General Discussion

Long ago I remember seeing posts recommending against auto-updating portableapps and specified that they should be only updated using the portableapp installers. If allowed to auto-update, the apps supposedly began to leave some files in the local profile. Obvsiously this doesn't apply to ALL apps.

What is the current consensus for this? Do we let them update themselves or turn it off and do it manually?

This is just an idea .....but as a fund raising idea what about getting USB sticks
from a major manufacture.... No junk...good quality 4-8-16? gig sticks and installing the platform, and maybe having a folder with all the currant apps in it.
If the sticks could be custom made...even maybe to look like the icon that would be cool also.
I would pay a premium price for this knowing that the extra money would go to R&D for PortableApps.com.

Just my idea to help.

Keep up the great work... PortableApps.co RULES !!!

Thank you for your time.

As I have a portable hard drive, and particularly now the new launcher includes an auto-updater, I was considering building a directory with all of the apps installed, which I could then keep up to date easily. Saves me finding I need something that I'd forgotten to download

I've been using PortableApps for at least 6 months now. I keep three USB Sticks:

1 - Apps that download/process personal data (Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin etc)
2 - General Apps I (might) use on a regular basis
3 - Misc Apps I don't use regularly, but might come in handy.

I sync these between machines, so I use the apps from local drives rather than the sticks themselves.

As initial point I extract a installer file with Universal Extractor or 7-zip. If I now use the extracted program exe-file with the command line, will anyhow created registry entries or some stuff in the filesystem? Or is it possible, that occur in this special case entirely portability?

The next PA.c (Status) Update will be posted tomorrow afternoon NYC time. I'm finishing up a couple things to include.

That's the number of apps I counted in the directory. If we continue these 1-app-per-day releases, we should have 491 before new years!

Just thought that would interest someone...

Hi,

I must say my knowledge is quite limited and I apologise if the answer to this question is obvious, but I don't understand why some applications such as VirtuaWin or Notepad++, which are already portable, are packaged into portableapps.

Actually I never understood why programs need to be "installed" - perhaps it is needed for non-free softwares (to avoid the software being easily replicated on another computer), but why do most open source softwares also need to be installed?

Hello,

The new patch of Win :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=96ca61f6-8b1...

Can I restore this feature or is there another solution ?

Thanks,

FB

You guys may have some suggestions.

I'd like to be able to go to a 3rd party computer (internet cafe etc) and convert a downloaded (avi, flv etc.) file to my usb and then convert the file to a file compatible with a DVD player.
In VLC I see you can convert a number of files to 'Div3'. (It doesn't seem to be an executable file on my netbook(which is fine) but I'd like to know if converting to Div3 is usally a good bet for using on a portable DVD player.