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Personally I understand that after so many hours of development to create and update such a great software (I literally use it multiple times every week) you look for a way to make some money so you can continue to spend time maintaining and updating it.

I have to agree it is somewhat unusual ...

The portable version seems to work only if there is an Internet connection when you first run it.

I tested it in Windows safe mode without networking and from a Win PE (bootable USB for troubleshooting purpose) and was not able to make it work... same install.dat issue. But when trying again from ...

Same here...
This is very annoying indeed.
I hope you can find a way to fix it and make it really portable.

Thanks !