stripping down Arduino-IDE for quickest possible starting

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Hi everybody,

I want to adjust the colorscheme of the Arduino-IDE. It seems that a new start is nescessary each time if a color-value has been changed. Though my usual Arduino-IDE has quite a lot of additional libraries which slow down the start of the IDE.
For adjusting the colors I would like to have a version of the Arduino-IDE that starts as quick as possible
So what folders can I delete and the IDE will still start?

Or is there another way of re-viewing changed colors?

best regards Stefan

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A quick way to get a minimal installation of the Arduino IDE is to run it in portable mode:

That will cause it to no longer use the standard folders that contain Boards Manager installed boards and sketchbook.

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Some other tips might include
1)
Do not check for updates
2)
Remove (temporarily) all installed libraries from the libraries directory.

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Hi pert and steretje,

thank you for answering. Somehow I'm doing something wrong with the portable installation
My portable installation does not work independent of the Arduino-"standard"-installation

I downloaded the file arduino-1.8.13-portable.zip into the folder
D:\Test-Arduino

Then I u used 7zip to unzip into folder
D:\Test-Arduino\arduino-1.8.13-portable

I changed to folder
D:\Test-Arduino\arduino-1.8.13-portable\arduino-1.8.13

where the Arduino.exe is located

E:\Test\arduino-1.8.13-Farbtest\arduino-1.8.13\arduino.exe

If I start this arduino.exe and open preferences I can see that it uses the file

C:\Users\Stefan\AppData\Local\Arduino15\preferences.txt

which is my standard-installation.

So something additional has to be done that the

E:\Test\arduino-1.8.13-Farbtest\arduino-1.8.13\arduino.exe

is using the preferences.txt-file that is located here

E:\Test\arduino-1.8.13-Farbtest\arduino-1.8.13\lib\preferences.txt

or whereever it must be located to make it working really independent.

best regards Stefan

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StefanL38:
I downloaded the file arduino-1.8.13-portable.zip into the folder

I've never heard of this file before. Where did you download it from it?

StefanL38:
I changed to folder
D:\Test-Arduino\arduino-1.8.13-portable\arduino-1.8.13

where the Arduino.exe is located

E:\Test\arduino-1.8.13-Farbtest\arduino-1.8.13\arduino.exe

You forgot to do the one essential step from the instructions: create a folder named portable unside the Arduino IDE installation folder. Without that folder, it's just a normal Arduino IDE installation.

So you need to create the folder E:\Test\arduino-1.8.13-Farbtest\arduino-1.8.13\portable

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Hi pert,

thank you very much for pointing me to the missing detail.
Yes now it works.

For almost any Opensource-software there is a portable version as an extra ZIP-file.
It would be very easy to ZIP the portabel-version with the requiered folders as there are
"portable"
and subdirectories
"sketchbook",
"libraries"
and
"packages"

So that unzipping creates all subfolders that are needed

best regards Stefan

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@StefanL38, I was thinking the same.

But I suspect that it's not only the 'portable' mode that this is used for. I think that it can also be used by users that don't have administrative permissions on their machines and don't have the need for the 'portable' mode.

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