General Discussion

Why are all apps not made portable? In the sense that they save all of the files are made in their own directory and compacted to the smallest possible size.

[Topic clarified by mod Tim]
was: Portable Apps

I know that there is encription software for preventing unwanted access to files on a flash drive or PHDD. I want to know How to prevent a flash drive from being infected with malware and viuruses. If useing a flash drive on a compermised system say a Liburary sys, School sys etc. Some systems may not have adiquite virus protection.

Does anyone know of a way to do this as it would be good to know.

I had ceedo on my stick with Copernic desktop search installed. My stick broke and I lost Ceedo. So I installed Portable Apps on a new USB stick and downloaded Copernic Desktop search home. However, the latter refuses to install but to the local dir (i.e. C-dir); it doesn't accept the drive letter my USB stick is mounted on.

Just a note informing the community that WikiHow.com, the how-to Wiki, has an article on PortableApps.com, in case anyone from here wants to represent the site.

Recently, I was presenting my collection of portable apps and other things and I was asked if they are also similar portable apps for MAC?

Well I have operated a mac abt twice in my life and have not much contact to any mac users, but are they any portable apps for mac or not?
Or do they have some feature like wine on linux to be able to run some of the apps anyway?

Sorry, but myself I have absolutely no clue about mac system, therefore the question here.

Hey all, I needed to address these 3 issues but I didn't want to spam the posts with 3 different threads so I just placed everything here. Mods feel free to move it if necessary.

Firstly, I would like to say that the works you all are doing is excellent. I have been a member of PA for 3 or so months and I am loving it! Congratulations John and you guys, keep up the great work!

Secondly, I am having a problem with Pidgin. I enabled the Transparency plugin, but Pidgin crashes every time I open a IM window with it enabled. Any help?

Am I right in thinking that a portable application is any application that does not write to the registry, and does not put icons on the desktop.

Thanks

I found this program called Portable USB WriteProtector and was wondering if anyone has heard of it before and if it might be worth running to help prevent my flash drive from being infected with malware, should I run it on a library or internet cafe computer etc.?

I found it at SoftPedia.com which scan all their files for viruses, but I also uploaded it to VirusTotal as well and not one AV there detected it as a virus.

Here the link at SoftPedia http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Security/Encrypting/Windo...

I was wondering if anyone knows of an open source equivalent to Visual Basic . I have taken a look at www.FreeBASIC.net but I was looking for something that is more object oriented programming. Mainly be cause I use Visual Studio at home so a relatively familiar interface would be nice.

A How to make skype portable.
basically full local install, copy prog files dir and add a bat file.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/17/how-to-run-skype-from-a-usb-flas...