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Distribution as part of a course

Submitted by KD7CAO on May 24, 2020 - 6:00pm

I am currently assembling a course for professionals in Emergency Management to show them the beauty of having Portable Apps as a part of their tool kit. Before I go into actually teaching them how to use different functions, would it be possible for me to provide the attendees a flash drive already pre-loaded with several Portable Apps that I find useful in my job?

What would you recommend as the best way to build out 200-500 USB drives pre-loaded with Portable Apps and a few basic useful apps?

Portable Apps on Windows PE 10 WADK

Submitted by twgonder on May 24, 2020 - 12:53pm

Hello,

I am creating emergency boot USB devices, with memory and HD.
Those devices have an emergency boot created by Macrium Reflect backup software.
Reflect uses the Windows PE 10 WADK to create the emergency boot, and it boots fine.

I have downloaded the portable apps platform into my Windows 10 Pro laptop and then copied all the associated files to the memories.
On the USB memory stick I have two partitions, and all the portable applications are there.

How to group PortableApps Prgm and underlying Prgm Icon together in TaskBar?

Submitted by pstein on May 19, 2020 - 10:29am

Assume an users pins a shortcut to e.g. Firefox Portable to (Win7) TaskBar.
After clicking on it FirefoxPortable.exe setup environment and starts in turn the underlying core Firefox.exe

Since PortableFirefox.exe and Firefox.exe are strictly speaking two different programs another icon thunbnail appear in Taskbar.
So one PortableApp launch causes a second, different entry in TaskBar altough both belong somehow together.

Is there a way to group these two icons/thumbnails together just as if I would have started 2 instances of Firefox.exe?

Inkscape 1.0 on PortableApps : Is it 64bit or 32 Bit

Submitted by saikat on May 17, 2020 - 6:59am

Inkscape recently got updated to 1.0 and the PortableApp Inkscape also got updated to the same version.
But I am not able to find out if the PortableApps Inksape version is 64bit or 32bit - it doesn't show up when I open Help>About Inkscape.
So, could anyone from PortableApps please tell?

Chrome portable will not remember passwords.

Submitted by nocternalvibe on May 8, 2020 - 2:39am

I am trying to setup Chrome on a thumb drive with multiple profiles and I would like to save the UN/Password within Chrome not on the computer. I did follow the instructions on how to change the ini file to save passwords in Chrome but it does not work.
Does anyone have ideas or a better solution? Thank you.

CCleaner

Submitted by Leighton.Cyr on May 4, 2020 - 2:55pm

I can't get the latest version of CCleaner to download/update. It gives an error message. It says download is incomplete or corrupt... Any idea what's wrong?

Minor annoyance: Updating apps when there isn't enough space on the disk screws up the previous version/existing install, too

Submitted by trust on May 2, 2020 - 11:16am

You've probably heard about these low end Windows laptops that previously came with as low as 32GB flash storage and nowadays 64GB flash storage. Obviously space is an issue (and the old adage, that there isn't a big enough drive that you cannot fill up with crap still applies), but if Windows doesn't find enough space to update itself, it simply doesn't update itself and the existing install still works. PortableApps.com apps don't. Is it a bug or a feature?

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