General Discussion

This is simply a post to say thanks to John Hall and all of the PortableApps.com team. From the programmers and testers to the moderators, posters and users. Thank you all.

My virus scanner, CA eTrust, is detecting the Win32/Loodok!generic.2 Trojan. This is being reported against the system.dll which gets extracted from the application launcher.

I doesn't happen on all apps; the latest ClamWin is okay, but firefox and filoezilla, for example, exhibit the problem. I have even re-downloaded the firefoxportable.paf.exe but it also shows a trojan when run, and the MD5 checksum is correct. Running the application executable directly, without the launcher, works perfectly.

just to get this out of the way, recently, mods have started requesting that we use the Add Comment link instead of just replying, problem is, i dont feel like scrolling down through 50 posts on "Corrupt a Wish" and then scrolling all the way back up to the top just to hit the Add Comment instead of the convienient Reply. **do you think we could have the Add Comment replace or at least be next to the Reply?**

I have seen in the web page you would like to develope a portable Linux.

Such thing exist. Check the distribution DSL
www.damnsmalllinux.org

The basic system is only 50Mb, including basic aplications.
Can boot from cd, usb or hard disk.
Can boot on windows using qemu virtual machine.

All you need is to add it to your menu.

Until recently I have been using a 1gb usb.
Then when I went to upgrade I saw a 120 gb Western Digital external/portale hard drive. Being tha newbie I am, I thought it would act the same as a usb just massive :o)

I really dislike the documents and settings folder. Over years more and more cruft is inside. It`s complex and difficult to clean up.

Is there some common way to redirect any request of an application to write to %appdata% to /programfolder/username?

That way software would be already much more portable and I could delete all files of applications I am no longer using.

Hi,

I am thinking of buying an IronKey and using PortableApps on it. Does anyone know how well they both work together? That is, are there any compatibility problems installing/running PortableApps on the IronKey?

I dunno why, but somehow I'm under the impression that some problems might arise (possibly because of the hardware-based encryption).

Thanks for any help.

Hi,

is it possible to use a portable Application as default-Application inside another portable application?

e.g.
- sumatraPDF as (of course external) pdf-viewer used in portable Firefox
- portable Firefox as the Browser that opens urls from portable Thunderbird
- Notepad++ Portable as the default editor used in winscp-portable
- winmerge in rapidsvn portable

Only to give some use cases. Is there already a way, to do this complete or partly? If not, is anyone else interested in such things, and would it be worth some effort?

Ok i was wondering if i could install and make a start menu icon for portable applications that are not on this site and how i would go about doing that i have tried once but was not able to get it to work properly any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Shawn

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Microsoft missing the cloud with Windows on a USB stick.

Microsoft preps StartKey: A ‘Windows companion’ on a USB stick.

What does everyone think?