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Boot ISO/EXE

Submitted by soevel on November 28, 2022 - 9:10am

hi, i want to have a 1 bootable USB stick to run portableapps (exe directly) but also that i can choose to work with .iso file.
Is there a way to have this?
Or if not available, is there a way to make 2 partitions on a USB stick that both are bootable? When I set Rufus on partition1 and want Ventoy on partition 2, ventoy will delete all content/MBR on the complete USB stick and not only on 1 partition. Backwards is the same issue because Rufus also deletes it all.

Latest Frhed is in the WinMerge

Submitted by maboroshin on November 20, 2022 - 2:15pm

There is forks in the Frhed of the Hex editor. But Frhed is a fork of WinMerge. It appears to be returning to its official repository.

  • Sourceforge (2009): https://frhed.sourceforge.net/

Currently, Portable Apps is making this version into portable. Version 1.6.0 and alpha version 1.7.1. Translation files in 3 languages are available.

Automatically Update Chrome

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Submitted by 乃尺凵刀口 on November 2, 2022 - 8:30pm

So I use the portable version of Chrome because I don't like having folders being created on my AppData but is there a way to have the update folder be on the same folder as where my Chrome is so it can update automatically and also so it stops creating the update folder on my AppData, because it's always empty

Empty Update Window

Submitted by OLLI_S on October 21, 2022 - 12:04pm

I have version 22.0.1 of the PortableApps platform.
Today the "PortableApps Updater" window is shown, but here there is no application listed, that should be updated.
Here at home I have a direct connection to the internet (no proxy).

I had have the same problem at work, but here I only have Google Chrome portable installed.
Here I can download the GoogleChrome portable package and select to add an app manually.
At work I thought this might be a proxy problem or firewall restriction, so I did not write a posting.

How often are apps rescanned on VirusTotal

Submitted by PortableGood on October 18, 2022 - 2:15am

My understanding is that all PortableApps.com apps are scanned by VirusTotal before they are approved to be served to the PortableApps.com Platform.

Is this understanding correct?

If so, how often are they rescanned? The engines and definitions used by VirusTotal are always improving, and so rescanning is obviously important.

Of course, VirusTotal can easily miss malware, so it should only be used as a small component of any security setup.

Caesium image compressor not updated

Submitted by maboroshin on October 15, 2022 - 3:21pm

Caesium Portable: https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/caesium-portable

Caesium Portable was last updated version 1.7 in 2014. But, The latest version is 2.21.

The project appears moved to GitHub at 2020. This became version 2.0 and there were major specification changes.
https://github.com/Lymphatus/caesium-image-compressor/releases/tag/v2.0....

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