General Discussion

Hi i have been testing the several antivirus apps here on portable apps in this list click here

1. calm win: seems to update virus definitions ok. and scan system. what i noticed is that it does not seem to do anything with detected viruses.
2. HijackThis Portable: again great scanning ability. but detects things that are not viruses. when checking the app and clicking analyse this button it gives error of not being connected to internet and i have to manually check them myself online.

I wanted to ask this as it was bugging me.

1. i noticed that when running portable app from the menu they seem to lag and take time to run. they are somewhat slower that i expect. really noticeable when using any of the portable browsers and using youtube etc.

2. i run avast antivirus and when ever i run any portable apps application avast detects a threat and scans the app. would love to know if anyone else uses avast and knows a tweak to set the portable apps directory to be ignored when running any portable apps.

my system is
os: win7 home premium 32bit

It's difficult to know whether or how this topic has been explored in the past because a search engine can only find 'so much'.

Having recently acquired and iPad from my nephew, I find it interesting how that mobile device handles security issues. Essentially, when running any iOS device you have the iOS operating system which runs totally independently from all other software. All added software utilities are essentially separate entities; each software installation is in effect a portable application that runs in its own sandbox.

Is Warmux dead? The homepage seems to be a Russian gaming site. Still, I guess it could be worse.

When upgrading from Opera 12.12 to 12.13 my default search engine IXQUICK was/is changed to GOOGLE. Happens every time. And that is definitly NOT OK. Probably an Opera issue but good to know.

CU

Hi,

Can you please tell me which apps officially use portableapps.com format?

I just know LibreOffice...

Thank you

Hi, what are the differences between PortableApps versions of apps and their standalone portable versions?

For example, SumatraPDF and KeePass both have portable versions on their websites. Did the PortableApps developers simply take the standalone portable versions and put them into the PortableApps platform framework, or did they start with the non-portable versions and modified them?

Thanks.

HI folks

PA Directory downloads all Apps to C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Temp\

Is there any way to change the download path to the usb-harddisk where PA is running ?

Thanks for help

Hi all

I am not a computer expert but I have a problem. I installed PortableApps on my USB Kingston and worked fine then installed the Kingston urDrive program but did not like and uninstalled it. Now every time I use PortableApps a warning stating that the file has been altered autorun appears. I want to know how I can prevent this warning from reappearing. thanks

So I downloaded chromium, firefox, and chrome internet browers and installed them onto my portable drive, and they work, but I notice they also all leave lots of files on the c drive of the computer (mainly in c:\users\username\Appdata, but other folders as well).

Is there any portable browser that leaves the c drive completely alone?

(If I run a browser on someone else's computer, I don't want to leave any trace at all on their c drive whatsoever, as in zero, nada, zip, nothing.)