Aloha everybody,
New here and love to work use portableapps since I am on a hp Stream 13 with almost no space after update of Win 10 home. I wonder if I can start portable apps directly from my desktop or the taskbar without selecting em in the menu.
Next question would be if there is a very slim windows ( I would go Linux but need Office 2016 for my work) that can be installed.
Mahalo
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The ability to pin apps to the taskbar is coming. You can test it out in the current Platform 16 Beta release for supported apps.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Mahalo John for your speedy reply and answer, I will check it out.
Note: Today I was somehow able to pin the START button to the taskbar but I lost it. I can pin it to start or with shortcut to the desktop. But on a 13" screen I like it clean....
// For simple apps, navigate to the .exe file on your USB drive (e.g. S:\papps\TedNPad.exe for Ted Notepad, where S:\ is my USB drive and "papps" is what I've named my portable apps folder). Drag the .exe icon to the Start Menu. Open the app from there. Pin the Taskbar icon that then appears. Done.
// For Chrome (I'm using portable Version 85.0.4183.102, Official Build, 32-bit), drag the chrome.exe icon from "S:\papps\4\App\Chrome-bin" to the Start Menu, open the app, and pin as above (where "4" is the snappier name I chose for Chrome's app directory, instead of keeping it as "GoogleChromePortableLotsOfDigits" or whatever it was out of the box). Under Chrome's Taskbar icon's Properties' Shortcut tab, make sure that the Target is set as "S:\papps\4\App\Chrome-bin\chrome.exe --profile-directory=Default", and the "Start in" field as "S:\papps\4\App\Chrome-bin". Done.
// (I've then dragged the Chrome icon along the Taskbar to make it the 4th item, so I can open or switch to it conveniently with the keyboard shortcut Win+4.)