Create your own Portable applications with these easy steps

When you install most applications on a computer, it makes changes to the system and integrates itself. Windows applications, for example, pick a folder on your local hard drive, make entries in your registry and generally expects Windows to provide certain amenities so that it can do its job.

Create your own Portable applications

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Sites like PortableApps actually have pre-packaged applications that you can install directly to your USB drive. These apps, games, and utilities will run from your USB stick when you plug it into a computer(provided that they're on the operating system the programs run on). Aibek compiled an excellent list of 100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick that I would recommend checking out if you're looking for pre-packaged programs to put on your thumb drive.

So, you found a really cool application and there was no pre-packaged version of it anywhere on the internet that would install it to your USB drive. Looks like it's time to learn how to create a portable app for flash drive. Please note: I'm not referring to U3 flash drives; that's a different ballgame in several ways (even though they can be used much the same way).

The example application I'm going to make portable is Audacity, an open source audio editing program. You can download your own file, or follow along using Audacity (recommended for your first time) before you try this method on your own applications.

Right click your downloaded setup file (in my case, it's Audacity) and click "UniExtract here". Go ahead and specify a folder that you would like to extract the setup file to. A folder will be created with the extracted files inside. Open up that folder for the next step.

It won't work for everything, and there is some work involved depending on the app you are trying to make portable, but it is possible to make a lot of software portable yourself that we haven't officially released.

Yes, you can create your own portable App. Simple steps to follow:Step 1: Downloading ProgramsStep 2: Install Uniextract and WinrarStep 3: Uniextract FileStep 4: Archive FilesStep 5: Testing

What i need is to know is how can i make applications portable so i can run them from my usb or just copy them from my usb on pc and run, what dependency files application require, and what files and where specific application install?

And with this program (I use this because have no interference with any application) pack the program that you want to make portable. In wizard, first choose your reg-exe file after main programs file. Launcher will execute them with this order. And in setting choose "delete after terminate" will delete the extracted files on exit.

Apps requiring services to be installed on the host PC will often leave them behind.You must to know there are apps that are locked to specific PCs - Microsoft's recent versions of Office are a great example of this. They simply will not run when moved to another PC.Also, you'll need some tools for making portable app: cameyo, thinapp, boxedapp, portableapps, spoon, app-v and other. Portable applications will run from a flash drive, and from the computer.Good Luck!

It writes all local environmental variables to the log file log.txt. You can play around a bit by trying to writing files to an %APPDATA% subdirectory and see if you can make your project redirect it to a portable directory.

Portable app creator normally uses application virtualization technology to create a portable version of a software. A portable application does not require installation and can be brought to everywhere. How does portable app creator works? It usually scans the system before and after installing an application and analyses the changes. Then, it converts the installed files, DLLs, and registries into a single executable (.EXE) file.

If you are unable to find the portable version of a program and you wish to create one, you are at the right place. Here are 5 portable app creators to make any software portable. For Windows users only.

Cameo is a lightweight and robust portable app creator. It also has an extensive app library which includes over 300 popular virtual apps. Besides, you can store your apps in a cloud drive, so that you can download them from anywhere.

To start using Cameyo, you have to register for a free account and login. You can then download any portable apps from its library or add apps in your cloud drive. To create your own virtual application, you can either capture the application locally or online, which are both pretty easy to do.

Spoon Virtual Application Studio lets you to convert Windows-compatible software into self-contained virtual applications. Spoon Studio provides 4 ways to package your software into portable application:

Evalaze is compatible with Windows and Windows Server machines. Creating a portable app is easy by following the instructions given by the Evalaze assistant. It will first run a prescan to scan registry and file system before the installation of the application. Once the installation is completed, a post scan is performed to identify the changes on your system, in order to create a portable version of your application.

To avoid the hassle of creating portable applications from commonly used software, here are some portable app suites that collect hundreds of popular software and games. Apart from their large collection of portable apps, these portable app suites also help you to manage, update, and secure your downloaded apps.

Archive name -> Name of your portable program Compression method -> BestArchiving options -> Create SFX archive Now go to "Advanced" tab -> SFX OptionsRun after extraction -> Put name of your program .exe file (in my case its everest.exe)Go to "Modes" tab -> Unpack to temporary folder Silent mode -> Hide all Ok -> Ok

Not bad at all. I recommend checking out portableapps.com . The apps there are portable in the sense that is saves everything back to the drive it runs from. No registry changes, etc. I do like your approach, though. I personally prefer just running a lightweight Linux distro from my drive, and saving everything to it.

PortableApps.com has hundreds of free applications to choose from. From office suite to accessibility and security tools, from games to browsers and multimedia players, the portable apps store has it all.

You can start with a number of portable versions of your favorite browser (Chrome, Firefox or Opera), or a free office suite like LibreOffice Portable then for security, try ClamWin Portable for antivirus software on the go.

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12. After finishing the process, you will get your own portable application, which will run on any computer.Copy your portable app (in this example both Nightly.dat and exe) on a pen drive and run the exe from any computer.

Cameyo is a free application designed to create portable applications to run programs from anywhere. Upon launching Cameyo, it takes a snapshot of your system, asks you to install the application that you want to see as portable, and then takes the snapshot of the system to create portable applications. Once the portable version of the app is ready, you can uninstall the installed application and move the portable program to a USB drive or run on any computer running Windows operating system.

Step 6: Once you click the Install done button, Cameyo starts taking the snapshot of your system again, and the portable version of the application that you just installed will be ready in a few minutes.

Step 9: Select High Secured as the default file system modes, click Next, select a location to save your portable application, click Next button again, and finally, click Finish button to save the your newly created portable application.

Portable applications end up in the %ChocolateyInstall%/lib (i. e. C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey\lib) folder yes, but they get a "shim" to put them on the path of the machine. This behavior is very much to how Chocolatey works and is not configurable (the directory). Where the portable apps end up is still going to be %ChocolateyInstall%/lib no matter where you move the directory, unless a package itself unpacks the portable app elsewhere (as in the case of git-tfs).

The *.portable packages are the packages that will usually result in an executable on your path somewhere but do not get installed onto the system (Add/Remove Programs). Previously the suffixes *.tool and *.commandline have been used to refer to the same type of packages.

When you install portable apps that have executables in the package, Chocolatey automatically creates a "shim" file and puts that in a folder that is on the path. That allows you to run a portable application by asking for it on the command line.

For production-level scenarios, I couldn't justify giving up that level of control and trust to the internet in an organization. It's recommended that you copy and modify existing packages and/or create your own internal packages and host them internally. That way you can completely guarantee that an install/upgrade/uninstall will always work every time. See Security for more details.

Portable Apps is an open-source application launcher that allows you to run programs right from your flash drive. The launcher comes with a full suite of applications pre-installed. If you want to include your own applications, however, you must manually add them to the launcher.

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