Bob, with the Portable Apps that had Installers, especially the genuine PortableApps.com Apps, there was no problem. With those, it was just BAMM! They were installed.
Heck, even IZArc2Go, which isn't a genuine PortableApps.com App ... that one also installed with no problem because it had an Installer.
The problems I initially had was with the various Portable Apps that did NOT have Installers, but rather, came Zipped. Before I used to use the PortableApps.com Platform, I had no problems with those Portable Apps that came zipped because I would simply extract them onto my Flash Drives ... create a Shortcut to the Desktop and I'd be good to go. With using the PortableApps.com Platform on the other hand, I encountered a different situation. Oh sure, I had no problem extracting the Apps into the PortableApps Folder in the PortableApps.com Platform. The problem I was having was getting the PortableApps.com Platform GUI to acknowledge and display the Apps on its Menu. I kept missing the correct syntax of the Paths initially.
WHY? Because the various Apps would unzip differently and were throwing me off.
For example, FastStone Image Viewer would unzip with its stuff in an FSViewer42 Folder.
The same with Revo Uninstaller. It would unzip with its stuff in a revouninstaller-portable Folder. When I'd add those Folders to the Path after E:\PortableApps ... another Folder of each would be created. Thus, there'd be an FSViewer42 Folder with an FSViewer42 Sub Folder. Likewise, there'd be a revouninstaller-portable Folder with a revouninstaller-portable Sub Folder. These would of course throw off the Path and the Platform couldn't find the Apps' .exe Files.
Then the other Apps --- CCleaner, Recuva and Speccy did NOT unzip with a Main Folder.
So, I had the brilliant idea of putting for example:
\CCleaner Portable 2.36.1233\CCleaner.exe after
PortableApps. Well, a "CCleaner.exe" Folder was also created in addition to the Main Folder. Of course, that didn't work. I just kept missing and missing. I did who knows how many deletions of Folders and performed who knows how many Redos. But, I eventually figured it out.
Of course,
NOW it makes sense.
NOW it is simple.
For some reason it wasn't yesterday. DOH!
My thinking was just temporarily off yesterday.