General Discussion

HELLO
I am a complete novice newbie here so please bear with me.
Does Pa work like a portable hard drive with all your info on the flash drive.
What is the difference between a portable version of an application & the normal version , is it just a slimed down version of the full program so it takes up less space.
I noticed that a lot of the applications that are in the program are linux based , i have been forever trying to get to grips with linux but the sudo jobbie is a bit to dos like for me.

Hi,

I would like to open a PDF file on my computer using the Sumatra PDF Portable application.
Currently, the only way to do so is to open the application, and select File->Open from its user interface. Another option would be to open the application, then drag'n'drop the PDF file on its window.

cruzer micro , u3 , i dont want the launcher..i just want the softwares...so if i wre to install portable softwares from portableapps.com and install them in my u3...will the u3 launcher show their ".exe" file?...or do i need to manually go inside the folder and launch my application...??

P.s...
u3 stinks...its just that its 8gb ....and this is my second thumb drive...my first thumbdrive has portableapps...need more details do ask...

Everytime I load a portableapp, there is a picture that appears of a dark red USB Sticks and something that looks like an upside down candle holder. Or is it something else? It's not some satanic symbol is it?

I guess only John knows for sure. John, what is the symbol?

I noticed this block of text in the readme.txt in /Other/Source for the latest Notepad++ Portable

The SkipBackups entry allows you to disable the launcher's automatic backup
functionality.  This is useful when running MoneyManagerEX Portable on a USB flash drive with
the read/write switch set to read-only, thus avoiding the write-protection errors that
would be produced.

However, SkipBackups isn't one of the entries listed in the ini definition block a few lines above that, is not in the Notepad++Portable.ini file, and doesnt appear to be coded into the launcher.

GnuCash 2.2.6 has been released (release notes here). The most notable change to our benefit is the new support for aqbanking 3. Aqbanking provides the online banking support in GnuCash, and version 2 required HKLM registry entries to work in Windows so it wasn't portable for non-admin users. Aqbanking 3 supposedly solves this problem, which should make GnuCash fully portable on non-admin accounts.

I am very curious to know, out of interest alone.

I am totally amazed how easy it is to use these apps, and when I created a new TrueCrypt file, all I had to do was drag all the files over, and that was it! So easy!

So I am confused.... How is that possible?

When we install applications such as firefox, vlc, thunderbird etc, they always write stuff into the registry.

So how do portableapps still work and run without writing and reading anything into the registry?

Thanks.

Can I use PortableApps and all the other apps from this website with confidence knowing that it is 100% legal and not breaching any (c) laws?

Thank you for understanding my concern.

Is there a way I can change the order of apps in the menu. For example, I want Firefox and Thunderbird to appear at the top of the menu. Can this be done?

Thank you.