I'm new to Portable Apps and I'm experimenting with a few Portable options from Portable Apps to Ceedo and U3. I installed Portable Apps to my thumb drive and it works fine on my personal computers, but when I try to connect to a hotel business center with computers that are more locked down, I can't get it to start up. Any ideas? I get a message that there has been an error and windows explorer needs to restart.
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even on limited ones. Maybe the PC you cant use it on does not allow people to run exes from a USB drive. Or it has a list with executables and lets you only run exes when they are on that list. In that case try renaming for example firefox to iexplorer.exe and try that.
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Simeon [note I spelled it right this time
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For the sake of clarity,
Does the poster need to rename FF, OR FFP, OR BOTH?
If FF, how does FFP find FF?
[I assume the .ini, but thats a guess] ???
Tim
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You need to rename FF.exe and tell the Launcher the name via the ini file.
You can also rename FFP.exe, but that's neither necessary nor important and would just be done for fun
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Thanks for your reply. I don't think it's because it's locked down. CEEDO seems to work on the systems, just not PortableApps.
Sounds like you're running the 1.0 release on Windows 2000 (you probably have Win XP at home and the hotel has Windows 2000 - lots of them do). The 1.0.1 patch was released the same day and needs to be applied to enable use on Windows 95-2000. Otherwise, you'll get the "has generated an error" message. It's right on the Suite main page. grab this and install it to the same drive (select the root as with the Suite installer) and let it replace all.
PortableApps.com Menu is the lowest impact of any of the portable platforms. It works on Windows 95 through Vista, even under Guest mode in Win2K (the fussiest setup) and under Wine in Linux. So, it should work just fine on any locked down system as long as you can still run stuff from a removable drive.
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That may be it. I was using version 1.0. I've now upgraded. I'm no longer at that particular hotel but I'll test this on other systems as I get the opportunity. I was able to run programs if I ran their executables through windows explorer, but I was not able to run the main PortableApps start menu.
Thanks again.