Sunday, December 31, 2006

How To Create Your Own Portable Program

Haven't you always wanted to create your own portable program? Now, you can! Here's how:

Get Total Uninstaller 2.35.
Run the installer you want in Total Uninstaller.
Save the log to your desktop.
Get Portable Application Template.
Open up the NSI file.
Open up the Total Uninstaller log.
Copy all the Total Uninstaller registry entries to the PAT, separating them with ||.
Do the same with Settings Files and Settings Directories.
For icons, get Icons From File. Extract the icon from the main program. Alternatively, do a Google Images search.
Fill in the rest of the info.
Compile with NSIS. PortableNSIS also good.
Uninstall the original program with Total Uninstall.
Run the portable program.
Check to see if the registry entries and files are there.

You're done!