Portable App Development

I have many many portable apps with vmware's thinapp, but is it legal to distribute these programs?:

1. 7-zip(one file)
2. Audacity beta (one file)
3. CCleaner (one file)
4. steam (game thing) (one file)
5. Teamviewer (one file)
6. Utorrent (one file)

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all of these programs are free, none have been modified at all from their original state (except obviously crammed into a single exe file) and they all have proper credits or creator info and/or company stuff somewhere in there.

Due to the fact that some developers are not satisfied with the PA.c Launcher (I won't name any names, but I don't think it's much of a secret), I propose two (or more if I have missed anything) alternate formats. PortableApps.com Format will of course begin to use the PA.c Launcher when it is released (I'm assuming that was the plan). The two other formats would be:

Custom NSIS Format - Used for packages that use custom NSIS launchers and (optional) installers (the PA.c installer would be allowed*, but so would a custom installer).

Which tool for watching ? (and printing) .... registry changes, new files and folders, system changes .... when installing new app ?

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I use Revo Uninstaller Pro (but that can only fully uninstall and removes all traces behind programs)

but not a list of changes after installation
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Recommend some easy-to-use and free tool.

That could help you (devs) on new requested apps from us (users) to notifing you
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I am attempting to write a NSIS launcher for a portable App. I have created the launcher temporarily with a debug mode to assist me inknowing where i am going wrong.

So here is the problem, I launch the launcher and get an error message.

The Log of the file states:

Usage: rednotebook.exe [options] [journal-path]

rednotebook.exe: error: no such option: -c

My question is is this an error in my launcher or does it relate to the specific program I am launching?

Any help would be appreciated!

So I have this App made portable just in time for tomorrow what you all think?

April Fool Portable available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/vf2nsrtesting/files/April%20Fools%20Por... The ,mdm5 is 7d16495d78d7cdcfacb186885b91e56> Download is 649kb installed is 916 kb

I am trying to use the installer.ini to extract a local file upon installation. I am having a major hassle in the syntax in calling the DownLoadURL from the PA drive. In other words I want it to point to the PA drive/AppName/AppDir/File.zip?

Any Help?

here is the latest Intaller.ini that does not work

[Source]
IncludeInstallerSource=true

[DownloadFiles]

DownloadURL=///"%PAL%":/CasinoBlackJackPortable/App/Data/CSBJ.zip
"

DownloadName=CSBJ.zip
DownloadFileName=CSBJ.zip
DownLoadMD5=46ea7b62718609bf6361368f79e24d53
AdditionalInstallSize=2600

I work in a place that deals with adults with special needs. After trying to setup 5 different computers to have identical settings for one of the participants, I started to think of my little USB device, and playing around with how I would go about doing this...

I am making ScummVM Portable (if this already exists, lets say I'm updating it)

Here is my source : http://www.mediafire.com/?zwnyyjzyngu

The launcher executable is successfully made but when I run it, ScummVM wouldn't show up. If you want to test it, here are the locations of the files:

App
App\Theme
App\Games
App\Extra
App\ScummVM
All files from Install Directory goes to App\ScummVM

I've been working on "mobilizing" NetBeans 6.8. I have got it running off my USB thumb drive in a PAF directory structure and just completed an initial launcher.
There are a few things I have to add to it yet, like file backups/restores, since this is my first launcher.
I could use some input though on a few issues before I go much further.

Could someone explain to me the differences between:

C:\Documents and Settings\Tim\Application Data
and
C:\Documents and Settings\Tim\Local Settings\Application Data

In my testing of portable applications I have found that many leave files/folders behind in:
...Tim\Local Settings\Application Data
which can be deleted without note

Some however leave files/folders behind in:
...\Tim\Application Data
which are backed up by Windows System Restore.

The implication is that Windows considers the files in:
...Tim\Application Data
more important\critical\worthy of backing up