General Discussion

I'm running Platform 12.0 Beta 3 on Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

When I use: Help->Check Drive for errors
I see two VSS errors logged:

1) Error 8193
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered

Event Data:
0000 2D 20 43 6F 64 65 3A 20 42 55 45 43 58 4D 4C 43 - Code: BUECXMLC
0010 30 30 30 30 34 33 36 33 2D 20 43 61 6C 6C 3A 20 00004363- Call:
0020 42 55 45 43 58 4D 4C 43 30 30 30 30 34 33 33 32 BUECXMLC00004332
0030 2D 20 50 49 44 3A 20 20 30 30 30 30 36 31 32 30 - PID: 00006120

I have 3 different computers and I have been using Dropbox for years to keep synched all my documents. Lately I have installed my Portable apps inside Dropbox too, so that I do not need an USB drive to have an identical system on all 3 computers.
I would love to use Dropbox portable to mirror this solution even to an USB drive, but there is not an offical Dropbox portable application.
I see there is an unofficial version of it: does anyone recommend it?
I guess Carbide would be the only option to safely carry my Dropbox on usb around?

How can I make an app (one that's installed by a PA.com installer) always start as admin?

Some apps do need it, but don't request admin rights automatically, so they can be used in readonly mode. I want full access, always. Therefore, I'm looking for some sort of "AlwaysAdmin" or "AlwaysElevate" kind of flag, somewhere...

How do to this?

In my search for a proxy that would allow modification of headers, I came across https://portableapps.com/node/777 page. Then, after finding and starting to use proxomitron, I remembered the aforementioned person's issue, and realised that this program also solved his issue (At least I think I understand his issue - http://www.inetprivacy.com/a4proxy/chaining-proxomitron.htm).

Can someone help me to understand how to configure the widget in order to:

- define a private repository
- configure widget to get new app and app update only from the private repository

Thanks in advance.

I have converted one program that requires .net 2.0 in portable format and i am running the program on Windows 7 x32. The program runs fine most of the time but sometimes just stops to work and i have to restart it to make it work again, and i think this is related to the .net framework.

For programs that required .net framework do i have to insert any command in launcher.ini or appinfo.ini to make the program run without problems?

Why in this appinfo.ini example: https://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format#appinfo
it shows that the path to the icon must be like this: ExtractIcon=App\AppName\AppName.exe

But when i try to create the portable launcher it is looking for the icon file in \App\AppInfo\appicon.ico, and if it is not there it gives error and can not create the portable launcher.

Is it possible to comment out lines in launcher.ini as this is done in autohotkey scripts? In AHK script you can comment out line as you put ";" in front of the line. Is it possible something like this to be done with launcher.ini

I'm having update errors with recently updated apps, starting with Mcafee Stinger, Rufus, Task Coach, and Unetbootin.

When attempting to update from within the portable apps platform, a connection is never made and then times out with the display box stating, "Download Error: SendRequest error on file" with a redirection link to source forge with the said app in question. Also when trying to download manually from the portableapps site in hopes of updating, the page never loads for either app to be downloaded either.

I've been through most of the documentation and from my reading I should be able convert a existing opensource app into a portable app correct?

It would be very helpful if there was a practical example of taking a non-portableapp and turning into a portableapp.

The existing documentation is very detailed but its difficult to assemble it into a functional example of creating a portableapp.

If there are any functional examples out there on how to create a portable app, please point me to the right references.

Thanks!!