Read How to Manually Create a Program Launcher for an interesting approach (the approach I'm using).Then simply right-click the shortcut and select 'pin to start menu' (Vista), or drag the shortcut to the start menu. Or go to your portable apps folder, right-click on the main application for the portable app (usually it's the one with a recognizable icon and a large file size), and select 'Create Shortcut' or 'Send to > Desktop'.Whereas, PortableApps Suite type launchers automatically search its PortableApps folder and add shortcuts for you after you refresh or restart the launcher (just as long as you create individual folders for all your portable apps). PStart, for example, allows you to drag and drop EXE files and automatically create a shortcut in its launcher. The easiest way is to create a shortcut in a portable launcher (or the portable launcher that comes with a suite of portable programs).In any case, after you get the portable app functional, you must make a shortcut to it: I suggest creating a sub folder for each program within your portable folder or moving its existing folder to your portable folder (as long as they allow for relative paths a few don't and would quit working if you move them around freely). Step 2: It's a good idea to create a folder for your portable apps, if you haven't already. But sometimes you choose portable as an option during installation (Foobar music player comes to mind). Other download formats usually have a special launcher (such as the downloads for LiberKey).If the downloaded file ends with PAF.EXE, just double-click it and install it to a folder of your choice (and if you copy over the previous version of a program it even deletes the older version first).Right-click the ZIP folder > 'Extract All.', or double click on it if you associate archive files with something like 7-Zip. EXE files run 'as is', or they self-extract after you double-click them.Usually it's a regular file name ending with EXE, ZIP, or PAF.EXE (usually, but not always, without words like 'setup' in the download file name). Installation TipsStep 1: At each download site make sure to get the 'portable' or 'standalone' version.

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