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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.

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/32-bit Compatible Apps Available and Requested

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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Outdated Official Portable Applications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Welcome to the PortableApps.com outdated apps tracker. Please post a comment for any outdated official apps that aren't already listed with AppName Version as the title (no dashes, Vs or other text).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, github, or 3rd party site doesn't count as the app may not yet be official). Comments will be deleted as they are added.

Link to previous versions of Google Chrome Portable?

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Submitted by kingmustard on December 16, 2025 - 4:46am

I recently updated to Chrome Portable 143.0.7499.110, a build released in December 2025.

However, I have since discovered Google have removed two flags that I required:

  • Partition the Visited Link Database
  • Partition the Visited Link Database, including 'self-links'

Is there a way to download a version of Chrome Portable from a month or two ago?

I could not seem to find a way on your website.

dont let CCleaner portable die

Submitted by UpdateInformer on December 3, 2025 - 7:08am

i fully plead for keeping it alive,as its under my handfull top apps and i dont let run any apps all time, beside sec ones, and dont let other apps all time interfering, as need it once a week.
i dont want no apps bite each other and keep sys quick and stable.
i definitive dont use no such apps and hope you keep this magnificent app alive.
big thx!

difference on efficience and quality on portable app against win defrag

Submitted by UpdateInformer on November 28, 2025 - 3:24pm

especially on defragmenting system partition.
i hope for qualified answers with explanation.
i think smart defrag portable is great and possibly best solution for c:,as can be run from other partition and doesnt disturbs itselfs work.
i need to get c: fit, as didnt defrag for ages, i think.
thx

How can I backup my custom categories between installs?

Submitted by gs455 on November 24, 2025 - 3:14pm

I have modified my menu for quick retrieval by creating some custom categories and categorizing apps Ive downloaded underneath them, like so: https://imgur.com/a/k2Anhbu

When I did the backup and retrieved my portableapps on a new PC build the custom categories were not there. Can someone tell me how I can maintain my custom menu and also the categorization I give to each app?

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