• Welcome to Support Forum: Get Support for Patch My PC Products and Services.
 

Searching "portable" in the app library, doesn't find several PORTABLE apps

Started by adnavcn, January 29, 2026, 04:19:03 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

adnavcn

1. search for "portable" in the search field, of the "all applications" section, of the App library
2. you will see that several portable apps, like "sysinternals suite", or "BD Rebuilder", for instance will not appear

expected results:
that all the apps that are portable would appear in the results

actual result:
only some apps appear, not all of them

dking02

If you are specifically interested in searching for portable apps, change the app type filter for the search at the top of the screen from "All Apps" to "Portable Apps" and then enter a name or vendor string/substring if needed in the text box but without the word "portable".

The word "portable" is actually NOT part of the name attribute of an app. The display name you see for an app on the screen is generated by the Home Updater software appending the word "portable" in yellow font to the name of the app when the value of the app's attribute IsPortable = "true". Since "portable" is not part of the app name, a search for apps with "portable" in their names will not return most of the portable apps in the App Library. An exception to this behavior is for portable apps which also have a non-portable version.