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What’s the Difference Between a Portable and Non-Portable App?

Posted: Nov 11, 2024

Updated: Nov 18, 2024

A portable app in the Home Updater is an application that doesn’t actually install on your PC. Instead, portable apps download into the folder you select in the “Portables Location” as shown in the screenshot below.

Portable apps will download as an EXE or ZIP file directly. We will only detect and update portable apps that were originally downloaded through the Home Updater.