General Discussion

I got a new Dell laptop (XP SP2) at work. When I plug in my Verbatim USB drive it doesn't mount correctly. It has an "!" in Device Manager and does not show in My Computer. If I disable/enable the drive in Device Manager it properly mounts and gives me the what do want to do popup with PAM as the default choice. Any ideas on what's causing this and how to fix? The drive worked fine in the old PC and works fine on my home PCs.

Portable apps are totally wonderful! The big drawback though, I'm finding, is the need to be very careful to close them all before disconnecting the drive.

Is there any way to have the launcher do this with a single command (since it's already got most of the necessary information)? Or are there already other plans to fix this problem?

If this is something that's already been discussed, maybe someone would be kind enough to let me have the link to it.

Thanks.

I can say that I was amazed when I tried it. I have Windows and Linux on my home computer and use Linux 90% of the time. I use the portable apps all the time at work which is obviously a Windows machine and when I come home I figured I had to use Windows to access it. So this evening I right clicked the Portable apps icon on my flash drive and selected Open with and typed "Wine" and to my surprise up came the Portable apps menu. I could not be more happy this is great that it works from Linux which is the system I prefer. I used mine with PCLinuxOS has anyone else tried this with other versions of Linux?

Can't get suite to work.
Don't know why

I did a search for this topic, but couldn't find what I was looking for. I would like to install the entire Portable Apps suite on a flash drive where I already have Thunderbird, Gaim, and OpenOffice.org. If I install the suite on top of what's already there, will I lose the files that are on my drive, specifically my emails from Thunderbird? I'm going to play around with it, but of course back up my data before I do the install. If worse comes to worse, I can always erase the drive and reload what I already had on there.

Thanks for your attention to this. If this has been posted bef

Found an excellent launcher called 8Start. It's very configurable, and supports categories, custom icons and wallpaper. It doesn't have a backup function like the portableapps launcher, but it can link to any file or folder, and uses either absolute or relative paths.
It takes a lot more configuring - you need to define at least one group and category, and the links have to be added one at a time, but they can be edited and moved around after they are created.
I've left my key apps in the PortableApps Launcher, and also a link to 8Start. I moved all the other apps into a separate folder, and linked them in 8Start.

I just downloaded the Portableapps tool a few days ago and I love it. It's a genius idea and easy to use. I even installed the Google tool bar into my portable Firefox without skipping a beat. It's a great app.

I have a question. Would it be possible to completely lock out the local OS, and force the system to only use the Portable apps? This would be great for security risk users and dangerously dumb users.
Just hand them a flash drive and no matter what computer they plug into they always access the same stuff and can't access anything else.

I'm sure you could do this by booting from the flash drive and using the MAC OS7 you have on the site, but that's a bit to technical and time consuming for the average dumb user.

Does anyone know how to create an ico file but with multiple size icons inside.

I noticed that portableapps comes wiht icons that contain about 5 different sizes in one single icon file.

Ideally instructions that mean i can use 32bit images with transparancy.

I just downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0.0.1 from Mozillas site on a Flash Drive with no problems whatsoever. Now it doesn't hang for long periods while loading like the PortableApps FF 2.0 does.

Under the Hardware Properties Policies of my USB drive should I:

Optimize USB for quick removal

OR

Optimize for performance?

Does it make a difference?

Is this for the device or the PC?