General Discussion

Note that a CRITICAL security flaw has been discovered in 7-Zip.

All apps that use 7-Zip libraries can also be affected by this severe vulnerability.

This likely includes quite a few of the Portable Apps offered on this site, and may include the Portable Apps Platform itself.

The 7-Zip team has released a new version of their tool that (hopefully) patches the vulnerability, but every app that uses the vulnerable libraries also needs to be updated with patched versions of the libraries... otherwise they will still be vulnerable to this issue.

I'm familiar with the concept of portable applications, and I use the portable version of many of the applications that I use on a daily basis. But they don't need any special "platform" to run them - you just unzip them, and the configuration information is kept in a file instead of in the Windows registry. You can put the whole thing on a USB drive if desired, or wherever you want. So what exactly is the purpose of this PortableApps "platform"? What does it do? Why should I install it?

Thanks,

Rebeccah

How can I clone my USB thumb drive?
I have portable app installed with quite a few applications and I would like to replace my old USB 2.0 stick
with a new usb 3.0 one. However I don't want to re-install everything from the beginning and I also want to keep the setting of my applications.
Many thanks
Nic

I find myself using my PortableApps thumb drive more and more to the point where it is my primary mobile computing environment. I used to take my personal laptop with me on all trips, now I simply take my PortableApps thumb drive. This leads me to wonder if there is any way to monitor the health of my thumb drive? I know there are HDD health monitor apps like CrystalDiskInfo that use S.M.A.R.T. information available from the drive but I don't think this works for USB thumb drives. Anyone have any ideas to get early warning of problems with a thumb drive?

Dear Forum,

I'd like to customize the icons of some of my PortableApps folders, my favourite ones, to notice them more quickly above the others. For example, I'd like to change the icon for the ThunderbirdPortable folder; so, I created a specific icon, I placed it in the ThunderbordPortable folder and also created a Desktop.ini file as following:

So this might be obvious but where do all the apps store their data? Would my data be safe if i log on to portable chrome for example at school.

I see on the home page there are icons dropbox after the word "carrier cloud or on a portable drive" how can I install and run thuderbird through dropbox, ownCloud and other cloud services?

Hi,

apparently downloads of portable packages from Sourceforge are blocked by Google Chrome. I have tried to search the forum but haven't found anything definitive and/or recent in regard to this.

Simple question: Are portable apps hosted on Sourceforge a risk? Have they been modified by Sourceforge in any way?

Any clarification would be appreciated, thank you!

Is there a portable app you can recommend to pull audio from video files? Audacity doesn't seem to be able to do it with the video files I have.

Hi, I've understood that Google removed "relaunch in Windows 8 mode" in update 49....
Does anyone has an installed (extracted) of an earlier version (perhaps 48) that they can share?
I tried using older paf files and it fails to install...