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New PortApps Menu Theme

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Submitted by hozeyzachary on October 5, 2007 - 1:20pm

hey guys,

i've got a new theme that i'd like to share. 2b honest, it's not exactly
a 'new theme' but i've changed the looks of the menu Smile i kinda skin it. hehe.

It is based on Royal Noir Theme by PAM Themes (http://blog.kain-planet.de/?cat=6)
And i call it, Port.Warez (portable softwares). It's nothing special but just thought
that i want to share it with my PortableAppers.

Just click on the link below and unzip it using winrar to your favourite thumbdrive or any portable devices.
But please dont keep it in a file cause i've included the autorun script(by Xrx)

Anyone experience with portaleapps, encryption and network devices?

Submitted by jps on October 4, 2007 - 12:59pm

I and a friend (and maybe later a group of people) plan to use network device. Some online storage such as (s)ftp or ssh. This ftp drive will be mounted into windows explorer (with ftpdrive, sftpdrive or netdrive or just with the windows explorer build in function).

Purpose? We want to share a calendar (either the hole Sunbird on that device or just the profile folder), some source code files, documents and stuff like that.

Envoking from file or explore mode?

Submitted by lowland on October 4, 2007 - 5:24am

Any suggestions for a work around for recognizing and evoking the portable app from the file or explore mode.

An example would be when the user, (in the file folder or explorer mode) double clicks on a open office file it will not start the open office application from the portable app, when the open office software is not on the operating system which the USB stick is plugged into.

Can't install portabl apps

Submitted by kabo on October 4, 2007 - 2:44am

Hi there,

for some reason I can't install portable apps on my 4gb astone usb stick. It comes up with:

#0 PortablApps_Suite_Standard_1.0.exe is not supported archive.

the error message is from 7-zip

I've tried both the light and the standard version, both won't work. I had tried to put portable apps on a few weeks ago and it worked fine, so don't know what's wrong now.

Any ideas?

Thanks
kabo

Auto-Minimize to Tray

Submitted by ihatemakingscree on October 3, 2007 - 8:08pm

Is there anyway to prevent the Portable Apps Suite from minimizing automatically to the tray after starting a program?

I mostly use the suite at my school computer labs, which are locked with Desktop Authority, which apparently won't give me access to the anything on the task bar, including the system tray icons (I can't even right click!).

Thanks!

Please stop editing old posts

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 3, 2007 - 12:01pm

As the first two pages of the tracker have been fixed,

PLEASE STOP EDITING OLD POSTS TO FIX SIGNATURES.

It forces old topics to appear as new on the main page even though they're quite old. Someone went through and edited posts as old as mid-August, causing the tracker to be filled with old topics.

If older topics are resurrected, mods will edit the posts within them.

Autoplay won't work after reformatting drive to NTFS

Submitted by forgotmyoldname on October 3, 2007 - 9:14am

I formatted my drive to NTFS and now it won't autoplay when I insert it, it just opens up the drive in Explorer. I have to manually autorun it by right-clicking on the drive letter and selecting AutoPlay. Is there any way to change the properties so it autoplays on insertion like it's supposed to?

New personal homepage links, signature display and signature guidelines

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 2, 2007 - 9:44pm

It's been a long time coming, but personal signatures are finally separated from content on the site. Now, when you create a comment, your signature will not appear in the box. It will appear below your comment once posted, though. And, when you update your signature, it will update across all your comments.

The signatures are also displayed in a smaller italicized font to make it more clear that it isn't part of the comment itself, making it easier to follow along a discussion. This also makes any lines of characters people add to signatures to separate them redundant.

Tags?

Submitted by wsm23 on October 2, 2007 - 5:36pm

What about main post tags?

I think that might help with come of the search issues. Many people try to search, but come up empty because they do not know exactly what to search for.

Example: ImgBurner Generic Portable v1.5. Description might say something like this. A portable version of ImgBurner Generic 1.5. This program can manage your cd or dvd burning tasks.

(Tags): ImgBurner dvd cd burn burner cdwriter dvdwriter dvdrw cdrw cdr dvdr copy clone.

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