Portable App Development

By default, Portable Firefox checks for updates from Mozilla. If a user accidentally applies a Mozilla auto-update to his Portable Firefox, this breaks the portable-ness because Mozilla's updaters typically touch the registry etc while installing.

This has actually happened to me once, and left my Windows complaining that the default browser in U:\Internet\Firefox\App\Firefox could not be found when I removed the USB drive. *sheepish*

Hi community, and sorry by my bad english.
Is possible giveme help to portablize one aplication because I donta understando the guide ofered.
Thanks by help and cumplements to commnity.
I wait for help.

I am trying to add a custom page to a PA.c generated installer (0.91.5) but when I get to the custom page the Back, Next and Cancel buttons are inactive and I have to use task manager to kill the install. Here is the code that I am trying this out with which is almost a direct copy from one of the example files included with NSISPortable.

!include LogicLib.nsh
!include nsDialogs.nsh

XPStyle on

Page license
Page custom nsDialogsPage

Var BUTTON
Var EDIT
Var CHECKBOX

!macro CustomCodePostInstall

	Call nsDialogsPage
	
	CustomCodePostInstallEnd:	
!macroend

I can guess what you're thinking.

1) Illegal to do a portable Windows OS
2) A Virtual Machine of Windows would be too big and slow
3) A Virtual Machine can't be portable due to kernel drivers

I think we can get around these issues, read on...

This is my first post and I'm very new to portableapps.com so don't drill me too hard if this is way off. I'll lay out my idea and you can let me know. I'm not putting this in requested apps, as I actually plan on developing this if it sounds feasible.

This may be a stupid question, but how can one create a truly self-contained portable executable using ThinApp?

Each time I try to create a ThinApp version of a game (Fallout 1-2, if you must ask), it creates a single .EXE. When you open said EXE it generates a mess of files: Registry.tvr.backup, Registry.rw.tvr.lck, Registry.rw.tvr, and a directory called "%ProgramFilesDir%".

Am I missing something? How do I make a portable version of an app that doesn't need to generate these files outside of itself when opened?

Thanks in advance! Love the site!

As title say, I tried to run it as portable after installation it work but have some problems...
anyone can help?

NSISPortable 2.44
Nsis7z plug-in

Single volumne 7-Zip archive could be extract by this code:
File "ArchiveName.7z"
Nsis7z::ExtractWithDetails "ArchiveName.7z" "Installing package %s..."
Delete "$OUTDIR/ArchiveName.7z"

How do I extract multivolume 7-Zip archive using Nsis7z plug-in in NSIS Installer? File name is file.7z.001, file.7z.002, file.7z.003.

This question is mainly for John.

I was looking at PostBox today, and it looks quite promising, and it's based off of mozilla, which brings me to my questions. I know you work with Mozilla with FF and T-bird, and the licensing is similar.

Here's PostBox's Licensing. Can I make this portable, or do I have to get permission from them first?

Thanks,

-Gizmokid2005

Hi there im new and i just would like to ask if its possible to make customizable categories for the applications

for exable a category Media where u can put all ur players etc...
or graffics for gimp etc
office applications etc...

Ty and keep up the good work

I'm unable to compile the PHP version of Eclipse Portable.

I get this error.

MakeNSIS v2.45 - Copyright 1995-2009 Contributors
See the file COPYING for license details.
Credits can be found in the Users Manual.

Processing config: 
Processing plugin dlls: "C:\Users\Brandon\Desktop\EclipsePortableVersions\Other\PortableApps.comInstaller\App\nsis\Plugins\*.dll"
 - ExecDos::exec
 - ExecDos::isdone
 - ExecDos::wait
 - FindProcDLL::FindProc
 - InstallOptions::dialog
 - InstallOptions::initDialog
 - InstallOptions::show
 - LangDLL::LangDialog
 - MoreInfo::GetComments