General Discussion

It is called Floppy Office, Floppy Office is a tiny suite filled with tiny, but usefull apps, they appear truly portable since I saw them writing their settings in .ini files rather than the registry, probably cause the app are from the days of Windows 98, but they will work on XP, not sure about Vista, since I never used Vista.

But here is the link: http://www.xtort.net/office-and-productivity/floppy-office/

I couldn't find a topic to express how glad I am that this project exists, so I am simply putting it here.

I have been searching for stuff like that for months, even years, to make a fresh install of a machine easier and less time consuming. You need one hour for Windows and another three hours for the applications to install. If you packaged Windows and applications in a slipstreamed version or an unattended installation, the minute you have finished packaging, the applications are outdated and new ones would come out. Only because of Microsoft sticking to the registry philosophy.

Not sure if any knows about or caught this, but it's pretty cool

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64554/description.html

Is there any way (under 20 steps and using 3rd party software) to rename the menu listings? i.e. Turning "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition" into "Firefox"?

Also, I'm having trouble getting the autorun.ini to.... well...... auto run...
It's installed on the root of the drive and looks like it has the correct syntax.. but I'm not positive...

I recall seeing a post once that a member was longing for a fax viewer. A lot of image viewers will read a front page but not multiple pages. I used eFAX for a while and then a UK based service. XP i'm told does cope with multiple pages but how well.

I discovered a 3rd party addon called AlternaTIFF which is available for FREE not listed in Mozilla addons (last update Nov 2006) - versions for IE, Netscape and other browsers. Also a free basic (lightweight) portable one called Tiff Viewer by www.compact.uk.com.

I'm starting a new project: Portable Apps for Linux!!

I'll be having more details coming soon, including website, and other infromation.

Who's up for me?

I'm finally on holidays! Thank John for that.

Anyway, I'd like to know, what apps would you like to see the most? (i.e. more games, more office tools, etc. No specific apps please)
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Will PortableApps every be Ceedo - 30 Day Trial + Working Firefox and other apps + Compatibility with other OSes? And even better?

P.S. I really love PortableApps and am waiting for something else in the Games column...

I have read this thread several times and have enjoyed reading all the apps people have on USB. But it has now got so long - isn't it time for that thread to be closed and another "What's on your portable#2? started

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Hi - I don't know if anyone can help, but I have just installed XAMPP using portableapps. I installed manually as suggested, and while apachge and php work fine, when I click "Xampp start" I get a DOS box containing the message:

Please wait [Bitte warten] Could not open required defaults file: mysql\bin\my.cnf
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted

The my.cnf is there... any ideas?

Cheers