Fragmentation is reduced on your drive because it is only 1 file instead of multiple.ĥ. Because your app is essentially 'frozen', if you make a mistake you won't run your app setup.Ĥ. These apps run in the computer's temp folder instead of the flash drive, which helps save drive life.ģ. Having only a single file is much easier to manage than having multiple files, even if they are in coherent directories.Ģ. I use this method over the portable apps here for the following reasons:ġ. I am not really creating a portable app, I am simply creating a wrapper around an application that is already stealth.
Now before you say that WinRAR doesn't make portable apps, I understand that that is why I put quotes around the word created. Hello, I am new here, and I just wanted to share my way of 'creating' my portable apps using WinRAR's SFX option.