General Discussion

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

Excuse my ignorance but can MAC open source projects be re-jigged for Windows?

I like the look of Pixen 3

http://opensword.org/pixen/

It is Open Source

for some reason when i plug in my drive to my comp, all of the buttons are at the top and then ther is a big black part where the rest of the menu is supposed to be. another wierd thing is that the buttons that should be at the base of the menu show up at the top with the rest of the menu but the bottom buttons work on the bottom of the screen. this also dosent happen on other comps. anyone know whazup??

Ok, here are my thoughts.

Thoughts back would be even better

1. You lose your USB Device.
2. You have help!*1 on the device.
3. You never get a phone call.

So you have to go and get a new pen.
How do we make this totaly/only your device.

Here is how I think (If I could do it all!) my USB pen would run.

1. autorun.inf loads check_if_i_am_me.xxx
2. check_if_i_am_me.XXX checkes your system for username / system name
if system name / username is correct from within program then continue to load portableapps.xxx

Here are a few helpful hints when creating/using portable apps.

Hello everybody,

I would like to recommend Qsel as a launcher for portable programs on your USB-devices. It is of amazingly small size (download is only 63 kb), yet very powerful.

Personally, what convinced me to use it instead of Pstart are the category pages, of which the user can create an unlimited number - allowing for an easier and clearer accommodation of a large number of portable programs than Pstart, despite the latter's group feature. Now my programs are really grouped the way I want, easy to find and and with a good overview.

Hallo,

couldn't you integrate more settings like "disconnect USB Drive by close of Portableapps", "don't hide on startup" or a portable encryption.

Yours sincerely anno

Hello all.
I am using most of the "PortableApps" available here, on my USB - non U3 stick.
I am currently waiting for a U3 stick to arrive and i would sure like to use it as such (..that is, a U3 stick), yet i fail to understand how one can have these "PortableApps" to appear as selectable apps in the U3 menu.

I've seen that there are indeed U3 version of some of the apps, but i wouldn't want to use older versions of the apps just for U3-compatibility's sake.

What would you suggest? Is it possible to use a U3 stick effectively without using "U3 apps", but normal "Portable Apps"?