General Discussion

Hello.... My name is Matthew... vs50d1969.

I'm born in USA and now living in The Netherlands...Holland.

It's along story...but i'll make it short. I needed something to keep passwords for all the web sites and banks and this and that....you know how it goes.

Some guy at a computer store said to go to portable apps and check it out.

I did.... I'M SOLD!

This is the best thing since sliced bread and the internet.

I use it all the time.... my wife uses it also.

I don't know what I would do with out your help.

It would be nice to have current guidance on what to do when an application displays an automatic update notification. I have seen a post from 2006, for example, and it would be nice to have newer information.

For example, Thunderbird recently notified me that there was a newer version, and since I didn't know at the time whether it was safe or not, I did not install it. But this is not a question about Thunderbird.

My Anti-virus program reports that xcdns.dll in the PChat plugins folder is a Trojan DNS program that monitors and steals my information and sends it back to someone.

Can someone test the portableapps PChat and tell me what's going on?

Hello. I am new at this forum so i am sorry if this goes in wrong place.

How long does it take to put Portable Linux? It has been saying "coming soon" for like a year.

So I got a new netbook today, and I was being annoyed with having to transfer files back and forth all the time. Saving settings like bookmarks, mail, and all that jazz was becoming very annoying. Plus I just did not like the idea of having a pen drive perm attached to my netbook!

SO!!! I went and created me a free ZumoDrive account (http://www.zumodrive.com) which gives you 2 gigs of space completely for free.

It registers as a drive (like any other cloud drive) on your computer, so I installed portable apps platform to it, and I was amazed to see that it worked really well!

Hello everybody. Now, if anybody reads this i want to ask you something, PortableApps.com now excepts {Freeware} software right, well if so it showed on the wikipedia that Opera’s license is Proprietary (Freeware) with open-source components. Now, does that mean that Opera is actually Freeware, well if thats true and PortableApps.com now supports Freeware software, i thought that Opera would make a good portable app and i would like to request it, but only if i’m not wasting anybody's time.

recently i have downloaded some portable software,such as UltraISOportable,xnviewportable,winrarportable,etc.i got trouble when using them

UltraISOportable:i run UltraISOportable.exe,it shows itself registed,then i checked"options"-"configration"-"integation"-"associate" with "iso" files,then i double click an iso file,a popup window shows and tells me "UltraISO is not registered"

winrarportable:same problem as UltraISOportable

xnviewportable:similar problem as UltraISOportable,when i double click a JPG file,xnview runs,but settings i have done in xnviewportable are all lost

Is there a way to make portable apps like Pidign or other apps that have clickable support links default to the portable browser like Firefox?

Case in point was I went to launch Skype from Portable apps, forgot password clicked forgot password and it opened the computers default browser not the PA browser.

Same when I clicked on the Pidgin help defaulted to the computers browser.

This is a concept idea that I thought of and I think it would be cool if could be implemented into the website.

It would be like a checkout system on a online store.

1) You would select the applications you want to download on the application list or on the apps page.

2) Once your done you will "checkout" and download the installer and the list of apps you want to download.

3) Then you run the installer it checks, you select where you want all of them to be installed to if the PA.c menu is not installed or selected it will ask if you want it or not.

It has come to our attention that McAfee's family of antivirus products is currently using a majorly broken set of antivirus definitions and finding false positive in several portable launchers and lots of other software.

Current affected products include:
- The PortableApps.com Platform
- Pidgin Portable
- GIMP Portable (I can't confirm this, VirusTotal says GIMPPortable.exe is fine by McAfee)
- OpenOffice.org Portable (I can't confirm this, VirusTotal says OpenOfficePortable.exe is fine by McAfee)
- and others