Portable App Development

So I am trying to make Steam Portable for my own personal use.
My Launcher.ini specifies RunAsAdmin=try. I have also tried force and compile-force with no success.
The registry key at HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Valve writes the proper value to launch Steam Portable, however it does not restore the value on exit. The host value is seemingly lost as it does not restore and is not stored at HKCU\Software\PortableApps.com. This causes the host Steam installed to detect a corruption and it will reinstall itself.

I regularily build Apps for my local PortableApps Launcher installation - of software not officially available through the Portableapps App Directory.
Can I offer them in the forums here?

Hello

I found the source of a thing bugging me since ver 3.4. According to the docs you can define an initial selection:
nsDialogs::SelectFolderDialog title initial_selection

So this should fix it but I can't verify because I can't compile it
It's in line 241:
nsDialogs::SelectFolderDialog /NOUNLOAD "Directory" $INSTALLAPPDIRECTORY

Hello, thank you for the software! i love it !

However i would like to suggest few improvements that would make a great software even better!

1) make the software available to autostart at loggon (its a bit annoying to have to start it yourself every time, and sometimes i forget which makes a daily reminder useless if the program isn't running)

Hi,

Is there any guideline for app developers to write their apps in better way to make them portable easier? I mean, what the developers should
pay attention when they are starting to develop a software?

thank you

Hello, everyone. For my first post on the PortableApps.com Forum, I am going to share a method that I have figured out that allows you to portablize apps that don't run from their base directory (for those who have the know-how, I just create a dynamic shortcut to the .exe using a batch file then convert the batch file into an exe so portableapps can see it). Before I go into detail, there are a few prerequisites for the apps that this method will work on:

More apps are requiring SSE2 support (Chrome, Opera, Firefox, etc) and yet some are still supporting an older OS like XP or Vista that may be more likely to be running on older chips (Firefox). Even though the chips are over a decade old, some are still in use. For apps where the app itself supports an older OS but does not support an older chip, here is code you can add to your custom.nsh file for a PortableApps.com Launcher for the app to alert to that effect:

Original discussion https://portableapps.com/node/54905

If I use File Explorer to look around an app's folder and then go to the PortableApps folder the app folder remains highlighted. If I try to uninstall it runs for awhile then gives the error "Unable to Uninstall" the empty app folder remains. Selecting the app and choosing uninstall completes the removal.

Tried this on BlenderPortable and BalabolkaPortable with the same result.

At work they recently updated our security software (McAfee) and restricted user access to the Temp folder. Because of this it is causing pretty much all of my portable apps to not start (Notepad++, Gimp, 7-zip, etc.) throwing up an error that states "Another instance of [AppName] Portable is starting. Please wait of it to start before launching again." There are only a few apps that will run, Firefox being one of them. Has anybody else encountered this error or does anybody know of any work arounds?