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I released version 0.7.5 of WinCompose: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/releases/tag/v0.7.5 Two changes from the release notes will affect users of the portable version, hopefully in a good way: Support for .NET 4.0 means that Windows 8 users will no longer need to download and install .NET...

Well, we dislike .NET apps because .NET may not be installed in the host computer. As a result, .NET apps are always less portable than native apps. See http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/dot-net-portable-apps . I understand, and the situation pains me, too. However the efforts to develop a good GU...

I just made this March 10, 2015 update: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/releases The number of sequences in the description can be changed from “more than 1,600” to “more than 2,000”. There is a new GUI for symbol browsing which is a lot nicer and better organised, it would be nice if you c...

I am Baas wrote:Thanks for stopping by... a portable version would be awesome. Thank you.

Here it is: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompos ... -0.6.8.zip Any feedback is welcome!

Hi — WinCompose author here. I was not familiar with portable applications, but I’m willing to do the necessary changes. The next version (probably 0.6.8) will provide a portable version that does not touch %AppData% if not installed.