General Discussion

Hello,

Is there a way to pin a portable application on the task bar (or in the menu)? I am not interested in pinning and using a second copy of Firefox as discussed in a previous discussion, but I would love to put a shortcut of "StartPortableApps.exe" in the taskbar.

Alternately, I am looking at a less cumbersome way of starting PortableApps. Right now, the following happens when I insert the USB key
– System churns for a few seconds and finally shows the "Auto Exec" window

Has anybody seen the write-ups for the Iomega v. Clone drive?

From what I can see, it is a portable hard drive that is pre-loaded with PortableApps.com applications and pre-configured to allow you to transport all of your stuff from a work computer to a home computer or wherever else, too. They even mention that it is good for backup since you always have redundant copies of your stuff, should one of the machines fail.

I have a couple of questions related to licenses.

1) What license should I use for my launchers?

2) If you make a launcher can I say I made Portable SomeApp or do I have to say I made a Launcher for SomeApp?

3) Can I create a project in SourceForge and host all programs, launchers and scripts Or do I have to make a project for each?

Every cell in your usb stick can be overwrited a limited time, luckely we have a lot of cells and it can be overwrited a lot.
I use my usb stick verry much and love portable apps but one thing pulled my attention: running portable firefox,... keeps it flashing over and over.
its because it downloads its webpages in the cache but isn't it a better programming habit to store everyting in the temporary folder and at the end when closing perform a check and write al changed data to the memorystick.
I think its better but does this fit in the portable idea?
are there anny problems with this?

Hello my friends!!!

How many apps here on http://portableapps.com

are free for commercial use???

I know the opensource are ok for com. use (like gimp,7zip,filezilla, etc)

but what about apps like XnView ??
XnView is free but not open source right???

so it will be legal to have it to the PC of my small company office?

HI,

I use "PortableApps" for about a Year, and I must say, it is great. But today a study colleague shows me an other site:
**************** Edit: better to delete

What is the difference? The design looks similar, but the one site use a red color with a white arrow on a grey background, an the other site is designed in blue, withe the white arrow on a golden background.

I don´t understand why

I downloaded this file:

PortableApps.com_Suite_Setup_1.5.2_en.exe

It's a Windows executable, of course. It works fine on Windows.

The installer just extracts a directory tree, it seems. I'm wondering if there's a way to "rip" this directory tree out of the installer, and obtain the files without having to run the installer?

Why would I want to do this? Reason is, I'm deploying a tool on Linux to automate the creation of many USB flash drives, in bulk.

there isnt really much of a search function in this forum. if there is could someone please point it out.

this is my first post, i have just downloaded the software and looks very promising. works really really well. i do have a question tho.

are you able to customize where documents, music, videos and what not point to. as i have my own folder structure and just want to change the shortcuts to those ?

Thanks for your help.

Hey,

I am new to this portable app.

I was thinking whether 'Firefox portable' use more RAM than the 'usual Firefox'

I checked the task bar and it shows that Firefox portable uses more than normal Firefox.

Is this true?

I've found a near-fatal problem in the entire PortableApps solution, at least when running flash drives.

Sometimes, when my flash drive is plugged in, when I plug in my phone (to charge it mostly, other times to transfer a new picture or ringtone made in XnView or Audacity over), the "What do you want Windows to do?" box pops up for the phone... then for the flash drive. It's like plugging the phone in disconnects, then reconnects the flash drive. Is this normal?