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Site Slowdown Issues (December 2025) - Chinese AI bot DDoS

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 15, 2025 - 12:38pm

There have been some site slowdown issues in the last week. They often appear as the browser negotiating a TLC connection longer than usual, especially on a first connection to the site. This will either take far longer than necessary or timeout. This is unrelated to previous server downtime issues. It may be related to an increase in traffic due to AI bot scraping or similar. I'm working with Rackspace on log analysis as the issue has persisted even while we increase the workers available to processing connection.

Legacy Apps For Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 32-bit

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 31, 2022 - 8:19pm

I'm working on adding legacy builds of our officially-released apps that have dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, or 7 to the base app homepages. The goal is to make them easier to find for folks on legacy systems. I'm listing out completed packages and packages that are being researched and built below. The packages are designed to install alongside your main app installs and won't be updated to the latest version - breaking compatibility with your legacy OS - by the PA.c Platform. We don't need copies of any of the apps listed, thanks.

Outdated Official Portable Applications

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Welcome to the PortableApps.com outdated apps tracker. Please post a comment for any outdated official apps that aren't already listed with AppName Version as the title (no dashes, Vs or other text). Before posting a request, please make sure that their stable Windows build is available and they have been announced by their publisher (just being available on a download/ftp server, SourceForge, github, or 3rd party site doesn't count as the app may not yet be official). Comments will be deleted as they are added.

Passing file name with spaces as parameter

Submitted by Pingouin on May 20, 2026 - 9:29am

Hi,
I have searched this forum for any issues with spaces in names, and only see mentions of the path.
I have an app (PhotoFiltre) for which, if I pass an image file name as parameter, it will only work if the image file name does not contain any spaces (e.g. "test.jpg" will work and open once the app launched, but "some test.jpg" won't open after app launched).
I have added "NoSpacesInPath=false" in ini [launch] section, but unsurprisingly this does not help as I understand it to be for the app path, and it's false as default anyway.

Make donation

Submitted by Nilton on May 12, 2026 - 9:47pm

No Brasil usamos o PIX como meio de pagamento. Muitos gostariam de ajudar o projeto Portable Apps mas não usam cartão de crédito ou Paypal. Eu mesmo poderia fazer uma doação se PortableApps.com recebesse através do PIX.
In Brazil we use PIX as a payment method. Many would like to help the Portable Apps project but don't use a credit card or Paypal. I could make a donation myself if PortableApps.com received it through PIX.

chip crisis and ram optimizer apps

Submitted by UpdateInformer on May 12, 2026 - 8:07pm

we are all affected by the crisis and so ram optimizer apps get more and more important. i was hoping to find here a opensource app. i found here nothing, besides maybe a discussion or request of RAMagic or so.
i had long time ago one but cant remember the name and try to relieve it else/differently.
if i get to and find a nice opensource app, i try to post a request, as RAMagic seem only freeware.
lets see if we get such an app in the repository soon to assuage the pain, i'm looking to it.

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