General Discussion

I am fascinated by portable applications and especially the application suite. The Word says that you should not remove the USB drive until the light stops flashing, mine never stops, if via the task bar it says can't stop, try again later. Later it is the same so I just pull the plug and so far all is well. What is the problem? how can I make the light go out?

After installing the PortableApps suite (I love it by the way), when browsing My Computer in explorer my USB drive is called 'PortableApps (I:)' and has the PortableApps arrow icon. I'd like to be able to change both the icon and the name.

If I go into the drive's properties the name can be altered but it doesn't change the name in explorer. I'd also prefer to have either the default USB drive icon or even better, be able to customize the icon to something of my own choosing. I was wondering if this was possible.

Thanks

Although I live in the United States, I've received some magazines from India... and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had portable apps software from here (almost a year ago). I also could have sword I saw a portable app review or something in a Future magazine (the publisher).

I have a 1GB Sandisk Titanium Cruzer. I have removed the U3 partition and the U3 software using the available uninstaller, as well as formated the disk. I would like to divide the disk into 2 partitions, but am having trouble locating a method or software for this purpose. Ideally I would use one of the partitions as a bootable disk for bios updates and the other as simply a plug and run disk for PortableApps stuff and document storage.
The Windows XP Administrative tools>Computer Management>Disk Managment does not give the option to add/make a partition on the drive and Partition Magic 8.0 does not even show the drive (Probably since its for HDDs). Does anyone have any ideas/instructions for doing this? Ideally I would use one of the partitions as a bootable disk for bios updates and the other as simply a plug and run disk for applications and document storage.

Hi Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone can suggest a portable app that will allow me to track down high disk usage. Esssentially what I'm looking for is an alternative to JDiskReport.

I apologize for my 3 posts which you deemed as self-promotion.

I am mistaken because I saw a link to a closed-source application. I admit I did not read your forum rules when I register.

It is my mistake and I am man enough to admit that I was wrong.

You may delete my posts which breached your rules.

For whatever its worth, I was trying to promote an individual’s right to privacy (Article12, U.N. Declaration of Human Rights) without sacrificing some non-altruistic interests.

Since most internet users do not know that all e-mails are archived (in perpetuity), I thought my app may be a pretty good idea to counter this alarming trend.

I hope this isn't against Forum Guidelines, I opologise if it is.

A few weeks ago I had some free time and put together a CD of software along the lines of The Open CD, but with the aim of the applications running from the CD so that people can try them out and then allowing installation of the programs from the CD. I used the live versions of a number of John's apps to do this.

The CD includes descriptions and screenshots of each program and extras like manuals etc. All the software is Open Source except IrfanView, which I got permission from the Author to include.

If you're interested you can see more and download the CD image from

[I posted this in the Off-Topic by mistake. Please accept my apologies]

I have a portable secure e-mail application for WinXP platforms.

This application is free for personal use and requires a simple registration.

It uses RSA 8192 bits and AES 256 bits encryption and all secure e-mails are automatically signed.

It supports all types of POP3 accounts and web-mail as well.

More info can be found from

[Self Promotional Link Removed by Moderator - As you posted it 3 times in close proximity, this is your final warning. If you post something self promotional again, you will be banned.]

After finding out that the remove applications routine didn't work to remove the remains of my attempts to install Foxit Reader - error message of "in use by another user or application - try again later" I ended up reformatting my portable hard drive to start over from scratch - it is set up in FAT32 Format - and re-installing the Lite Suite - and niether Gaim nor Clamwin will start or run after this was done. Gaim is no loss as far as I'm concerned - but the Clamwin would be nice to have working - I'm curious as to what is going on here - is this a known bug or something new? I'm just about ready to go back to using the U3 and giving up on the portable suite- at least the U3 stuff works more or less reliably.

I'm unable to use the portable applications suite at work? In particular Firefox 2. I'm unable to surf. Can someone tell me what to do? Thanks.