General Discussion

Would anyone be able to tell me why I might want to use AbiWord in place of Open Office Writer? I already have open office installed on my thunbdrive and do not have any storage space issues.

Hi, I'm getting my first USB drive and will be running firefox and thunderbird from it while traveling this summer. I am still trying to get my head around using apps from a USB drive though. Is it possible to run any program from a jump drive? Or only apps that are specially programmed? In any case, is there a good FAQ anywhere that I might have missed?

What I am really curious about is a program I use called Wikipad. I know there are wikis like tiddlywiki I could use instead that would probably work on the portable firefox app. Is there a reason I couldn't use this Wikipad program off of a USB drive? Thanks, just a little confused.

Is it possible to make one of the desktop searches such as Google or Yahoo portable?

What would defragmentation do to a portable drive? I want PFF to be faster, but I don't want to risk hurting the USB drive.

Check this portable file manager out. I haven't tried yet. Just let you know.
http://www.xyplorer.com/

Below is what posted on the download page.

The installation of XYplorer totals to about 1.7 MB. No further files are added anywhere to your system, and nothing will be put into the registry but uninstall information. Also, running the program does not change your system or registry. XYplorer can be completely removed by running the included uninstaller, or by simply deleting the install directory.

On the latest GeekBrief TV episode (#27), PortableApps is quickly mentioned. They talk about an external harddrive and "heading over to PortableApps" and putting Thunderbird and Firefox on it. They bring it up about three quarters of the way through.

I thought it was pretty interesting. You can download the episode here.

hi all im new to the group
i love portableapps i using windows xp sp2
i have one question I after you use the winds thing to stop the dirve
is there a command you can use so windows rscan an picks up the dive so you dont have to pulll it in an outpto get it picked up again thanks beau

Just released Mars Notebook 1.3 - very useful tree-styled notebook.
Full featured text editor with tables, formatting, hyperlinks, pictures... Any amount of sections can be created at any tree level, supports data encryption. Import/export from/to MS Word, HTML and a lot of more features...
More info on

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It's not free but uses registration file which must be placed with the same folder with the program.
Without registration it works fine too (but with some function limits)

To make it work portable just select "Save options to file" in program preferences and that's all.

1. AveDesk. I guess this one is not.
2. Rainmeter, Rainlendar.
3. Does desktopx gadget write entry? I just know it'll store some files in folder Application Data.
4. filzip. I changed the setting into the ini file and deleted the entry under current user. However, when I run it from my flash drive, it writes entry again.
5. xmplay and foxit need no installation, but do write entries, right?
6. Are things in portablefreeware.com really all portable?
7. everest home edition portable? What's the last version of home edition without installion? I downloaded ver2.20.405, but it needs to be in

Hi All,

I've found that whenever XP is restored from hibernation it does not reload my USD HDD... I can't remember if this is the case for flash drives, but USB HDD's does not get assigned a drive letter after restoring from hibernation.

Before I started using portable apps this was not a problem as I could merely eject the HDD and plug it in again to restor "My Documents" which is mapped to my USB HDD.

The problem with running portable apps from the same drive is that any open applications simply gets "killed" as they no longer exist according to XP.

Any thoughts on how to get around this problem?