Portable version

We have no plans for a portable version but if our users and customers want it, we will do it :

Well, so far only you have shown interest of a portable version, anyone else? :

Actually, only using facilities already designed into Power Tools, I made it portable some years ago. It was just an exercise, since I have no particular need for a portable version.

Because of this post, today I made PT X 1494 "portable." By portable, I mean it is installed to a flash drive which can be inserted into any Windows computer Macecraft supports, and Power Tools can run from the flash drive. Then the flash drive can be removed and used on a different computer to run Power Tools there. And so on, just one computer at a time. One does have to force an initial setup the first time it is run on each computer; the Cache, Backups, and Snapshots folders, and perhaps the Tasks folder must stay on the computer. They don't even exist on the flash drive. The Settings--Installation window is pictured below.

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Four items have to be manually setup on the flash drive before running the jv16pt setup. These are highlighted in this explorer window:

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@ jv16 ... Shall I post further details in case someone wants to try it?

Correct tullik, the reason for these settings being available in the program is that user could run the program from USB disk. However, since this can go really complex really fast (such as the USB disk writing failing while the program is still running), we do not officially support this. It's just something advanced users can do.

I don't know what is the exact definition of "portable version", my understanding is that it usually means a program that consists only of single executable file you can run from anywhere. Is this what you mean phmallet?

phmallet wrote

yes, that's it !

thanks.

Do you mean tullik's answer shows you how to make jv16 PowerTools portable, or that by portable you mean a version that only has a single executable file and no other files?

phmallet wrote: only has a single executable file and no other files

thx

Thus inquiry-only tool functions (e.g., no fix, clean, delete, remove, change, backup, restore, remembered settings, and so forth). I mainly use Power Tools for its diagnostic, inquiry-only capabilities (Windows sucks at that).

What use would you make of a portable version?

For me, a portable version would be a huge time savings. I work as a PC tech (I have 30 computers in my shop right now) and while the install process is 100% needed for an application that will be running on one computer regularly (as jv16 does now) for me, being able to pop open a jv16 portable from a single file, removing crapware, cleaning the registry, and clearing temp files, all without having to install the app on the client's computer would be awesome.

mattsb wrote

For me, a portable version would be a huge time savings. I work as a PC tech (I have 30 computers in my shop right now) and while the install process is 100% needed for an application that will be running on one computer regularly (as jv16 does now) for me, being able to pop open a jv16 portable from a single file, removing crapware, cleaning the registry, and clearing temp files, all without having to install the app on the client's computer would be awesome.

Thank you for your interest!

This topic has certainly caught our attention and we are well aware of the need for a lightweight (as we had some years ago for older versions) or even portable jv16 PowerTools. For now, we do not officialy support this use case scenario. In the while, as other users of our forum have proven, there are ways to obtain this behavior from our product. Even if they are not official methods, they can still work for you, depending on what you want to achieve.