

So the first step is to find the URL of the app in the online Microsoft Store.

We are going to use the Microsoft ToDo app as an example of how you can download and install apps without the store, but you can use this for any app of course. With the help of the online Microsoft Store, an URL converter, and a little bit of PowerShell you can install any app on your computer without the store. So how can you install these kinds of apps on your Windows 10 device without store? IT departments often remove the Microsoft Store from the devices to prevent users from installing all kinds of apps.īut some apps, like Microsoft ToDo app for example, are only available through the store. Some of them you may need to change, some not.With Microsoft Store, you can easily install apps on your Windows 10 device, just like with Google Play or the Apple App Store. a lot of inspiration, where to find "non-portable" things, is to look into tmpl-files inside a QGIS installation.

(I put a directory on my on my USB-Stick), QGIS also uses %APPDATA%\Local\Temp to save temporary files, so I start QGIS with %APPDATA% pointig to a path on my stick as well. If you want to use the same QGIS profile on any computer you can use the start option -profiles-path to point to a certain directory, were your profile will be read from.Further some things in QGIS depend on absolute pathes, like many executables in pythons script directory, like pip3.exe.That needs administrator privilege and i was not able to place it in PATH. The only issue i had so far is opencl.dll, which causes python errors in some cases if it is not "updated" by QGIS.They need to be put into the bin-, or any directory in the PATH-Variable. Microsoft runtimes: There is a way to extract the vc-runtime dlls, using lessmsi see here, in german.Some of the steps/problems that should be considered: I run QGIS from an USB-Stick, "basically" portable.
