General Discussion

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

I'd like to be able to track and maybe revert if possible changes to a system done by an application.

In this way, I can test portable apps that I'm unsure are fully portable.

What application can I use for this?

thanks

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One of my favorite natively portable freeware launchers, Cylog Toolbox, has posted a beta for their 3.0 release. I've been following them on Twitter, and they've done a lot of work on this major release.
Check out the list of new features (under Coming up in ToolBox v3.00):
http://www.cylog.org/utilities/toolbox.jsp

Even the old version had some great stuff, like drag-and-drop shortcuts, switch to relative paths at the click of a button, change icons easily, wallpaper and transparency backgrounds, and support for multiple toolboxes.

I was using Internet Exploder on my school's PC to go over and download some portableapps, when something odd occurred. I went to install google chrome, and it asked if I want to open or save the program as normal. (the only good feature of IE imo) I hit open, and it said that it won't run because it isn't named online.paf. However, the problem is if you open a file in Internet Exploder instead of hitting save, it give it a random name before opening it, therefore breaking the installer.

Another reason to hate IE I suppose.