General Discussion

I was out looking for a different file manager and noticed that Free Commander has a PA version hosted on the official site. Just wanted John to be aware that others are jumping on the bandwagon too.

http://www.freecommander.com/fc_u3_en.htm

Does that mean you could maybe offer to link to it from PortableApps.com?

I love the portable apps suite and have installed it on several flash drives. The problem I have is that in explorer it shows the name of each drive as "PortableApps.com". I would like to be able to distinguish which drive is which without looking at the drive contents. Is there any way to rename it like maybe PortableApps.com_1,_2 or maybe _a,_b etc. or something along those lines? I've tried using the drive manager but it doesn't even show that name.

Thanks

Which is the better of the two - MPlayer or VLC Media Player?
And which Open Source Media Player is the most popular and most used(taking into account all open source media players and not just the two I have mentioned above) whether it be single platform or multi-platform is not to be taken into account.And all open source media player whether it be video/audio player or just audio player is to be taken into account.

any idea when the new suite is coming out

[Topic clarified by mod Tim]
was "new suite"

I have Thunderbird on my Eee PC and I have installed Thunderbird Portable on my PC desktop. The only short cut that I can find to click on to bring up my Thunderbird email is the .exe file and of course the just keeps installing the program. I am missing the short cut some where to click on to bring it up.

Thanks,
Bob

hi guys,

my idea is to create a theme for FF3 that looks similar to the original FF "Strata".
but the colors off the main buttons are changed to PA.com colors (Like "Strata Vista") and the icon set which are used in the new PA Platform.

so you can see on start up from firefox if you are using the host FF or the Portable
look at this discussion (https://portableapps.com/node/14606)

Hi,
I tried installing the R30 menu in every possible way (i couldnt find the official guide on how to install it) by just trying every combination of copy and paste of the files that come in the zip. I got it running, but i doubt im doing it right.
I copy and pasted the portableappsmenu.exe, apps folder, and data folder and replace all the original ones, which is what im guessing i was supposed to do. I get a pop up saying
'portableappsmenu.exe is not a valid portablapps.com release and can not be launched.'

I am looking for a batch file that will copy certain files and folders to the c: drive, and then another batch file that would delete them when i have finished.

Is this possible?

if so could someone give an idea of how to do it please?

hi everyone,
i was already using firefox portable, now as i installed the menu, i moved the firefox folder to the portableapps folder, and it does not work.. it keeps crash...
can u help me plz

thank you in advance

This was origianlly posted elsewhere but after someone pointed me here .... i decided to try here .. and oh boy .. what a great app this is and i'm going to use it to make my little program run in a "cooler" way hehehe
I don't need my USB stick for firefox and all the other great options although i will investigate that further ... instead .. i want to run a small .bat script that does a few automated tasks for me ... cleans a folder on the USB stick, then copies files to the stick automatically.