General Discussion

Hi all,

I just want to know if anyone know of any portable utilities/program that can be used to launch/run program? Kinda like when you are clicking Start-Run.

I know I can achieve this by merely creating a shortcut and place that on my taskbar, but of course, having to do so for each command will clutter up my taskbar. Googling at the moment but can't find any.

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated. Thanks.

I would like to customize my FirefoxPortable.exe icon. I can customize the App/Firefox.exe with ResourceHacker but I can't for FirefoxPortable.exe.

Does Anyone know what please?

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I've been using Syncplicity to synchronize my portable apps across multiple computers. This may not be the originally-intended purpose for these apps, but it's very useful. For example, if I add an extension to Firefox on my laptop, it's automatically available on my desktop!

The only problem I've run into -- really, just on Syncplicity's end -- is that I occasionally need to clean out some duplicate files. Has anyone else tried combining these two tools?

Seeing that the extensions, such as the DownThemAll extension and FireFTP extension, are merely links to their AMO area, and not actual portable versions of the extensions, I suggest that they be removed from the Applications List.

I'm splitting this out from a comment on the 7-Zip release as I think it may warrant further discussion. The user inquired about doing a 64-bit version of 7-Zip Portable. Now, rather than dismiss it as it could be extra work, etc, I think 7-Zip is one of the few apps where it might make sense.

thought some may find this interesting

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/25/superspeed_usb_3_guide/

Hi all,

I was "cleaning" one of my USB memories plenty of portable applications and again I had a problem deciding...

I have 5 portable file explorers, each time I need to use one I load 2 or 3 of them at the same time... always trying to compare... but never found an obvious difference

Of course, for a portable device it is too many apps doing the same in a limited space, so I come here again to ask for help deciding pros and cons on this apps.

The apps in question are:
1. Double Commander
2. Free Commander
3. Ultra Explorer
4. Ultra Mage
5. Xenon

I just want to mention this here in the hopes that something can be done about it in the medium term at least.
I'm using a number of programs from this site on a computer with 32 bit Vista and a 1400 x 1050 display (Pidgin, 7-Zip, Xenon, Notepad++, CoolPlayer+), and compared to Windows itself and things like MS Office, the fonts and icons appear to be less crisp - washed out, somewhat blurred. The programs are still perfectly usable, but there is a noticeable difference.
The one exception is FF 3.5 B4.

What exactly, if anybody knows for sure, is the basis for the opposition to open source within the realm of freeware?

I understand Microsoft's opposition, say, to making Windows open source. They don't want someone making a fork of Vista with no registration/activation that's given away free under another name but otherwise does the same thing, because they've sunk however many millions into its development. And Internet Explorer, while free, must be closed for various reasons (I assume, so somebody doesn't stick an ad blocker in it, is a biggie).