Portable Electron app does not allow file drop

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My app is Angular based (17.2.2). Electron used is 29.0.1. I have portable and nsis targets (Windows). My app allows external file drops. This works well when using the nsis based installer, however the portable build disallows file drops. Needless to say both builds are produced off of the same Angular build so it has to be something Electron specific. The app is not running elevated. Windows Explorer also is not elevated.

Is this something inherent to portable apps? Am I missing some configuration tweak to make this possible?