General Discussion

I want to learn to make portable application in a way that the applications in portableapps.com are made. I tried to create some applications with ThinApp but in the end it creates just one .exe file and i don't like this because i want to have access to all program settings as the programs here are created. ThinApp doesn't seem to have the option to create the programs this way.

From where to start?

Just did an update via the Portable Apps menu and came up with a virus on one of the apps. This happened only after the update and not before. I wasn't downloading anything else either.

The virus is: Cyrano.exe and it was in the Lucas Chess app.

Is there any scan done of apps prior to them being distributed?

The page announcing the portableapps.com companion USB https://portableapps.com/news/2011-12-08_-_portableapps.com_companion_wo... states the following read/write values:

USB 3.0: up to 85 MB/s read and 44 MB/s write
USB 2.0: up to 37 MB/s read and 28 MB/s write

Expresso/Coffee will work for temporary file associations.

Is there anything for Temporary Context menu when portable drive is attached?

Means without host modifications.

Note : it may be useful when we want our favorite applications to be opened for particular extensions that can be configured in context menu. it will give quick access.(Expresso/coffee will work for one favorite applications) but this will be helpful for use more number of favorite applications.

Let me post your comments and examples of those.

Your SourceForge tracker seems pretty abandoned, but it's still there. Should bugs and feature requests be submitted there? If not, I think you should close it (at least for new submissions).

Hi,

I am thinking of Google Chrome, since the update mechanism does not inform as to any update pending and I am concerned about safety since I don't want to be running any out-of-date applications, particularly those that use the internet.

Also, secondly when a program crashes would it not be a good idea that in the least if an update is provided by the menu that it does the clean up for you?

Cheers and thanks

Is there a way to integrate portable application in windows explorer context menu? For example, the installed version of notepad++ creates "Edit with notepad++" in but the portable version doesn't do this. But i am not asking only for notepad++ but for any application that i want to integrate in the context menu.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,
I am now dealing with an application that will put a shortcut in C:\Documents and Settings\Name\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.
How can I delete or move the shortcut in this directory? Thanks for help.

Something that I've begun to do recently is writing my applications in web technologies with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The reason for this is that it has many benefits, cross-platform being a big one. However, it wasn't the biggest one that I saw. Maintainability and ease of development were the biggest. The code-base for my apps would stay very simple and easy to understand to any web developer. Changes could be made very easily and quickly given HTML's dynamic capabilities.

Dear Mr.John
Is it possible for the platform to be resigned so that it would open in full screen mode and the apps arranged to appear like icons in a windows desktop?. This might in fact act like a Portable Desktop Environment.Hope u will consider the suggestion
with regards
Gayathri