General Discussion

I've read the "How it works" page, but it didn't give an actual answer to someone who is a bit more 'tech savy' than your average person. I'd like to know how a program is changed to bypass the Windows Registry, and other things that tie a program to a single computer. Any answers?

Just thought I'd inform you all that BlueMSX, an MSX emulator that can run the original two Metal Gears (1987, 1990) and other MSX games, can run off of any USB. Simply copy paste it's program files into a file in your flash drive and you can run it anywhere!

A while back i planned on developing explorer++, well I'm a slacker and never got around to it, and have lost any mind I had on making portableapps

Well here it is, since portableapps is starting to take freeware, and I have permission from the Author, David, to portablize it, I'll put it up for grabs for anyone who wants it.

If you need/want his email to me with permissions and that fun stuff, nab on on gtalk or however else you might be able to get me or PM me on the IRC (i'm almost always on, if not in the room) my nick is alpha1beta

I found out that someone made portable firefox for mac!

http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/firefox

Also, another person made an (outdated) version that works on mac AND pc.

http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/

i'm newbie and interested in creating a portable app however i know little about IT, can any one give me detail instruction for this job. as detail as possible. thanks in advanced.

The subject says it all: How well do our Apps handle Standby / Hibernate?

I just responded to someone in the german forum. He woke up his PC from hibernate with Thunderbird Portable still running and it downloaded all his messages again (~1000) He killed Thunderbird, got several windows errors in the process and now his SD card is unreadable.

This made ma aware of the problem that I don't know what happens in hibernate with our Apps. What if the app is woken up before the launcher starts? Has anyone ever considered this problem when coding a launcher?

I need more help support and apps translated into "spanish" español Thanks

Dear all,
may name is Claus and I would like to ask, its possible to install a Microsoft ".Net" environment and from Documentum the "DFC5.3 System" to PortableApps? Please let me know if this possible.
A other question are, when you have applications they will NOT asking, in which target folder you will install, in this case its possible to install this application to PortableApps too?....

Thanks a lot from
Claus

"How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"

I found this to be a very Long, but very interesting read.

Some of it would Not apply to us, but much of it does.
[Our behavior standards lean more toward the Higher/Politer/Helpfuler side ]

New comers of course will not likely see this before posting but it would be of great value to some members in how to improve their questions and responses.

Something I've just realised... Why are MD5 hashes posted for the installer downloads?!

This hash function was effectivly obsoleted years ago because of the security problems it has - specifically the ones when it's used for this purpose! Couldn't something like the SHA512 - or at a minimum the SHA1 hashes be posted instead? (Or as well as the MD5)