General Discussion

Not finding where I should post this, I decided it would land here.
Being somewhat new at making portable apps, I find some parts of the process somewhat tedious. Not that it's necessarily hard, but some of the tasks required are just plain annoying because of their redundancy (like creating folder structures).

In testing out performance issues on LibreOffice Portable, I've determined that Windows 10 anniversary update positively kills font API performance. It's to the point that my old ASUS T100 tablet with a Z3735 cpu running Windows 10 pre-anniversary update launches LibreOffice Portable 5.2.1 from a USB3 drive faster than my Dell i7 desktop running Windows 10 anniversay does from an internal Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

This may or may not be related to MS14-045: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2982791

In order to install PortableApps on some internet-less (or very-slow-internet) computers, I'd like to have a couple of options:
- download all setup files of my currenty installed apps (on my computer where I have a *fast* internet connection)
- keep setup files when I update my installed apps (see above)
I noticed that all those .paf.exe files are actually downloaded in a temp folder but they are automatically deleted when the update has been completed.

TIA for your help

Hi!
I'm now working on another program and I want to completely block the changing of file associations on the system.
Is there a way to do that no matter the OS?

I read that it's possible using the registryvaluewrite function but the instructions given are not all that clear on how this would be possible...

In working on the startup speed of LibreOffice Portable, I've been considering how long it takes the Windows API to handle loading the fonts in. This process takes place every time you start LibreOffice Portable and the fonts are removed every time you exit. LibreOffice has bloated up to include 86 fonts as of 5.2.1. I'm not sure how much this is an issue, though, as I don't have a good setup to test on.

I have downloaded all apps except BPBible and Colour Contrast Analyser,I have used VPN and reinstall windows 7 to download BPBible and Colour Contrast Analyser from portableapps platform internal app installer,still doesn't work.

Hi!
I've been working on a launcher for the Windows Moviemaker6 and am stuck with an annoying glitch I can't seem to shake off.
Here's what's going on.
I have a launcher for both the 32 bit and the 64 bit versions of the program along with a bunch of registry keys. Everything seems to go well. Keys get saved and all, but when I look in the task manager, the portable launcher stays running even if I closed the program. And killing it causes the launcher to say it wasn't properly closed on last run.

Print: http://imgur.com/IaBstvW

How can I solve this?

Hi,

I updated the newest version today. but I cound not find anything about "2 downloads (32+64 bit)" feature? what it is about?

thank you

Thanks everyone for the continued work on the PortableApps platform and apps. I use them almost every day and they are quite the life saver! I really appreciate the work on this project! It is especially great for using Windows on my MacBook, I have little room to spare on my Windows partition and the ability to run hundreds of great programs off of USB/external HDDs, and such is great!

Thanks again!