General Discussion

I disagree with the "Keylogger Note" for the On-Screen Keyboard Portable (https://portableapps.com/apps/accessibility/on-screen_keyboard_portable), which says: "While on-screen keyboards offer protection against hardware keyloggers, they do not offer protection against software keyloggers (which are far more common). They are primarily intended as an accessibility tool or for alternate means of text entry (pen-based computing, etc)."

It doesn't even has to be cross-platform, or compatible with anything at all. I just like the layout of Simplenote and Notes. But the web can be slow or not always accessible. I wonder what similar Windows app can you think of, preferably portable.

The one main feature it has to do is auto saving my notes and back up versions of documents, so I don't end up like this ever again: https://portableapps.com/node/53425

According to Polish security researchers at Exatel, Maxthon Cloud currently engages in multiple spyware activities. An English translation of the report can be found here: https://exatel.pl/advisory/maxthonreporten.pdf

User ksdev on Hacker News summarizes it:

TL;DR: It doesn't matter if you agree to join "User Experience Improvement Program" in Maxthon or not - the browser regularly sends this data to Beijing servers:

I just tried to install the current .PAF. file and the install failed :-

"Unable to download file ......./binpack/current.txt (file not found 404)"

Other than this the install appears to work but when I try to run it I get the error :-

CreateProcess failed, exe='F:\PortableApps\OpenPNPortable\App\bin\openvpn.exe' cmdline='openvpn --version' dir='f:\PortableApps\OpenVPNPortable\App\bin'

I assume this is trying to install the 2.3.11 Win7 64 bit version.

This was all under XP. - However, I see the same install problem under Win7 Professional.

hello, i recently moved apps from one jumpdrive to another and i am getting the error "The downloaded copy of Autoruns portable is not valid and can not be installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other network issue. please try running the updater again when complete." now i saw john T haller mention to delete the local machine cache but i have deleting all cache i can think of IE cache, microsoft Edge, Firefox, the internet options for temp downloads. I just do not know what to delete and i am out of things to delete, what am i missing? thank you

I like to convert my books in epub format with Sigil software for ereading in my Samsung Tab S2. That works well with my second tablet iPad, but seem android ereaders (Prestigio and other) dont read .css by Sigil. Any solution? Thank for help. Paolo

alguien me puede orientar para este mensaje que da la carpeta azul de window he buscado por todos lados y dicen que es el mensaje de la muerte, pero sigo creyendo que tiene arreglo ""\\?\GlobalRoot\device\harddiskvolume4\windows\system32\logfiles\srt\Srttrail.txt"" el repair automatic, no responde,con disco de arranque o una USB no funciona,
cuando entra la reparacion automatica ,empieza y dice los drivers estan bloqueados
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Apologies - this question must have been asked often, but I just can't find an answer.

Are there any tools to remove all my personal information from a PortableApps USB key?

I work offshore, in areas of typically very poor internet connection. I'd like to give people a copy of my USB key - several find it very useful. I've experimented, and it appears that if I delete the entire Data subfolder, this seems to delete my personal information and resets each app to a prisitine, newly installed state. I'm not sure if this covers the whole story though...

Many thanks

Hi,
I would like to see seach featrure and implementation into portable apps, which I'm going to installl. Criterias by names and desciption or by app tags or categories.
Thanks, Tuomas
BTW: search is also inside of installed apps, but tha is not what I'm writing here!

I use Google Chrome Portable (51.0.2704.106). I really like that by default, the cache files are saved to a temporary directory windows, because this directory I have moved to a RAM disk for Save SSD drive. But when I create a new virtual desktop in Windows 10 and run it another copy of Google Chrome Portable, I see that the new temporary files are not added to the Temp/GoogleChromePortable/Cache. So where are they added?