i have been using the portable xlaunchpad on w7 x64 for several months and all of sudden it stopped working. now it always crashes as soon as i run it. the icon shows up in the system tray, but as soon as i go over it with the mouse, it disappears because the app is no longer running.
i also use the portable xwidget and while this one still works, the menus don't have any text anymore:
i suspect these 2 problems might be connected, looks like both "x-apps" depend on something that's gone missing on my system and now xlaunchpad crashes and xwidget can't display the text in its menus. i tried using dependency walker to find out what's missing, unfortunately it didn't solve much. it gave an error about missing ieshims.dll, but putting a copy of this dll in the xlaunchpad's folder (the dependency walker stopped showing this error) didn't stop the crashes.