General Discussion

I have a strange problem. I run a lot of portable apps on my work laptop which I do not have admin rights on. Portables have worked fine this way for years.

Today I came in and there were some issues with the local network and I reset my Windows password, and now many of the portable apps will not start, giving me the following error:

NSIS Error

Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid.

The temp folder is fine. I can write to it and many programs work fine and read/write from it. However a few do not.

I recently installed PortableApps on my 32GB USB3 Integral flashdrive and found that it renamed the drive to 'PortableApps.com' and the 'Rename' button in windows explorer wasn't working with it.
Is there any way to stop it doing this?

Xenon seems to be [an] interesting [one man project by John?]; unfortunately it seems to be abandoned. Basic Tab keyboard shortcut does not work at least. I like it being minimalistic.

I very much would like to ditch Total Commander for good, tried all the 3 browsers I could find in the list (not the 2-panel ones; I want to ditch the 2-panel style as well) still, I guess these may need a lot (and I mean A LOT) of customization just to be as functional as total commander in its basic form. Sad, as I'd very much like to ditch it, with it's 2 panels...

So, your favs?

i really like what they have. but am wondering if there are other alternatives. i like that i just double click on the start.exe and i am up and running in my familiar background and icons. the only thing they could do now is ad a autostart of portable apps. i am running the unsecured version i just want to see it in action then go after the secured version.

i use a 1tb usb desktop hard drive. i do not want to boot from this device.
i do not want a virtual environment. usually to much overhead on the laptops and desktops i use.

Hi folks,

I have multiple copies of several apps, each with different folders/configs, e.g.
C:PortableApps/Firefox v1
C:PortableApps/Firefox v2

I do want to keep these as entirely separate apps rather than just adding a new profile into, say, the Firefox v1 folder.

To date, I have been updating these manually as from what I could see, the PortableApps.com Platform only updates a single instance of each app.

Am I missing something? Is it possible to update multiple instances of the same app? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I recently get a lot of Norton deletions on PAF executables with "Suspicious.Cloud.9" as reason. Looks like the new installer results in detection as malicious

I am not yet 100% certain but when I get too many hits on the installer files it most likely is related.

For instance Focus Writer, Puzzle collection, NeverBall, TaskCoach

Just out of curiosity, is there a way to view the download stats for our freeware releases?

Our open source download stats are readily available on Sourceforge, just wondering if there was something similar for our officially released freeware (obviously we can't show stats when the app is hosted by the developer, eg. LibreOffice and TeamViewer, I just mean our self-hosted freeware like BabelMap).

Hi,

I love PortableApps.

The only thing that I dearly miss is the option to --search-- for new apps.

I mean that when I want a new app I go to Apps -> Get More Apps

Which brings up a new nice window.

That window is not searchable!

A search function there would upgrade the usability so much.

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pchat_portable

The learn more link takes you to an advertisement site.

Is there a program for making videos with webcam?