I download the Portable Apps on my main drive and now I icon of my main drive has changed how can I delete this apps and change the image of my main drive to its original state?
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The application has changed the image of my main drive!
September 14, 2010 - 12:31pm
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The application has changed the image of my main drive!
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the folders, right click, delete or so.
You might find also the file autorun.inf
This you can then delete too.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Thank you for your quick reply.
I deleted all the files and the problem remains the same. How to find all the files which have been downloaded in to my system?
It's just an autorun.inf in the root of the drive. Once deleted, it won't be used anymore. However, you normally need to disconnect and reconnect a drive in order for Windows to notice it. Since you can't do this with C:, just reboot and it will go back to the way it was.
If you want to run in C:, you can install there and just delete the autorun.inf. A later release will not use the autorun when installing to C: so it's not as confusing.
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Just to add to what John said, PortableApps doesn't download lots of files to your system and do lots of nasty hidden things. That's the whole point of it, other than this autorun, it doesn't change anything. So you don't need to fear that it's installing all kinds of files all over your system creating a huge mess, it's not.
Hope you enjoy PortableApps!
Thank you again for both your replies. I did followed the instruction: search for the file 'Autorun.inf' then delete and then reboot the system. Unfortunately the icon of my main drive 'C' has become 'PortableApps.com' with windows icon instead of the drive image. Please let me know if anything else needed to be taken care here? Am I missing something rot he application is really taking over? It is a little bit frustrating to see this result after the download.
Thank you again.
It's not hidden anymore (it was with version 1.2). Autorun.inf would be in the root directory of the C:\ drive aka C:\autorun.inf. That file should be deleted. And you can right-click the drive and rename it to whatever you'd like. 'Local Drive' is the default in Windows. Personally, I name it as 'Windows 7' or whatever version of Windows is installed on it.
Also, be sure you rebooted after you'd ensured the file is deleted and drive renamed. From your description, it sounds like it is definitely still there since it's still called PortableApps.com and is using the default Windows icon (since it can't find the PA.c icon which was deleted when you deleted the PortableApps directory).
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John,
I went through the search result on my PC and I found this. Please see below:
[Autorun]
Open=StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
Icon=PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\Graphics\usb.ico
Label=PortableApps.com
I deleted this source. Whta do you think? It is not permanently deleted yet. Should I go for it all the way?
Yes, you can delete the whole autorun.inf file. It's not necessary on local drives. Or if you want, you can customize the Icon and Label of it to be something specific you'd like, too. But I'd think you'd just want to delete it.
Again, any changes you make (altering it or deleting it) won't take affect until you reboot.
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John,
I did delete the entire last auto run file which I described to you in the system. I reboot the system and now it is back to normal picture and name.
Thank you for your advise and your time.
If you decide to install again and want any assistance, just pop in and ask.
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If the apps are installed to a machine's hard drive rather than a USB drive they're not very portable anymore. Maybe in that case the name should be changed to Free apps from PortableApps.com or something similar. C: drive files/apps are definitely not portable.
Ed
They're portable in the sense that if I ever have to reinstall Windows (as is necessary from time-to-time), I simply copy the apps from my hard drive and then put them back when Windows is installed. Then voila! I have all my apps instantly up and running. No tedious (and numerous) application installs to do.
I've got my portable apps set up on a secondary partition of my system drive. D:\Pub\Bin. I just synchronize this folder to my SDCard occasionally as a backup in case I lose the whole drive. All told I got about 4GB installed on the thing. I also keep my data on that partition so if windows is ever unrecoverable, I can just reinstall it on the primary partition.
I am kinda wanting to pick up one of those 16Gb microsdhc cards and one of the thumbnail sized usb adapters for it though as well. But that one is going to have a bootable linux distribution on it as well. A lot of portable programs work just as well in wine as they do in windows.