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Why aren't all applications 'portable'?

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Mar 15, 20264908 views
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I've recently been trying to 'install' stuff a lot less on my Windows machine (I hate installers - I need to know where programs put stuff...), choosing to use portable or standalone versions of applications instead. I put them all in a 'Programs' dir on a drive separate from my Windows partition, ā€¦

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Installers are a result of years of evolution and a little bit of (simplified) history helps understand why they do what they do.. The windows 3.1 model suggested config.ini style configuration files per application with supporting shared libaries gā€¦

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