General Discussion

Not getting the Autorun menu and "What would you like Windows to do?" dialog box on my home PC for my flash drive and phone. They don't even show up in My Computer. They work as expected on the work computer, though. Any suggestions?

I would like to put portableapps onto an SDHC card which I would leave permanently in my Samsung netbook. How can I get some sort of a start menu (possibly from an icoin in the system tray) to show and run the programs on the SD card?

I'm posting to let the community know that I have informed XeroBank Browser of their violation of the GPL. As many know, XeroBank grew out of TorPark and is a combination of Firefox and Tor to allow secure connections of Firefox to the Tor Onion Router Network for anonymous web browsing. TorPark is based on my own original Portable Firefox code and I worked with the original TorPark developer on the initial versions. As that developer continued to work on it and enhance it and later switched the license from the GPL to a proprietary license that forbids commercial competition.

For some apps such as PAC and RegShot, and in making a PortableApp, you say you need a fresh install of the application, or that the computer must not contain a trace of the application.

Does this mean that it must have never been installed on the computer ever, or will a simple uninstall do, or do i have to use RegEdit and search the registry for the app name and delete the entries?

Please explain...

Hello,

I have an old flash drive that only has the portable versions of Firefox and Pidgin running on it, nothing else. It is incredibly slow. Are there some flash drives that are faster than others? What do I need to look for when shopping for faster drives?

I would like to know what is the difference between making a portable app and a launcher for it. I have seen that in the forums and i want to know what it is.

I have portable apps on my hard drive as well as on my thumb drive. I have kept the thumb drive up-to-date, but have not, actively, used it. IT is possble that it was not used for nearly four weeks. Clawin works fine, but all other apps start up ok, but then stop responding. I was able to get Thunderbird started after updating to v.2.0.0.19 with a new install. But neither Firefox3.0.5, nor OpenOffice went past the basic toolbars, and stopped responding. I had rerun Firefox with no improvement.
Any idea what's going on?

After installing PNotes I realized the need for a launcher that runs besides PAM also other applications each time I insert the USB drive. The proposed method for this is to use a batch file on the drive which is launched by Autorun.inf. In this file you type the commands you want to be run after or before PAM is launched and of course you must think of running PAM itself. This worked fine just by replacing following line in autorun.inf:

Open=PortableApps.exe

with:

Open=Autoexec.bat

and the file Autoexec.bat looks like this:

autoexec.bat
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@echo off

I saw some discussions about the problem with disabled AutoRun which prevents the PAM to be launched automatically. There are 2 ways proposed to avoid this problem. One is the listener which needs installation and the other is a tool from Uwe Sieber (http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html#AutoRun) that can be used to enable the AutoRun for the USB drive. So I suggest for future releases to integrate one of these tools in PAM. The Scenario will then look like this:

I am working on database about portable apps and games. Any suggestions to site?

What kind of files should stuff be? rar/zip, torrent?