General Discussion

Does anyone know a way to get a portable program which doesnt have its own internal spelling dictionaries, but has support for external dictionaries, to use a stand-alone dictionary of some sort for its spell check function?

I'm trying to use the portable version of Smart Diary Suite Free edition and I'd like to find a way to add a dictionary to my USB drive that it could read..

maybe someone knows about another portableapps program that has its own dictionary that I could point to?

I was wondering if there was an app out there that could be made portable that could automatically disable unnecessary services to speed up a computer.. iolo System Mechanic 9 and up comes with such a program, called Energy Booster, and it does a really nice job.. I would love to have something similar on my PortableApps list to use on peoples computers when I do tune-ups for them.

How I can make the installer that will create a folder at data?
thanks, tal.

Hi. I've been enjoying your guys' platform for some time now. I try to donate to software companies whose creations I enjoy.

Money has been kind of tight for me in recent months. I've been wanting to donate some money to PA for a while. Through chance, I received a retail Logitech K270 via a warranty repair. It uses unifying receiver. Would any developer working on this project be in need?

If so please message me.

Thanks PA.

I have Firefox Portable, standalone (without the whole PortableApps suite).
Firefox itself (Firefox.exe inside the App\Firefox folder) obviously needs an internet connection to function.

But recently I noticed that FirefoxPortable.exe attempted an outgoing connection as well, which was intercepted by my firewall.
I forgot to check the IP, but anyway..
This is not something I expect from an executable that is only supposed to start a program.

IIRC the same happened with Thunderbird Portable.

Sorry it seems that this question is a bit redundant but I really get troubled.
I read so many similar topics and the beginner manual, but there is still a problem:
how to redirect the settings into the portable directory instead of leaving them in the system?
I tried making apps in PortableApps format and replaced the files in other apps with my app, or build a directory with the portable directory structure, but they are still useless.
Please help. Thanks.

PS sorry for my poor English. I hope someone will understand and help me. Thanks.

Tried VMware ThinApp and Cameyo to make Max Payne 3 portable. That game is around 30 GB and consist of a launcher in a separate folder. But the package builds failed.

Though I managed to get it all portable by a simple batch script + junction v1.06 to create symbolic links with.

Here's the batch:
1. It needs to correct current directory because that can change when running as admin
2. Then it needs to correct %DOCUMENTS% environment var because that don't work too, if your computer has changed language during installation etc.

I waffled about whether to put this in General Discussion or Off Topic, but figured as this applied to the site, this is best.

I had a thought recently, that it might make sense to clean up the "Our Team" page by adding a "Past Contributors" heading, and moving those contributors, be they Developers or otherwise, who are no active in working with the site in some fashion, so as to provide a more accurate picture of the number of current contributors to the community.

FYI: download link states "Download FocusWriter Portable" instead of "Download Sigil Portable".
https://portableapps.com/apps/office/sigil-portable

Greetings,

a few days ago I did a virus scan (with ClamWin Portable) of a WinXP box with JKDefrag (non portable apps) installed - it came up with a virus, so I scanned my portable apps usb containing JKDefrag Portable and it also came up with a virus - about a half hour ago I downloaded the latest version of JKDefrag and got

C:\Download\Install\PA_2013_Q1\JkDefragPortable_3.36_Rev_2.paf.exe: Win.Trojan.Autoit-350 FOUND

via ClamWin.