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Submitted by vostro on September 22, 2014 - 5:26am

hi, im using a portable firefox. i updated it. when i try to download avast anti virus, i could not open the file. it says that, i should update the internet download manager. unfortunately, the update just could not finish. i dont the reason why. my idm has a crack file. could it be the reason? thanks for your help.

Sysinternals Process Explorer - Not Portable?

Submitted by KhunRoger on September 20, 2014 - 7:33am

When Sysinternals' "Process Explorer" runs, it uses the registry to store its settings.

So when it is run on a PC that already has been set up to use Process Explorer (i.e. columns selected, colours chosen, font chosen, etc), these settings get irretrievably lost by the version of Process Explorer run from a PortableApps thumb drive.

"A portable app doesn't leave registry entries behind except those automatically generated by Windows"

All Portable Apps Crash!

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Submitted by Lord_Theren on September 17, 2014 - 7:54pm

Occasionally when I am running the PortableApps platform off of my 500GB Toshiba Canvio Connect Portable Hard Drive, all of the apps will crash and display the following message in a balloon from the notification area:

Windows-Delayed Write Failed

Windows was unable to save all the data for E:/@BitMap. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

Taskcoach crashes when opening an existing file

Submitted by MobileUser on September 15, 2014 - 1:05am

I use TaskCoach on a daily basis and would like to thanks to your term providing this program.
This was a nice program until I upgraded it to 1.4.0 version.
Everytime I open an existing file in Chinese format it crashes.
There is no problems for other files in English format.
I have never had this problem.
It is fine if I load the same file with the version of 1.3.39
I believe that the there is a bug with the latest verion.
Can you please look into this issue? Thanks in advance.

[Fixed] PA.c Installer says 'not enough free space' when installing via platform to UNC path

Submitted by bamboo on September 11, 2014 - 8:25am

I am storing apps on a large NAS with lots of free space.
Several times I have seen this issue, where it is reported that the target device does not have sufficient space ... the current problem was with 'seamonkey.' ( I don't know how to paste the message into this note.) Other apps that download at the same time do update however.
I have tried the update of seamonkey by itself with the same resulting error.
Any suggestions?

Good app to put my computer to sleep at a scheduled time?

Submitted by trust on September 9, 2014 - 7:49pm

I could not really find what I was looking for, with the search.

I used Daxtar's Shutdown Timer so far but I have just discovered the sleep function does not work with newest Windows 7 updates. Or at least with my machine/the updates I added; instead of putting my computer to sleep it just logs off (then it runs the whole night; which I do not want).

The solution does not necessarily have to be portable; just more convenient than Windows 7's built-in solution.

Thanks in advance

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