Register extensions with a Portable Application

If your like me you carry a thumbdrive around with you with your favorite programs. Some programs have profiles (firefox) and some are just great to have around for emergencies. Whatever the reason you may find it purposeful to link the program and extension so when you click on a file it will open with it. Most of the time installers take care of this for you but alas most portable programs do not.

Step 1 Locate your extension

The first thing you need to do is navigate to the folder where the program is, then click on Tools at the top of the window. From there click on the File Types tab.

Here we're also going to see if a filetype already exists for the extension so click on the first item in the list then start to type our your extension, for example "rar". If it exists it will scroll down to it.

Comments

[Monty Kensicle]

That is a great idea, but unfortunately you'll need to do this for each computer that will be running the portable software. Because you're changing settings on the computer you're using, not the portable program's settings.