Portable App Development

Please don't just tell me it's not possible, but how would I go about making a launcher for either Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger to make it portable? I'm not planning to distribute either program in a package or anything of the sort, but I wish to make modifications for my own personal use.

Is there a way to make one of these portable, without altering the original programs, therefore not crossing legal lines? Again, I'm not planning to make a distribution, and since I'm stating it here, no one on this forum can be held accountable for steering me in the right direction. I would appreciate any help you guys can provide

Hello,

I have a inventory based program that I would like to run from my flash drive. The program is completely freeware. It gives me the option to install on any drive. If I choose my flash drive I get a lot or path related errors. Could someone make this program run off a flash drive? I would upload the program and it would be of use to the community here if anyone could correct these path or directory path related errors.

This is a download link to the file good for 5 to 7 days:

Change your Background and Run PStart, also has a called script you can use.

Download Link:
http://www.uploading.com/files/4RBE55A7/LaunchFromPortv1.4_Setup.exe.html

Download Mirror:
http://rapidshare.com/files/2915267/LaunchFromPortv1.4_Setup.exe

Size: 806kb
MD5 Hash: EE9C27DAA5E6A2AB4D73F582D52E2357

ChangeLog:

Launch From Port:

Finale and Farewell!!

As this is not really a big or Hard to do project (I am leaving it as v1.4. . . anyone feel free to download the source code and do as you want, re release it as your name too (It's just a basis for others to build on)

Nightwolf81

Here is a quick and easy method for anyone interested in making Simple File Shredder portable.

1. Head over to scar5 and download sfs v3.2 (http://www.scar5.com/index.htm)

2. Head over to legroom.net and download universal extractor (http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Open_Source&file=inde...)

3. Use Universal Extractor to extract the contents of sfs_setup.exe

4. From the extraction take simplefleshrd.exe (/), regsvr32.exe (/$SYSDIR), and secdel.dll (/$SYSDIR) and place them in a seperate folder called "Simple File Shredder Portable" (or whatever really)

This tiny app will change the wallpaper in windows while you are using the removable media (as soon as media is ejected or removed it'll change back to old one)

Read the readme for more details.

download: http://mihd.net/70v1mt just click 'download' (hard to find I know)

enojy your personal look!!!

LaunchFromPort: NEWER NEWER NEWER

Moved to new Thread/FRED:

https://portableapps.com/node/3626

Hi,

I have built a new Sunbird Portable using the new launcher from the portable firefox and the sunbird 0.3 release. I have tested it quickly and everything seems to function and I can't find any entries in the registries so I am happy with it.

This question is really for John, Do you want me to zip it all up and give it to you so that it can be given a version number, tested and released on the site?

Thanks
Jason

www.opera-usb.com is the Opera app. for portables.

What I need to convert any portable app to U3 app?

Like Gimp and other's...

I have some applications that I want to make portable (Mainly Maple - a symbolic algebra package). They currently run fine off of my flash drive with no modification, but they are writing to registry and using various dlls etc. Will a launcher using NSIS be enough to get this working at a simple level?
Will just deleting all the registry keys it makes at the end work?

In a launcher I found on these forums for CCleaner, the launcher also registers and unregisters all the dll files associated with the program - do I need to do this to make it portable?

In this section of code,

CheckRunning:

I just wrote up a short batch script that uses 7zip's encryption to pack up portablefirefox's data folder. Since running firefox from the USB gives such a perfomance hit, my script basically copies the portablefirefox folder to c:\temp & extracts the data folder. When I'm done browsing, I tell it to pack up the data folder back to my thumb drive & delete everything else. It can use a keyfile, or a manual password as I want it to.

I imagine such a thing would be easy to officially implement. It's only a 10 line script which anybody with a bit of programming experience could do. I can post it here if anyone wants it.