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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Why is the portable apps menu less portable than explorer?

Submitted by asimp on May 13, 2007 - 11:04pm

I'm trying to create a portable web server by using a compiled autoit script, but I have to use absolute paths to get the thing to run properly from the portable apps menu. It worked fine when I ran it in explorer from inside the drive without absolute paths or drive letter, but not in portable apps. What's the deal?

MSI portability

Submitted by hobyrne on May 12, 2007 - 10:49pm

Hi all,

The MSI file format has the advantage of being a standardized format for containing all the information associated with installing applications.

If an MSI file only contains instructions to copy files to an install directory, it is portable. If it contains instructions to e.g. change the registry, it's not. Other rules apply too, of course.

Integrated PortableApps Menu

Submitted by Dolphin Dancer on May 12, 2007 - 9:38pm

Hi everyone

I am having trouble with the IPAM - it will not open and I get an error message when I click on it. The individual programs work well (I am happy with what I have seen so far) when I open them from their individual icons in the various folders but I would like to use the main menu.

Can anyone help?

Regards
Dolphin Dancer

Yahoo Calendar

Submitted by fot on May 12, 2007 - 7:45am

Has anyone found a PIM that will sync with Yahoo. I have been using essential PIM currently, tried sunfire and thunderbird. But what I am looking for is a PIM (cal, address, todo) that will keep my yahoo up-to-date. there are several computers that I use and add appointments etc that has no internet connection. I would like to view and make appointments then return to computer with internet and sync to yahoo. Any suggestions

Graphics error in the launch menu?

Submitted by jonsolberg on May 12, 2007 - 4:00am

I recently installed the portableapps suite and a few extra applications on my 1 Gb Sandisk USB drive. Works like a charm. However, the menu suffers from graphical glitches on my install, shown in the link below:

http://www.jonsolberg.se/repository/Misc/corruptedmenu.png

Main problems are the black areas and the fact that the "close" button is not where it's supposed to be (the Documents/Music/Movie/... menu also suffer from glitches: the "currently marked" is far to large).

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