This has probably been covered, but I couldn't find the answer. When PortableApps is sitting in the system tray(ie: active), how do you stop it? All I want to do is remove my thumb drive, but WinXP won't let me because it's being used.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Scott Bringen
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Do you mean the menu? You close it, with the X in the lower right.
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What I mean is:
1) I left click on the PortableApps (PA) icon in the system tray.
2) The GUI comes up.
3) I click on the X in the lower right and nothing happens.
4) As far as I can tell, there are no menu options to shutdown PA.
Clearer, I hope,
Scott
What version of the menu? What OS are you running? Are you running any oddball interface stuff (like ObjectDock which is known to interfere with other apps)?
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Sonce this happens on my home PC, I'll list common apps:
I can't tell the PA Menu version.
filemanager reports: StartPortableApps.exe 52K 11/18/2006
task manager reports: StartPortableApps.exe 9,764
WinXP Pro, Version 2002, SP2
OddBall stuff:
TweakUI
Treesize
Hope this helps,
Scott
The only time I've see this happening is if another app has a hidden form set to always on top (which ObjectDock does). Can you think of any other apps you have running that might be set to always on top?
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I'm shutting down anything that I don't need running. Then I'll check the remaining apps. I'll take more time on this later (lunch is over):) .
Thanks for your help,
Scott
Great. Let me know if you figure out what it is.
I think I'll add an on-top command to the menu as it displays to counteract this issue.
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I'm having the same issue as the original poster and never saw a solution. I'm running Windows XP Home with the following apps installed:
ClamWin
Firefox
Gimp
OpenOffice
Pidgin
PokerTH
Sudoku
Sumatra
Sunbird
Thunderbird
VLC Media Player
I have installed the newest edition and the latest patch, and still haven't had success.