General Discussion

There are many references in the forums to the context in which PortableApps (or just portable apps) on a portable drive might be used on host machines, the most usual being machines at work/home and those belonging to colleagues, friends (holidays?) and internet cafes. Is it just me, or do these suggestions reflect a world quite different from the one I inhabit? I don't work in a particularly secure or as far as I know a very paranoid environment, but I can't think of many "colleagues" who would welcome me into their space brandishing a USB stick ... that's easily short-circuited, but where I find real difficulty is on foreign territory: I haven't found an internet cafe with a USB port, or not one that's enabled anyway, and up until reading the posts, had assumed that this is pretty usual.

I am up against a pretty restrictive and eager-to-make-a-point-of IT department who sees everything as black and white only. I believe the solutions here are superb and am pretty excited to have a bit of freedom again, but...

What is left behind as any kind of trace? I realize the MTU and Prefetch areas are populated on the PC...fine...I can delete those off. Anything else that I should be aware of? Even the slightest thing can make a difference...!

TDD.

Can you tell me how to uninstall the Portable Apps icon / name menu on my flash drive? I know I can remove the folders, but the name of the flash drive cannot be changed, and I cannot remove the 'icon' that has been assigned to it.

Thanks.

Some apps I have add application to the end of the name of the app.

Like, "Foobar2000 Application" and "Restoration Application"

Is there a way to change this? It just kinda annoys me.

Hi Everybody, I work in IT support and come across alot of PC's with virus/spyware problems and this would seem to help. My question is if you run portable spyware/virus spps on your usb drive will you be able to mount the clients drive and run scans from your usb drive?? Thanks in advance, Domenic

Hi,

first of all let me congratiolate to the Launch of PortableApps Suite 1.0 - it seems to be a real innovation. Nevertheless there is a strange grafical distraction of the Launcher-Appearance:

Strange Brew

... or is this how the known 120 dpi issue looks like ?

pat

Is this program secure enough to store passwords for bank accounts? Can it be cracked and the details stolen?

Dear members

I have read with interest how some have turned Skype and other applications portable. I'd be grateful if someone could explain why applications were written so that they impacted the registry when as we see with Portable Apps they could have written settings to the directory. It does seem to me that a lot of applications don't need to impact the registry so why were they written like this in the first place.

So what does one need to do to make an application portable or isn't it that easy. I have a copy of eMindMaps which i'd like to make portable. Later programs like Freemind, ThinkGraph are not as good, and the later MindManager far too complicated and less intuitive than eMindMaps.

I have a USB drive with U3 on it and the U3 software has a function to protect the drive with a password however on some computers (running WinXP or Win2000)usually the ones connected to a network the drive does not work as the window asking for the password does not show up. Is there a different program that can be used to protect the whole USB drive and works without a hitch?

I currently visit my local library on a fairly regular basis and was curious what software you would recommend? Im going to use Portable Firefox, but thats about the extent of my knowledge. Im thinking I might need a proxy as fantasy sports sites seemed to be blocked. Do I need some sort of spyware/antivirus? Any software that may remove any cookies/temp files? All help is greatly appreciated.