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What`s wrong with pidgin and portableapps.com?

Submitted by jps on July 9, 2007 - 8:50am

Pidgin is a cross platform messenger, originally from the linux/gtk world. So it doesn`t use windows system features like registry. It`s very similar to Gaim. Also it`s very easy to be made portable, there are instructions on the pidgin website.

But it`s still not hosted on portableapps.com, less important things got added before.

So what`s wrong with pidgin?

is it possible to run any of these apps without running an exe

Submitted by mczack26 on July 8, 2007 - 2:51pm

You see i have to work with a dead rubbish version of IE6n Which is slower than hell. Now i wouldnt mind if someone could tell me or post how to run any of these in an exe banned enviroment. I've actually taled to the tech guys at my school but they screamed at me not to look at there moniters when i was looking at the flashylight server box behind them and told me no chance.

Best way to restore data?

Submitted by Tweedboy6L6 on July 5, 2007 - 10:17pm

Just before my 3 month old PQI flash drive died, I did a full backup using the Portable Apps main menu backup utility.

When I get my replacement flash drive, do I install Portable Apps then go to the backup menu and restore, or do I unzip my backup file and simply copy it to the new flash drive?

Thank you.

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