[Paint.net Portable]

True, but wouldn't it be so wonderful is the application itself had the option of being natively portable?  A lot of apps do this using a custom command arguemtn -portable or something along those lines.

[Paint.net Portable]

Hi all,

Registered just to post in this thread.  Paint.NET is really fantastic software, but it's a truly a real bummer that there's no true portable version available. Liberkey, frankly, sucks and it uses an old version.

Portable paint.net is not as bad, but outdated.

 

Following Ego Eram's instructions above does not work:

The app writes the folders: "SessionData" and "Optimization" to the C:\Users\miabear\AppData\Local\paint.net  folders.

In addition, the following regsitry keys are written and re-written:

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Consider this a desperate plea to the developer. Please give the legions of loyal users of your software what they want! The portability option.  While you're at it, perhaps an option to download a "ZIP" or "RAR"ed version of your software with no installer?

 

I can't believe such an amazing piece of software doesn't have this option yet.