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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Themes / Skins

Submitted by GiGo on October 2, 2025 - 8:33am

I posted something ages ago about skins/themes but didn't get any replies.

Is skinning or applying themes to the App Launcher possible without modifying the 'default' skins? I've searched and found very little other than using patheme files or a folder located in `PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\Themes` but that didn't work, I also tried the default directory for themes and that didn't work.

Can anyone point me in the right direction, or at least tell me if it's possible?

chrome offline installers do not work (error 404 not found)

Submitted by j8619621 on September 27, 2025 - 1:43pm

I can't find any offline installer for a specific old chrome version and the online installer has failed as I expected with an error 404 not found. I can not use latest version as it is not compatible with my OS. Can you please replace the online installers with offline installers, for all old versions of chrome?

I think I can fix the issue with Google Chrome Portable not loading extensions?

Submitted by LRTAPP on September 21, 2025 - 12:55pm

I also upgraded from 139 to 140, but all my add-ons are still there.

First, delete everything in the [Data] folder next to the app in the portable version of Google Chrome. Please save your Google Chrome data beforehand to avoid losing it.

Then restart Google Chrome, log in to your Google Account, and sync your data. Once the sync is complete, all your existing add-ons will automatically load and install in Google Chrome.

GMKVExtractGUIPortable: How to solve new problems?

Submitted by LRTAPP on August 29, 2025 - 6:41am

GMKVExtractGUIPortable: How to solve new problems?

The previous path problem has been solved and new problems have emerged.

sorry .How to solve the new problem of error reporting?

Software error tips are as follows:
Could not find MkvToolNix in registry,orin the currentdirectory,or in
the ini file!
Please download and reinstall or provide a manual path!

[gMKVExtractGUI] How to solve the problems when using it?

Submitted by LRTAPP on August 28, 2025 - 7:28am

When I launch the portable version of gMKVExtractGUIPortable, I get the message [gMKVExtractGUI Portable requires MKVToolNix Portable installed, along with the following location:] [C:(Users\Administrator(Desktop)MKVToolNixPortable] [Would you like to visit the MKVToolNix Portable homepage to download the app now?] How can I resolve this?
Please provide the correct portable installation path. Thank you.

Whats your experience with running web browsers via cloud

Submitted by Shadohz on August 27, 2025 - 9:56pm

Originally I had PortableApp installed to my Google Drive account. Everything worked but it was sooo sluggish to launch PA applications and my PC seemed to take longer to idle down after a restart. The worse offending thing seemed to be running web browsers from cloud. Google Drive was constantly uploading temp files from the web browers (google/firefox/opera) as I used them. This not only slowed down my network but I constantly had to purge my GD trashcan of these files.

FileZilla has restartable download after fail

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Submitted by johnswolter on August 21, 2025 - 8:08pm

https://filezilla-project.org/ has restartable download after fail

I have an Internet service which Speed tests to 0.58 mbps. It is slow, yes. PrortableApps downloads will fail on my computer. Its download code can't restart from a failure point. Thus there are problems of installing Apps and updating Apps.

How to connect the hosts.txt file to the program

Submitted by Natacha1956 on August 17, 2025 - 5:11am

Help me understand how to implement the function of adding my hosts.txt file to the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file in PortableApps in such a way that before loading (a copy of the original hosts file was made to the hosts_backup file name), it was added hosts.txt to hosts, and after closing the program, the hosts file was deleted from hosts_backup and renamed to the original name? Just write where to write the names of the .cmd or .bat files that will be run, because I can't find information about this in your documentation. Thank you.

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