General Discussion

Was the integrated wallpaper switcher ever updated to work with windows 8? I've followed the instructions as listed on the support page but when I launch portableapps it changes my wallpaper to black instead of the bmp I have.

I'm loving portableapps.com so far but there are three functionalities that are giving me some trouble. I was hoping someone in the forum could offer some assistance.

1. Built In Wallpaper Switcher: I love the idea but I can not seem to figure out how to implement the function. I saved the desired image as a 24 bit Bitmap named "portableapps_wallpaper.bmp" and placed it into the pictures folder but nothing happened.

Reason: I use a Faronics Deep Freeze like solution for system security. And portable apps. But I am admin.

If you scroll down here: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/RelatedProjects

You find this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovpnp/
Discontinued for good.

Any solution for me?

My (limited) understanding is that the PortableApps Platform creates a folder in the root of its own drive called Documents. Within this folder are Music, Pictures, and Videos folders.

1. What are the consequences of deleting this Documents folder and its contents when the PortableApps Platform is running from NON-removable storage?

2. What are the consequences of deleting this Documents folder and its contents when the PortableApps Platform is running from removable storage?

If I change from Windows default of 96 DPI to 110, does that affect the displayed pixel size of say, a selected area in a screen capture or drawing?
Like in PicPick or Paint.net?

I can't determine exactly how changing Windows' system DPI setting to a non-default value affects the displayed sizes of objects in screen capture or image editing programs.

Inkscape Portable 0.48.5-1 (InkscapePortable 0.48.5-1) left file in the LocalAppData folder. I found that out from monitoring it with Regshot. How to fix that? There is no nsh setting file included with this release.

I just installed the Clearly addon for my portable firefox (it cleans up a lot of gunk that I don't want, when I save a web page as a file on my computer). I didn't actually want to print it, but simply to save it as a PDF.

Can this be done via portable apps?

Since the last two updates for SeaMonkeyPortable, it is opening up with a black screen. I experienced the same thing with latest updates to FirefoxPortable and managed to turn off hardware acceleration because of my familiarity with it and it's working now.

This is only happening on my Dell Optiplex 390. On my Optiplex 3010, this does not happen and SeaMonkey and FireFox have had no problems. Should I add a better graphics card? I've stopped using SeaMonkey for now.

Has this been reported already?

Larissa

I'm going to post some modified theme files to my google drive. Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Qo4xLF16dSem9BUlRhMnRrcWs/view?usp=sh...

Use 7-Zip Portable to extract the archive and paste the 'Graphics' folder into your own PortableApps.com folder in E:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App
Then open Options and select you theme! The ones that are modified are:
Classic Dark
Flat Dark
Glassy Dark
Modern Dark
Smooth Dark (duplicate with less transparency than Modern Dark)

How does one unblock portable apps from running. I am trying to run firefox and vlc and the apps will not boot. The portable apps logo will come up along with the firefox picture and then nothing. please help!!!!!