General Discussion

When I go to right click the application to Close Window to let Portable Apps run in the background, The whole thing closes. My computer was just upgraded to Windows 10.

On my Windows 8.1 OS, I was able to right click the application, Close Window and it still appeared in the System Tray.

I followed an article in another post about changing the Windows7TaskIcone=false to true, but that doesn't exist in the portableappsmenu.ini config file.

Please help.

I use mostly portable apps, also on my home desktop comupter (running Windows 7), and is very satisfied with this approach. However, as more and more people are upgrading to Windows 10, I wonder if anybody has any thoughts or experience with using portable apps under Windows 10.

Well,we all use our USB flash to run our portable apps on schools,work or somewhere else.It's cool to be able to use apps anywhere without installing them.But frankly many of us enjoy it until some virus attacks our USB.It's a great frustration.Our apps become lousy,our daily work gets buggy.So what should be done to prevent our USB from these viruses.(Although full control is impossible.)Let's share experiences,guys.

I have portableapps instaled on my hard drive and on a usb drive. I've recently noticed that is I check for updates on the hard drive
installation of Portable Apps, the updates are detected, dolwnloaded and installed...but the usb drive installation does not detect the updates.

Is there a setting that forces portableapps to look only at the drive where I start it?

thanks in advance

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Hello to all,
I created a small portable application to use in conjunction with portable programs on USB key, for example. "PortableApps", which allows you to export a portable program from the stick to the host computer using three methods:
- Copying
- Creating an installer
- Installing it directly on the host PC
and I am looking for someone who wants to help me doing the beta-testers.
The small program is still under development but almost fully functional (beta 0.5)
If someone wants to help me know.
Thank you in advance.

Hi, first of all i'm sorry for my english.

My question is about how i can contribute to the webpage. I've got the old OpenVPN Portable source and i've adapted the installer for me:
- Use of the latest openvpn version (2.3.8) and the latest drivers.
- An admin version for people that need it (for example for add routes to windows Vista and above). The normal version works too, but you need to right click on the exe and run as administrator (and is too hard for some users... i've experience with that).

I want to learn how PortableApps.com handle 64-bit apps.
But, many of apps that have been portablized by PortableApps.com in Portable Apps Directory that I never heard before, so I don't know if it's have an 64-bit variant or not.
And I don't want to try all apps one by one, you know it has 300+ apps on it.

If I were to create a similar program for Linux, would that be considered a violation of copyright? I would of course reference this program as the inspiration.

Why isn't there a subfolder in PortableApps/Common Files for DLL files? I have counted the DLL files on my drive and there are many repeated DLLs. Why not have such a folder?

If I were to run it on Linux using Wine I could manually create that folder and use symbolic links. Is there a similar method that would work on Windows?