by John on Jul.04, 2010, under Computing
This is simple and I thought you guys might enjoy it. It should work for most any program but I can’t guarantee it. I also can’t remember where I learned this but I’ll try to so I can give credit where credit is due. Just follow this step by step. It’s really quite easy. You need two free tools.
Just get the free trial of Winrar ( if you don’t already have it ) . Universal Extractor is free and can be found at www.legroom.net. So go ahead and install those and lets rock!!
a) Find your favorite program.
b) Make a new file where you like, and name it. (ie “my File”).
c) Now right click on the setup file of the program you’d like to be portable, and pick “extract with uniextract to a subdirectory”. Extract it into the file you just made.
d) Open the new file you made ( “my file”), and find the .exe file that runs the app. You should see a bunch of files there. Highlight all these files. ( Note: if you only see 1 file, then repeat step (c) on this file. Now you should see several files. Highlight them all).
e) Right click and choose ” add to archive”. Name your archive and select “create SFX archive”. Choose “best” under the category “compression method”.
f) Click the advance tab. Click SFX options. Now type the name of your executable in “run after exraction” under the “setup program category”.
Almost done!
g) In the “Modes tab” click “unpack to temporary folder and hide all”.
h) In the “Update tab” click ”overwrite all files”. Click ok and that’s it.
You’ll now see a single self extracting file that is the .exe . You can copy this to your memory stick or external hard drive and use it anywhere. cool eh!
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July 14th, 2010 on 11:39 am
Wow that’s handy info thanks!
And you know, now that I know about this site I will visit it often. I’m sure it gets updated very often. I hate it when o visit a site day after day that never gets anything new added to it. It will probably never happen here.
July 15th, 2010 on 4:39 am
You crack me up man! I’m trying I really am. The “My blog” page has been getting a bit more action. I really like having two blog pages here. When my can of crappy runs dry for this page, I just open my other can of crappy for the My Blog page! This way, I hope to always have something crappy for ya. Wish me luck! lol.