General Discussion

I'm just curious why people use download managers these days. Over the years I've used all manner of different ones that have come and gone. However, these days, the fact is, I find that I rarely need one (if at all), for several reasons:

I would provide with pleasure a German version of PortableApps.com Installer. Is this permitted? I had tried to compile anew the Installer, however, an error message agreed. Need I additional Plugins?

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Is there an easy to use program that can create portable apps. I have a few programs that I would like to make portable as they aren't available in a portable version.

I'm looking for a portable application that will compare files in a folder and sub-folders and allow you to copy or sync as you choose.

There is a commercal application I really like named FolderMatch at FolderMatch.com but it cost $35 and it seems you have to buy a seperate copy for every PC you service.

1 - Is there a portable app like FolderMatch?
2 - Can you convert a standard app to a PortableApp?

Thanks for any help.

Warning about Notepad++ 5.5: On my system it first refused to acknowledge the hex editor, then proceeded to delete another plugin repeatedly. I went back to an earlier version of this program and will not trust any further updates.

How can I automatically update in one step all applications of a suite? E.g. when starting the suite all apps shall be updated automatically (may be in a special period).

Nice greetings, Dirk

Howdy,

On my computer at work, I do not have administrator rights, and the IT department still only allows Internet Explorer 7.

So I've downloaded every portable web browser I can find, and I'm going through the process of benchmarking them all using Peacekeeper at http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper

The following are the browsers I've found that don't get caught up in the IT department's security policies. I'll be benchmarking them all:

IE7
K-Meleon
Seamonkey 1.1.18
Seamonkey 2.0 beta
Opera
QTWeb
SRWare Iron
Lunascape
Safari 3.2.2
Safari 4.0 beta

I have installed Eclipse and XAMPP on my portable apps drive. I have Eclipse draw from a JDK in its folder, as suggested in this forum.

Anyway, I can't seem to get JDBC working with Eclipse. I have both the Apache and mySQL servers/services running, but Eclipse says that it can't establish a connection because it can't load the Driver.

Does anyone know what I can do to fix it? I don't want to install of this on my personal computer, I want to have it portable.

Thanks in advance.

I want to hear (or read) your thoughts on which games you want to see portable. I've compiled a list of my favorites but I want to know which ones I should make first. If you have a suggestion, feel free to post that too.

Counter-Strike 1.6

Cube

Doom

Halo Combat Evolved: Custom Edition

Serious Sam

I'm pretty sure all are open source but if one isn't please politely tell me its not.

When I try to open an Open Office application, this error message occurs and the application doesn't open:

The application cannot be started.
The user interface language cannot be determined.

What could I do?

Nice greetings, Dirk