General Discussion

I have many apps on my flash drive. Oh, who am I kidding? I practically live off of it. Anyways I have the PA Platform and have set a few apps to run on start-up of the platform (AquaSnap, AIMP, WinPenguins, etc.)So I plugged my flash drive into a school computer that has Windows 7 installed and has no Quick Start Menu and has task manager restricted. I forgot at the time and thus opened WinPenguins. A few minutes later, my Web Design class started. I tried every possible way I could think of to try and exit the program, but to no avail. In the end, I had to restart the computer.

Is anyone else seeing issues with the displaying of the PortableApps homepage? For the last 12-18 hours, a lot of the images seem to be missing (is the CDN working ok?). This is what I see with Firefox:
http://i.imgur.com/li96mVF.png

With Internet Explorer:
http://i.imgur.com/ReQEtUn.png

I am not able to install eclipse 4.2. The error is

Output folder: H:\Program Files\Portable Apps\PortableApps\EclipsePortable\App\Eclipse\features\org.eclipse.recommenders.feature.3rd.rcp.nonorbit_1.0.0.v20120612-2305-b156\META-INF\maven
Output folder: H:\Program Files\Portable Apps\PortableApps\EclipsePortable\App\Eclipse\features\org.eclipse.recommenders.feature.3rd.rcp.nonorbit_1.0.0.v20120612-2305-b156\META-INF\maven\org.eclipse.recommenders.feature


Hi,

I use a lot several of the portableapps programs. Once in a while, I like to go to the portableapps to check if there are any new interesting applications. Therefore, I was wondering if there is a list to subscribe for receiving an email any time there is a release of a new application (I am not talking about new updates for existing programs) with information about what the application does. It may already exist something like this, if so, please let me know. Otherwise, it would be interesting to have it in the near future.
Thanks,
Peter

Greetings from a new PortableApps member.
Win.XP.SP3.

After I installed this app by executing the paf.exe, then running 'FoxitReaderPortable.exe', my firewall (Comodo) reports it as trying to modify registry keys in HKLM... !
The same for when exiting the app!

I thought PortableApps were supposed to run as 'standalone' and not make any file changes outside the directory they're installed in.

As I'm new to this scene, can anyone please advise?

Thanks.
Michael.

well so in short of it

before i reinstalled windows and download update via PAP of Audacity (few months ago) audacity was working just fine

today i launch it and nothing happen after splash screen appear
i always install same programs and stuff on new windows (xp pro 32 by the way)

so there is no way it could be something im missing or installed wrong version i have same visuall c++ same netframework same service pack

i used uncle google and i found other guy who had same problem but well did not find solution

I have PA installed in my Dropbox folder, and it's working fine for most purposes. The problem is that when PA updates applications on one computer, if I have left it running on another computer, I get a file version conflict in the 'update.ini' file, and PA then updates the same programs on each computer rather than realizing that the program is already updated.

Is there any way to avoid this? (other than remembering to close PA every time I leave one of my computers, obviously)

Thanks!

Newbie here,

I use Win HTTrack and FileZilla on my local drives and I'm considering the PortableApps approach so I can work from any device with one good up to date backup instead of a bunch of different versions.

Question:
Can someone prep me on how the PA versions of HTTrack and/or FileZilla handle backup. Should I assume it treats the PA site as a cloud.

Also, should I assume this is true for many/most/all Portable Apps.

Thanks for any help

I suppose that generally speaking, bitmaps (.bmp files) do not normally support transparancy. Programs can be coded with magic pink support to render the ff00ff color as transparent in a bitmap. I used GIMP to create an 48x48 bitmap image to use as my personal picture on the Portable Apps platform thinking that the "transparent" (pink) areas on the image would allow the chosen platform theme color to render through the image. Oddly enough, what it actually did was create a hole or window straight through the areas that had the pink.

I'm just curious: would it be worth making also offline installers? You know, not everyone has a fast internet connection.