General Discussion

I am just back from a cyber cafe where I used a usb 1gig flash memory I just installed from portableapps thunderbird, my email program and a note pad to test for a trip I am taking. I went to three cyber cafes. At the second a trojan horse had been installed on my usb.

PSW.generic 5.yia

and doWTP_RESTORE_0.exe

Thus when I went to the third cyber cafe an anti-virus software caught the Trojan. I came home where my anti-virus also caught the Trojan.

EVEN WORSE the USB was not recognized by windows. NADA.. I had to do a format of the USB. It now can once again be written to.

Hey there,
I hear UPX is a useful tool. I have various EXEs on my usb drive, and i was wondering what can be UPXed.
Will doing this an installer file make much difference? It does DLL's too?
What are the best switches to use? (--best?)

I have wanted for some time to be able to start portableapps automaticaly upon the insertion of my flash drive like U3 does.
So I did a search, and this is what I came up with.(http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/research/hackingU3/)

I'm not into hacking but it did work for me.
I can autorun .exe files in the iso partition just fine, but I'm wondering how to autorun PortableApps (which is installed in the main partition)from the iso partition.
can anyone help me?

Hi,everyone,it's the first time I use StartPortableApps,and I install it successfully,now i want to uninstall it ,I try to delete all the file and then format the flash disk directly ,but window xp tell me he can't finish it ,how i can format it? thx

I don't want to use "PortableApps" folder for my applications. I want PortableAppsMenu to use custom path for each application. Is it possible now, or this function supposed to be added later?

It's very important issue for me, and that's why I can't use PortableAppsMenu now.

I just noticed that the button has been added to the Tracker page. Not sure how long it's been there but it's much appreciated.

I have a computer that I would like to use this on but the resolution on it is 800x480 and the application list expands off the top of the display. Is there a way to set the height of the application list so I can see it all?

Hi, I got portable apps today and I like it a lot.
I got the main file from the website, the 86meg one, and it installed a couple of things in my USB, then I installed more "manually".

I noticed that it changed my USB's name to "PortableApps" and the icon to the PortableApps' icon.

I tried renaming it, I even used the U3 software to rename it, and it went back to PortableApps

I decided to move the files from the Root to a Programs folder I had, but the name and Icon still there.

Can someone tell me how to fix that? I don't like having it that way...

I know that open source requires to have the source available, but many people (like me), just don't use or don't know how to use the source... here at PApps.com the source is included in the folder "other" when a PApp is installed in our PDrives... but that increases the size of the installers/downloads...

My question is, is it possible to make the installers without the sources, and keep the sources in a separated download in the same PApp page? that way Apps like Portable OpenOffice will be smaller downloads/installers and faster install process.

...Just a suggestion.

I didn't know exactly where to put this, because it relates to all apps, but here goes. I have a USB flash drive with almost all of the currently available PortableApps on it, as well as a few other apps i have added, such as uTorrent, foobar2000, and CamStudio. However, I don't like the splash screens that are displayed by the PortableApps launchers. Of course, the easy fix for this is to use the INIs provided in the Other\*PortableSource folders, but I deleted all of the Other folders.