Make Any Program Portable on Windows 11

Make Any Program Portable on Windows 11
Today we will take a look at how to create a portable app in windows and run it from a USB drive.

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#windows11 #windows10 #tech #techtips

[US_Joe]

Cool -thanx Brian! I'm just curious of how it deals with window's registry settings? How could those entries be incorporated on a different computer? 👍👍👍

[all]

How does this work if some of the program is like in AppData or if it requires registry keys?

[EpicUnit]

and how make engima software itself portable

[bufordmaddogtannen]

Install the program you want in a sandboxie sandbox. Now you can either copy the sandbox from a computer to the next one, or you can simply retrieve the files from the sandbox program files directory and copy it on a USB stick.
Job done.

In the unlikely event you need DLLS, these can be copied within the same folder.
I have been doing something like this for 20 years. Sometimes you'll need to extract registry entries to keep the settings or to make the program happy when it starts.

[kreont]

Vauuuu that's i need some much. Portableapp doesnt work simply like that, Thanx

[DennisHolmberg-slhz]

Sounds a lot like Thinstall (which became ThinApp when VMWare bought them out in 2008).

[techwg]

When I last used a similar system, I had to run the installer for the software I wanted to make portable and that way it got all the registry and files and everything worked. If all you do with this is point it to something already installed, how does it know all the myriad areas of the registry it may have put things in?

[kablammy]

why did my comment get erased ? ? ?
my avast antivirus quarantined the boxed exe file so
i sent the ' boxed ' stand alone program that was made - to virustotal website and it showed 10 antivirus progs that reported it as a virus
- i put that info in a comment on this video and it got erased ...
why ?

[PHOTOREACTION]

Xm! It doesn;t work with major programms like Photoshop or others that they need licence.Only for some free utilities? Xm...

[debeeriz]

can i do it with photoshop or mocrosoft office and use it on another machine

[DonzLockz]

Brilliant, I needed this ages ago. Thanks!😊

[outerlimit]

Have tried your method and same app for obs- studio portable creation it gives error " Can't load library libcurl.dll" while with some other adobe app like "Adobe Xd " portable creation different runtime library files loading error. can you make video on these?

[Pizzpott]

ESET deletes this as on as it is downloaded. If I disable ESET I can then install it without issues (after re-downloading the file as restoring it from quarantine kills it anyway). Then with ESET running, it kills and deletes it. Now as I trusted this file to be clean I added the download folder and the installation folder into the 'Performance Exclusions ' section of ESET with the \* at the end, so all files and folders were now free of all the types of scan ESET does. Uninstalled the Enigma Virtual Box and the tried to download it - it was immediately deleted. Closed ESET, installed it, Opened ESET, run it - deleted!

So this app flags antivirus despite being told not to, it is actually trying to connect to the interest...which is why ESET is still deleting it, it is being stopped in HIPS.

Oddly enough I got it installed by disabling ESET on my Windows 7 Desktop, and after adding the installation directory for this app into the same exclusions - it works fine. But ESET is no longer supported in Windows 7, so it is obviously a symptom of the newer versions. I have submitted it to ESET with a description of the issue.

[peterdavis]

Can you put it on a flash drive then install the program it into the windows Program folder on a different computer without the original program's installer?

[mikejoe]

I followed your steps for Partition Wizard Tool successfully, but when I run the portable version is says " Error: Failed to load configure file". How to fix it please.

[stevem]

Cracking vid, as ever, is there a program that can make normal programs that install ISO, as I'd very much like to make Fabsautoback 6 Pro an ISO as the walkthrough to make it bootable is rather complicated at least for me! Thanks either way, hoofing vids...

[Rob_III]

How is this different than just creating a zipfile from a folder? This may work with some basic software (or software that is designed to be portable (too)) but in a lot of circumstances this won't work at all. There's more to a program than just the files in it's respective folder in "Program Files". There's appdata, shared folders of the vendor that may contain DLL's and other files that are shared with other products, registry entries, configuration data that may be stored in a gazillion of places etc.

[CostasSachpazis]

Interesting and Thank you very much. However, although I followed the procedure you showed step by step very carefully, it did not work for me. Any reasoning, please?

[sherkhan_]

Out of curiosity, have you tested these boxed apps with VirusTotal? If yes, what were the results?

[room]

is the portable making app portable, or can you use the portable making app to make itself portable ? /runs ...