General Discussion

I know that people are looking at portable java applications (which wouldn't interest me as I don't even have JRE installed), .net applications on the other hand do turn my head...

I develop .net applications (hey Rob Loach, I noticed you're signed up on here too... small portable world - Paul A), and I'm wondering what the general feeling is about them for being portable apps, as you would have to have the .net framework installed first before it can be used... but the same goes for JRE.

On a side note, I am making a retro start program. Think waaaay back in history. Before the introduction of Windows 95. Before the accursed Taskbar stole precious space off your 12" (or if you were lucky 14"!) monitor. Yes, I'm thinking back to windows 3.1... the PROGRAM MANAGER!

Here is a link to a Portable NSIS that I made with the help of Deuce (he eliminated that window size registry entry!!)(Thanks Deuce!!) You should also check out some of the other cool projects we have going on at PortaSoft
EDIT* (New link)

http://www.portasoft.org/e107/page.php?13

-Justin

Just a heads-up to everyone. I'm starting the localization project on Monday and if you're multilingual... we'll need your help. The apps themselves are available in multiple languages, but the launchers have been English-only up until this point. You don't normally see messages from the launchers, unless there's a problem (eg: Another instance of Firefox is running, please close...)

The way it will work is I'll be posting a series of strings (sentence or two each) that we'll need translated. Replies will be made with those strings translated into each language and we'll go from there.

I've just found something interesting.
A quick launcher less than 40k, portable and green of course.
It's called "floater".

The zip is 32k, and the main program is 40k only.
Unzip, put shortcuts in the items folder, and run.
Then a quick launcher with shortcuts in the items folder will appear at the left-bottom of your screen.
Except launching, you can only click the left border of it to minimize it.
Not even move it, too bad. >_

Is there any way I can reference windir in pstart? I have a lot of apps added, such as notepad, etc) but some computers use c:\winnt and some use c:\windows. (I would like to keep the icons)

Has anybody here checked out Meebo? It is a web-based instant messaging client that supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, and Jabber/GTalk. It seems to work fairly well.

http://www32.meebo.com/

-Justin

Freecommander, TotalCommander, A43....

Are there any filters or settings that I can use so these programs only show the registry areas that should be considered for portability. i.e. are there any areas of the registry that can be safely written to and a program still be portable. When I run either Regmon or Regshot I get a bunch of registry changes but not all of them seem to be related to the program I am testing. Does anybody have any tips or suggestions to narrow down the list. Thanks

This soft is much like DeepFreeze, is what we need to make portable.
Maybe someone can make it portable.
Its free.

http://www.sandboxie.com/
http://www.sandboxie.com/download.php

I stumbled upon this site today and thought I might share it.

http://www.winpenpack.com/

I had to use bablefish to understand what was going on (the site is in italian) but there are some nicely packaged apps. I downloaded their portable version or ClamWin, it seems to work good and is trimmed down to ~18.2mb. Check it out.