General Discussion

Hi people. I've got a (silly?) question. Somewhere on this forum I read about people using a different installer than Windows Installer that remembers everything that's installed when you want to install an application on your computer. So it remembers registry changes, new folders, etc., you probably know what I mean.
Now, I've searched all over this forum and Google, and I'm not able to find it! Could anyone please tell me what kind of program(s) this/these are?

A list of more applications that can be installed/copied to a portable device can be found here: http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm

Not all of the apps are in a portable form, such as Spybot S&D amd Ad-Aware, but they can be installed to an external HDD or USB drive and they work fine.

If I understand the context of the current guidelines, one CAN post about their own software if it is under an OSI approved license and it is portable, or if somebody asks a question relating directly to that application. Is my understanding correct?

I ask because I plan to be writing a few apps in my spare time, they will be GPL or LGPL, and I would like to make them portable and PAF compliant. It will be some time before anything about these apps is posted, but when the time comes, I don't want to be accused of self-promoting.

Hi one and all, I am new to this forum and rubbish with a computer, so expect some pretty basic questions in the future! I installed the full suite on my usb drive a few days ago and think it's great, so all works fine but two questions, should the menu icon be one the taskbar even when usb is not connected and is the X at the bottom right of the menu there to close it. Every time I try to "safely remove" a message tells me the drive is still in use. Any advice would be helpful but keep it in simple terms! My OS is XP Pro. Thanks in advance.

I needed my I-stick for another purpose and decided to delete the portableapps program. I deleted everything including hidden items, formated both drive letters shown and still the extra drive letter continues to show. Main drive letter "E" is showing 900+MB memory and drive "F" 10MB.

How do I wipe out the "F" drive? I can't find any information about doing so and hope someone here can help.

Thanks....

Connor

I was having trouble getting Portable Apps to install on a USB drive and someone suggested setting it up on the hard drive and then transfering the whole thing. Well that worked, but the setup changed the disk icon to a custom icon. Two questions: Why? And now that I have moved all the Portable Apps files I have been left with a bum icon, looks like a file that has no association. I am not the only person who uses this machine so down the road this is going to cause confusion. How can I get the generic hard drive icon back.

Thanks,

David

Hi

I am new to this app's stuff, about 24 hours, everything works great except the auto run. I have searched some of the forums and have noticed that you have to copy certain items into the USB main directory, well those items are in but still does not auto run. Can anyone tell me what's wrong.

cheers

Please see the new update here: PortableApps.com Update (Week of Feb 4, 2008)

As a followup to last week's State of PortableApps.com Update (January 14, 2008), I'm going to be posting weekly status updates to be sure we keep things on track and we're all on the same page.

Updating Current Portable Apps (In Progress)

First off - I've seen the future and it's called "PortableApps!"

I've run this now on three PCs all from my 80GB USB drive. It's truly wonderful to be able to send and receive all my email from my own domain wherever I happen to be and to be able to go back through years of emails. Thunderbird is GO!

First off, to whomever may concern, you guys are doing a great work, I use this little software all time! Keep it up!

Say I got one of those old applications that don't need installation on a computer, you just unzip to your preferred folder and double-click the executable to run it, and it just works. Is there a way to copy the application folder into my USB drive and add its icon to my PortableApps.com Menu? In other words, install an already portable application to the menu without an installer...

Thanks in advance.