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Old 07-14-2017, 03:14 PM
John Wagenseil John Wagenseil is offline
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Originally Posted by whulsey View Post
Got those and need to try one....someday! Will be following with interest.
"Speaking of Win 10, I hate the unzip and the photo and pdf printing in it. How do you get Win 10 to recognize 7Zip? I also need to get Adobe on there.
Sorry to derail the thread"

Does anyone have an answer for this yet?? I have to go through a work around ever time I want to open a zipped file.

https://portableapps.com
Paste the PortableApps Folder from the site above to the root of your Win10 C drive and add a shortcut to your desk top (you can put the folder anywhere, but root of C drive is convenient, and good if you want to save documents with extremely long file names in the Documents folder of the portable apps directory.)
Add 7Zip and one or more of the portable PDF readers (Sumatra, Foxit Reader, PDF Xchange Editor or Viewer, Evince) to the PortableApps Directory and any other of the portable programs you like from the Portable Apps site or from this site;
winPenPack - The Portable Software Collection
The portable programs take up less drive space than Adobe reader, and do a better render than the Win10 PDF viewer.
Winpenpack also has a directory but I have never tried using it on Win10.
Portable programs are not supposed to modify the Win10 directory or install anything on your computer except in their own folder.
The portable programs can run on their own without being in the PortableApps application, but it is easy to have them in one place and to be able to update them with one click (if you have winpenpack programs in the portable apps program, those will have to be updated manually)
If you like the programs you can donate a few dollars to the program developers. The programs are mostly shareware and donationware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donationware).
Some more about portable programs for paper modelers
Useful Software for Paper Modellers
Irfanview is very good for simple processing, conversion and printing of image files.
Google Chrome has a good PDF file creator.
There are portable versions of just about any type of program you will ever need.

I am getting used to using Win10, it is not as horrid as I had feared it would be, and has some interesting features. I copied the ISO file for Puppy Linus into the Win10 Hyper-V application, and cruise the internet using a browser in a virtual Linux program which can be deleted after the browsing session. I have not figured out if it is possible to permanently save anything downloaded inside a virtual OS.
Win10 recognizes all my old printers, it did not recognize old scanners.

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