Hi. I was making preparations to change from Win7 to Win10 when I remembered that a couple of portable programs I use won't work with certain Windows Updates. Trying to open those programs after a rogue Update results in a message saying “The application was unable to load a required virtual machine component. Please contact the publisher of this application for more information.” The only way to cure this (apparently) is to uninstall the rogue Updates. (If you're interested, they are: KB3045999, KB3022345, KB3071756 and KB3060716. The last two came just a couple of weeks ago.) Having read that Win10 Updates are mandatory, I installed Win10 in a virtual machine and tried my portable program on it. As I feared, it gave the aforementioned error message. Looks like I'm sticking with Win7 then. But surely lots of folk use portable programs and many of these will no doubt be failing with Win10. Does anyone have any experience of this or perhaps know of a cure/workaround?
Every portable application I made myself with VMWare ThinApp 5, doesn't work anymore on Windows 10 (previously works perfect on Windows 8.1). But this is VMWare ThinApp issue and till now no upgrade is released by VMWare. I switch to Spoon Studio and recreate every portable with it. Now, all work perfect!
Almost all the programs on my PC, are portable. I like to keep them on D: drive, to keep windows 10 small. I have maybe forty or more and have not had a problem, with any of them.
Yes just a launcher as you say, it helps keep things organized if you have a lot of portables. There are a bunch of them, to choose from.
My thanks to those who suggested using portableapps. Tried it with my portable Splitter version 6.33 but with no success. My portable versions 7.01 and 7.02 DO work in Win10 (without the need of portableapps) so why 6.33 is affected by certain Win7 Updates (and Win10 in general) I'll probably never know. Having tried Win10 on a VM, I prefer the look of Win7 so will probably stay with it.