General Discussion

These applications also work well when run from a fixed hard drive instead of a USB stick (or similar), and it makes it trivial to back up the full application, move it to another machine retaining settings, etc. In my opinion, for these reasons, they're much better than their non-portable equivalents.

Just a note for all, the PortableApps.com main server is being upgraded tomorrow morning (March 1st) between the hours of 5am and 6am New York time. We'll be upgrading to two dual-core AMD Opteron 270 processors and 8GB of RAM. The upgrades are necessary to handle the ever-increasing load on the site as the number of unique visitors increases daily.

On a related note, the downloads server is coming online the end of this week / beginning of next. This is the server will allow us to host a select few non open source apps that have been asked for many times by the community.

Regards,

Does anyone else have a missing search bar? I see the link, and it works, but no text box.

Does anyone know if DOS can write any settings to the registry? because if it doesn't, there would be over 200 DOS games that are portable.

Sorry if this has already been asked and answered, but I couldn't find the info. I recently got a larger capacity thumb drive and moved everything off of the old smaller one onto the new larger capacity one. Nothing is on the old one anymore but I would like to still use it for other things. When I install the old USB drive it still comes up as "PortableApps" and has the little PortableApps logo or icon next to it. I've tried renaming it but it always reverts back to "PortableApps".

I've checked all over the forums and couldn't find anything about this, except that the PortableApps Menu will run on any type of Windows account. At school, the system in WindowsXP, I tried Starting the PortableApps Menu, no luck, same with all of the programs, all I can access is documents. The computer says the program cannot start because of restrictions on the computer. Is there ANY work-around around this situation? Or am I outta luck?

After many hard drive losses, I decided to keep all of my important data on my portable HDD. Now, at school someone decides to me a funny bastard and remove my HDD while in use. Now in dose not appear in My Computer or linux partition manger. (http://mcnlive.org/) Nor in acronis or Norton Partition magic 8.5. I NEED MY DATA BACK!!!! All of my source code is on there to for PAC Master!!!!!!!!!

Sumatra PDF Viewer is now portable:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

"It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive"

Must say first; many thanks, a fantastic app - as someone said 'it just works'

I have a widescreen laptop, and have my start menu on the left hand side of the screen. I would like for the Portable Apps Menu to pop up near the tray icon which is in the bottom left hand corner of my monitor instead of the bottom righthand corner as I currently have to mouse the whole width of the screen to get to the menu.

Is ther ny chnce of a hot key to bring up the menu as well?

Thanks

PJ

I've just noticed that all the screenshots feature some rather nice looking black (almost vista-style) borders, rather than the standard bright blue (or the other silver/green options normally available).

Can someone please tell me what utility did this.

Cheers.