Portable App Development

On some installers I get this message about testing installer integrity (or something to that extent) and I was wondering... What is that all about? does Windows look at the installer for viruses or something. Is this something the installer is supposed to do? Why does it only show up on some installers?

With the publication today of a security advisory from Microsoft regarding the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package, how is PortableApps going to handle updating all the apps that use this library? (I didn't look, but I assume there's more than a few).

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-035.mspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BTSz5z4kA0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsDkZD-fduQ&feature=related

I'm working on a Qt Creator Portable, but I am having some difficulty getting Qt Creator for find the files on the portable drive.

I've run RegShot to track file and registry changes. Qt Creator doesn't appear to use the registry at all, instead it uses an INI file. I've set up QtCreatorPortable.exe to modify the INI file to point to the portable installation, but it still doesn't find it. Where else might a program put settings information?

I'm trying my hand at creating a portable version of MUSHclient (mushclient.com) and I keep running into an error I can't figure out. Would appreciate any help in this matter. Here is the error when using the PortableApps Installer:

SetOutPath: "$INSTDIR\Other"
File: Descending to: "..\..\Other\Source\"
File: Returning to: "..\..\Other"
File: "..\..\Other\*.*" -> no files found.
Usage: File [/nonfatal] [/a] ([/r] [/x filespec [...]] filespec [...] |
/oname=outfile one_file_only)

I need a Thinstalled internet explorer 7 for my project. But what ever I do, the portable IE7 has disabled textboxes on a maschine where internet explorer 8 is installed!!! So no text can be entered in webforms, also no rightmouse menu and the aboutbox gives errors ..so its useless..
Any suggestions??

almost done creating vuze to a portable application...just need help fixing the configuration files and as far as i know after that is done im done with the program, but then again im not sure, again, as far as i know i am creating a vuze launcher, so all help is appriciated, and please feel free to help all you can

Hello, I am currently working on making multiple applications into portable apps, the only problem i am facing is that i would like to know what program to use to make a launcher, I would like to make a launcher for Halo Custom Edition that offers 2 options, one to run the main executable , and another to run it with some paramaters, it would probably look nice with a GUI of some sort, the rest will not need a GUI but for halo it would make it a lot easier and nicer.

Just made this empty ThinApp. What it does is, it will virtually start 'cmd.exe' from the host (So 'cmd.exe' isn`t actually included in the ThinApp). What the great thing is, it is possible to even install a program in to the virtual environment. This could be run from the flash-drive. What I done this weekend is to start 'Desktops' in the virtual environment, with this I could switch between the real localhost and the virtual environments located on my USB-stick, by a single click.

While the categories for the Portable Apps seem pretty logical, I see a lot of programs fall in the "Other" category for Utilities. (about 10!)

I also noticed that some of the categories didn't quite fit.

While it may seem like a lot to modify all of the existing apps to fit this category, it probably could just be implemented in new apps and app updates. Here's a little more of what I figured might have made more sense:

Accessibility
> On-Screen Keyboards
>> On-Screen Keyboard Portable
> Screen Magnifiers
>> Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable

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