General Discussion

Hello.
If I have to format the hard disk, could I just copy the folder of all the portable apps on another media (for example an external hd), format c:, reinstall Windows and then re-copy the folders, or should I re-install the .paf file for each portable app?

Thanks!

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Thanks,
John

It would be nice to have the Suites and larger apps like OpenOffice available as a torrent. At times I have gotten multiple failed downloads using a DSL or Cable internet connections.

OpenOffice.org makes their software available this way and it works great.

Paul

Please forgive me, I haven't been on PA.com for a while and I think I missed this discussion, and now I can't find it. So, I am going to ask.

A while back there was some discussion of an improvement coming out for PA. This was going to help with checking for updates to applications, and installing them automatically every time someone starts PA, which would be especially helpful with programs like Clamwin. I am not sure if anything ever came out of this or not. Just figured I would check.

Thanks for the info!

How do you make applications portable I wan't to make applications I made portable

I recently joiced identi.ca mostly to get updates from here and FOSS projects. PortableApps has not made notices there for about 3 months. Is this on purpose?
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Hello.
Some days ago I installed Open Office portable. It was the 3.1.1 version if I'm right.
I installed it using Total Uninstall freeware version (2.35). I always monitor installations with it. And I found that even portable apps make a few little modifies in the Registry of Windows.

Now 3.2.0 Portable Open Office has been released and I'd like to upgrade it.
But how to proceed?

1) simply delete the folder and install the new one?
2) make a kind of "upgrade" installation? If so, how?

Now i use a Corsair Voyager 16GB GT.
But it feels like glue =S

When i install the suit, i takes over 45min.
i got 11GB free space.

And when i start FF it freezes, from start to go into one webpages can take up to few minutes.

Got this speeds: http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showpost.php?p=441182&postcount=7

And corsair says it "normal" so i dont know what wrong.
Have formated and tried whit both NTFS,FAT32.

And still like glue.

Does anyone know of an open source golf game, and by "game" I mean 3D simulation (so don't say Neverputt :P). It doesn't have to be hyper-realistic, but it has to make a decent attempt.

It occurred to me that this is exactly the type of game I'd expect to find in the realm of open source games but I don't recall ever seeing one. I've played a few free ones over the years but they seem to have come and gone.

I've been using PortableApps on a thumb drive for a couple of years. I really like the ability to use public, or a friend's, computers as a back up. All the applications I need, except taxes and Streets and Trips, are portable. I have dial-up at home, so Firefox on a stick WAS particularly helpful.

My local library's wifi doesn't allow email to be sent through lavabit.com so last week I plugged my thumb drive into one of their computers to email. I got a message saying I couldn't run my applications from a portable drive.