General Discussion

Since there´s no Tips & Tricks forum, I assume the better place to post may be here.

I´ve seen a lot of people asking how to create shortcuts with relative paths in windows, some say it´s just no supported etc etc At the end of the day there are several ways, like creating a windows shortcut files (.ink) or using a bat file wich can be converted to an exe with an icon file. Anyway non of both are ideal / have several disadvantages, so I´m going to share a method that works great for me and hopefully it may be useful for you as well.

Hi

My antivirus software picked up a virus / malware in the downloaded file
PAK_GENERIC.001

Is this an issue?

Can Portable CCleaner (https://portableapps.com/node/12969) clean my Portable Firefox and other PortableApps, and how?

Watch this:

[Link temporarily removed by mod JTH due to some issues]

Only for PortableApps.com.

I'm getting a new PC soon and I'm not sure whether I should get 32 or 64 bit Windows 7. Right now I'm very happy with my portable apps on 32 bit XP. Can I expect to get the same smooth experience on 64 bit Windows 7?

Hi,

I'll add my opinion of the requirement of the filename of the portable app installer which need internet connection. I think that is so molest. I think is better a window that request the approbation of the internet access, also as the license screen.

Please consider this

Greets!

Looks like Lupo, who has taken many PortableApps.com releases and, *ehem*, rebranded them as his own, is at it again. This time, he's taken C.A.F.E. Mod and just changed the name to "Coffee" and made it seem like his own work from its webpage.
http://www.lupopensuite.com/db/coffee.htm

It was on lifehacker today:
http://lifehacker.com/5415266/coffee-temporarily-assigns-primary-seconda...

We're experiencing a delay in new open source releases due to issues at SourceForge.net. The ability for us to release new software has been down since Wednesday afternoon and appears it will be down until Monday morning when they are back in the office. In addition, SourceForge.net itself has been having intermittent outages nearly every day during this time.

Hello
Just downloaded Skype Portable.
The download page states that the file is about 25Mb but the file was only 608K.
When the installer was running it connects to the internet and downloaded the rest of the file and placed it somewhere and continued the installation. It all went o/k.

The only problem now is that the application runs in Hebrew and not English. I have no idea how to change the language.
Can someone please help?
Thanks

OK, I use about a dozen portable apps on my hard drive without any problems. As a partial evangelist for portable apps, I have a question:

1. Is having your portable apps on a PC folder (NOT program files\) safer than installing the regular version and have it show up in Program Files\ folder? Does malware target that folder (I would assume yes)? So are we safer with portable apps on some other folder?