General Discussion

Okay, instead of posting thanks topics, lets put all our thanks here to John and the Devs. Then we know how much thanks there is.
I'll go first:
Thanks everyone for being such a helpful bunch of people. I could never have learned how to even make an EXE without your help. Special Thanks to John and Rab040ma, John for starting this and Rab040ma for teaching me so much about how to make a portable app.

Ok is there anyway to do a uninstall like most other programs like this have. Like i can have stuff in My Documents folder on my usb drive and i can install everything but that my documents file. Cause now i only see the ability to format the driver or delete the other folders as a way to uninstall.
Thanks
Shawn

I was wondering, I use the R30 menu mod, and would like it is I could get the folder icons for documents and video, without the folder.

I mean, just think. All the other crappy things we would be stuck using. If it wasnt for john we would never be here.
TY JOHN!!!

A while after I installed the portable apps suite, my USB name changed to portableapps, and I cannot rename it back, as it reverts back to "portableapps" all the time. I've read some of the previous topics, that it has to do with autorun.inf but I've had no luck. I tried changing it and even deleting the file but I still cannot rename it. Please help, as my USB name is bothering me greatly.

Is there any gps software that I could use by just throwing it on my thumb drive?

I just updated the press page with stuff from the last couple months. New stuff from CNET, lifehacker, ZDNet, downloadsquad, Information Week, CHIP, Google. I think someone said we were recently download of the day on Download.com, too, but I couldn't find it. Anything else we're missing?

https://portableapps.com/about/press/news

if u think that this should be posted in the request app's section and i understand what you are thinking but this is, yet to say, my discussion and my opinion.

Dear John,

Looking through different launchers it seems every one is different specific depending on the current application. Currently developers just have to 'wing it' to make a new launcher.

Now I know you are planning (or already building) a kind of installer/launcher creation application which I really look forward to. But before you can make the app itself you have to create a launcher that features every possible action needed to make an installer.

I think it would be useful to have some kind of standard letter people can send to developers containing information and suggestions to prepare their software for becoming portable. Things like explaining what PortableApps are and suggesting to offer command line switches for settings and load/save data locations.

For example: App.exe -s ..\..\Data\settings\App.ini for the settings file (instead of using the registry) and App.exe -d ..\..\..\Documents\ for the default load/save data folder.