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JohnTHaller wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:12 am For folks who'd like it automated, I added dfgPortable, an automatic portable installer for Defraggler: https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/dfgportable

Thanks, mate. I appreciate your work!

JohnTHaller wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:40 am

vevy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 7:03 pmCan't we keep "the last portable version"? They don't seem to be getting any attention anyway, so they might as well be the last actual versions.

Redistribution of most Piriform apps is prohibited by the license agreement.

I see. Thanks.

I'm fairly sure they have a no-redistribution license so these are going offline unless we can find another option. Can't we keep "the last portable version"? They don't seem to be getting any attention anyway, so they might as well be the last actual versions. Speccy, Recuva, and Defragg...

It seems Piriform (Avast) removed the portable option (same with Recuva, etc).

Midas wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 3:15 am

vevy wrote: ↑It started asking for a "free product key". Wants email.

From past experience, let me tell you that disposable addresses work alright.

I don't want to let it connect in the first place.

It started asking for a "free product key". Wants email. "Trial" can be reset by deleting \SoftMaker\Settings\ofwfo18config.ini although you'd have to redo a couple of settings (or copy FirstDayTime and FirstDayHash from the newly generated file into your old one and overwrite th...

Midas wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:20 am Even though I always tried to setup MS formats as the defaults, whenever that didn't happen and, for instance, SoftMaker's own ones were used instead

The ShellNew key in the registry points to SoftMaker's templates for their own formats, if that's the problem.

So it gets updated to 2018?

Thanks, but I meant that the official portable method doesn't include the hunspell dictionaries (.aff and .dic) already packaged in the installer and are extracted by Universal Extractor (Twice). Simply leave the ones under \inst\ and they will work. The ones under SoftMaker aren't recognized. So, s...

I am interested by the statement of vevy on September 11th that Softmaker FreeOffice (2018) can be made portable and helpfully he gives some instructions to use. For many years Softmaker Office (both paid and free versions) have included a utility to make a portable version which works very well. I...

No problem.
Also, please check my updated post above.

Update of Sept. 5: FreeOffice can now save in DOC, XLS and PPT formats ... FreeOffice TextMaker can now save in OpenDocument Text format Tried it. Things look good. Edit: It does attempt to connect on startup every time, even when update check is turned off. Turns out my firewall was silently blocki...