Free Alternative to PStart JPE Edition and Jaunte PE

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Free Alternative to PStart JPE Edition and Jaunte PE

#1 Post by Michele13 »

Hello, a lot of years ago I discovered JauntePE and PStart JPE Edition and I loved them. Unfortunately the latest version of JauntePE60Nightly has a bug: when I start a program that saves changes to the registry it saves them in a badly shaped reg file. So every change to the option of 7-Zip (as an example) would not persist a restart. Are there other free alternatives to JauntePE to make virtualized portable applications? I read of Cameyo which is free, but some of you argue it's not good as:

1. Hosts packaged software even if it does not have the right to do so violating the EULA fo the products.
2. Sandboxed apps leave traces on the system.

Mostly people package the software in the wrong way. When I make a virtual package I usually edit it right after the capture making it store its changes under the executable folder and delete registry traces save the registry changes in a file. (See Screenshots attached)

Guess what? it still leaves traces! it creates a registry key: HKCU\Software\VOS\
Now, I know it saves its registry settings there before deleting theme. Eg: HKCU\Software\VOS\PStart
The software should check whenever the VOS key is empty and delete it if the assumption is true. Now I've achieved that by using PortableApps.com Launcher to make portable one of those programs.

I've programmed a Launcher in AutoIT that runs a open file dialog to run an application and waits for it to finish before it exits. Here's the source.

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#include <FileConstants.au3>
 #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
 Local $Run = FileOpenDialog("Execute Program", @ProgramFilesDir, "Application (*.exe)|All (*.*)" , $FD_FILEMUSTEXIST + $FD_PATHMUSTEXIST )
 RunWait($Run)
I sandboxed it as SandBox.exe

then I created a Launcher with PortableApps.com Launcher
I'll attach the program here.
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Re: Free Alternative to PStart JPE Edition and Jaunte PE

#2 Post by webfork »

Interesting stuff. A few quick notes:
  • As you may have noticed, the JPE forums haven't seen a lot of activity so I welcome your participation. Welcome to the forums.
  • I haven't worked much with JPE but I do a lot with licenses so one thing caught my eye here: as PortableApps has a share-and-share alike license (GPL) that means when you distribute modified versions of the program, you also distribute the source.
  • As you're a first time poster to the site, I have to note that neither of the included EXE files have VirusTotal ratings. That's to be expected with new programs but just something I have to point out.

    File / SHA256:
    PortableSandBox / 1262FDFB709D2C235C08B3E20039146320674562B1D9DBDA27A875F2E937F2BE[/url]
    SandBox.exe / CB51BE9E48DF2CEA406D4D084402D5C5C64082B1367EAFB569B23B0162A9F843
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Re: Free Alternative to PStart JPE Edition and Jaunte PE

#3 Post by Michele13 »

webfork wrote:Interesting stuff. A few quick notes:
  • As you may have noticed, the JPE forums haven't seen a lot of activity so I welcome your participation. Welcome to the forums.
  • I haven't worked much with JPE but I do a lot with licenses so one thing caught my eye here: as PortableApps has a share-and-share alike license (GPL) that means when you distribute modified versions of the program, you also distribute the source.
  • As you're a first time poster to the site, I have to note that neither of the included EXE files have VirusTotal ratings. That's to be expected with new programs but just something I have to point out.

    File / SHA256:
    PortableSandBox / 1262FDFB709D2C235C08B3E20039146320674562B1D9DBDA27A875F2E937F2BE[/url]
    SandBox.exe / CB51BE9E48DF2CEA406D4D084402D5C5C64082B1367EAFB569B23B0162A9F843
I did not change the source code of PortableApps.com Launcher so the source is intact.
Inside the portable app you can find the options that I've used to make the application portable. (look at /PortableSandbox/App/AppInfo/PortableSandbox.ini)
I've posted the source code of the program that I've virtualized.
I attach the link of the scan of the file that I've made with virus total.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/796a ... /analysis/

Looks like it has a detection ratio of 9/56. That's pretty high.. The app should be clean. I'm sorry if the archive does contain some old data. I forgot to clean it up. I attach an html file with the scan that I've made with regshoot. is this program portable?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/166 ... andBox.zip

Here's the virus scan of the Regshot.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4942 ... 473032106/

However. I found this comment on this website. the link included in the comments seems not trustworthy. does a JauntePE Beta version really exists?

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.p ... =#comments
rbon on 2014-09-18 15:22

Portable JauntePE 0.6.6 Beta
- web site: http://www.portable-jauntepe.com-about.com/
- download page: http://www.portable-jauntepe.com-about. ... nload.html
- direct download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jauntep ... p/download
The link above download the file JauntePE060Nightly.zip and if You unzip it and see changelog.txt:
- gui's file version to 0.6.4
- runtime's file version to 0.6.6
Author is Redlar.
if I'm not wrong the development of the software has stopped temporarily.

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Re: Free Alternative to PStart JPE Edition and Jaunte PE

#4 Post by webfork »

Michele13 wrote:I did not change the source code of PortableApps.com Launcher so the source is intact.
Understood - sorry for the confusion there.
Michele13 wrote:Looks like it has a detection ratio of 9/56. That's pretty high.. The app should be clean. I'm sorry if the archive does contain some old data. I forgot to clean it up. I attach an html file with the scan that I've made with regshoot. is this program portable?
I don't use regshot for portable analysis so I'll have to let someone else tackle that.
Michele13 wrote:the link included in the comments seems not trustworthy. does a JauntePE Beta version really exists?
Unfortunately the whole JPE structure is something that I haven't spent a lot of time on during my time here. Perhaps someone else on the forums can address this.

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