General Discussion

I am new to Portable Apps and would like to know how to create my own apps for my USB drive. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks much!!

I was just wondering, what are the benefits/drawbacks/differences of each. I am currently using R31, but I was wondering if I should go to R30 or PAM 1.1
I was just concerned that some of my configurations might be lost if I did change. Also, will my themes [for R31] work with the other ones?
Thanks

Are there problems with opening a portable exe while on a public computer. I travel with a motorcycle and I'm tired of bringing my lappie. I have partitioned a 2.5 enclosure so I could install Ubuntu on one drive with my data on separate drives. I did this in the hope that I could boot into Ubuntu on a library computer but you can't boot because you don't have admin rights to change the boot order so......

So I'm hoping I can install portable apps on the drive and use these apps to access my enclosure data.

Will a public computer allow me to open a portable exe?

considering the focus here is simplicity and lightweigth, I dont understand the concept behind putting a splash screen that starts up as a separate processes and remains there after the portable app has booted.

Can I bypass it and go straight to the main app without affecting the portable functionality?

Tried a few times to enter an application with a .exe. When going through the process and reache the point of browsing for the application the only box selection is *.paf.exe ? The drop down does not have just for the .exe?

Hi.. I'm pretty new here.. and I checked whole forum, dl the apps put them on my brand new usb flesh pocket thingy and get dissapointed by speed... I have no idea why but all apps are slow as hell (on the other side from pc itself it's fast as hell but who cares about pc).. they are simply useless.. all of them.. I wait like 20-25s to FF just to load, 10sec to check email in TB, I'm not mentioning OOO, etc. etc... So.. Is my USB flesh shitty? Is USB 2.0 shitty? Am I shitty? Are all portApps shitty? What's wrong with it? The whole idea of portable life don't work... what to do?

(There was a similar discussion last year https://portableapps.com/node/5069)

Now the 1.1 is the official version, what do you think is coming next?
Yes, I know, the PA Platform 1.5.
But whats happening next year, in 2 or 3 years?
I think there won't be an PAM OS ever, so it useless to discuss, but what could be happend? Is PA still alive in 3 years?
What's coming up? My prognosis:
1 Years: 1st ports to Mobile Phones.
1-2 Years: The Platform supports widgets.
2 Years: The Platform becomes to a desktop.

Hi there

Does anyone knows how to modify the default name of an application ?
What i want to do is to change "Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition" into something shorter.

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I tried to modify the "Name" value located into the [Details] section of \\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\App\AppInfo\appinfo.ini but without any result...

Can this be done ?
Thanx
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Franck

Hi, I need to know how to quit the tray icon of portable apps menu and other currently apps.

I need that the program continues to operate but without this icon.

Thanks

I'm packaging the Suite 1.1 and have hit a block. PNotes, which used to work with Windows 9x no longer does. It looks like it's due to use of advanced window features (like transparency). Right now, everything else in the Suite works on Windows 98 and above (most Windows 95). We'll be dropping that requirement in the next Suite because it will have Firefox 3 (and eventually Thunderbird 3) which only support Windows 2000 and up.

So, I'm thinking of pulling PNotes from the Suite for now. Any thoughts?