General Discussion

I can't tell you how grateful I am for PortableApps.com. I recently took a job in a networked environment where I don't have admin privileges, my network profile allotment is a measly 30 mb, and I'm not allowed to bring my laptop to work. Loading PortableApps onto a 512 mb Lexar flash drive has given me total control of my computing environment. I'm free!

I'm quickly filling up the 512 drive, though. I'm going to kick it up a notch to a 10 gb pocket hard drive connecting through firewire -- faster, I hope, and lots of room to grow.

Thanks, John!

Question: PortableApps Suite in other languages like czech, german,...

Where i can get this languages packages!?!

I need it for some friends in germany and czech republik

And how to install?

Thanks for help!

(we use it on usb drive!!!)

Hi All,

Here is a link to a fantastic open source movie catalog program.

I have found it perfect for my needs and the best thing is if you download the rar file you can run it as a portable app.

Just wanted to share my discovery.

Cheers

http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/

I'm thinking this should be stickied so people don't have to ask this (including me)

How do you make apps? Just finding the .exe like it says it not working

When I install a fresh copy of the portable apps on my DT Elite they all work responsively.

After a time the apps slow down. FF for example is crawling. So I reinstalled FF and it is a bit better but still slow. I used to run Faster Fox, Scrapbook etc but with the new install I omitted these extensions and it is still slow.

I did not change any of the settings so 0MB cache etc.

Does anyone know why this happens. I have also reformatted the DT and that helps but soon enough FF slows down. This does not seem to happen so obviously to Thunderbird for example.

Am I expecting too much from the DT? Have the write cycles caught up with me?

Please advise of when the next version of PortableApps will be available to the public. Also, please advise of any new applications to be releazed in the near future.

Thanks,
cstern

There are many references in the forums to the context in which PortableApps (or just portable apps) on a portable drive might be used on host machines, the most usual being machines at work/home and those belonging to colleagues, friends (holidays?) and internet cafes. Is it just me, or do these suggestions reflect a world quite different from the one I inhabit? I don't work in a particularly secure or as far as I know a very paranoid environment, but I can't think of many "colleagues" who would welcome me into their space brandishing a USB stick ... that's easily short-circuited, but where I find real difficulty is on foreign territory: I haven't found an internet cafe with a USB port, or not one that's enabled anyway, and up until reading the posts, had assumed that this is pretty usual.

I am up against a pretty restrictive and eager-to-make-a-point-of IT department who sees everything as black and white only. I believe the solutions here are superb and am pretty excited to have a bit of freedom again, but...

What is left behind as any kind of trace? I realize the MTU and Prefetch areas are populated on the PC...fine...I can delete those off. Anything else that I should be aware of? Even the slightest thing can make a difference...!

TDD.

Can you tell me how to uninstall the Portable Apps icon / name menu on my flash drive? I know I can remove the folders, but the name of the flash drive cannot be changed, and I cannot remove the 'icon' that has been assigned to it.

Thanks.

Some apps I have add application to the end of the name of the app.

Like, "Foobar2000 Application" and "Restoration Application"

Is there a way to change this? It just kinda annoys me.