General Discussion

The latest status release is now on John T. Haller's blog here: https://portableapps.com/blogs/johnhaller/2011-02-01_status_update

Greetings all and welcome to a long-overdue PortableApps.com Status Update. It's been way too long since we've sat around and discussed the state of things, so, with some prodding from a couple devs, I thought I'd go over where things are.

New App Releases

As posted in the new PortableApps.com Status Update: "I'd like to finalize a new release team and get working on a way to collaborate and get things moving. The goal will be to have a set group of people who can 'sign off' on apps going from dev test to pre-release to final moving forward. Tools-wise, we can do a custom forum, email list, wiki page, IRC and/or Drupal's issue tracker to ensure that things move forward and don't get left behind."

I had installed acronis (to backup a virtual machine) and monitored it with Regshot.
There is a problem:

The installation created an entry in:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\{C539A15A-3AF9-4c92-B771-50CB78F5C751}]

Name: (Deafult)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: empty
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this entry adds "Include in Nonstop Backup" to the context menu of \*\ (all files)

Hi All,
Is there a way to track when new applications are added to portableapps.com? I just would like to see the progress of new apps versus an upgrade to an existing one and even the removal of unsupported ones. Don't ask me why... it's just my OCD expressing itself again

Thanks, and as always Good work to John & Team!!!

I'm working on a college course for the Spring Session.

About 150 Students have pre-enrolled. Course tools need to be PA's on a Thumb Drive (Maybe?)...

I want to put the course text as a PDF and all necessary software needed in the course assignments (PA has everything needed) pre-loaded on thumb drives.

If i have two computers and I install the same program on both of them, will the four snapshots be similar (same entries)?
even if there are different OS?

I have the log now I need a program that will delete registry and files changes...
UNDOreg doenst work with it...

Couldn't really find anywhere else for this, so put it up as a General Discussion.

To use OpenOffice Base OOo needs access to a java runtime.

The PA "Java Runtime" app takes care of downloading the necessary JREs. So long as the right default install folders are maintained, OpenOffice portable cleverly finds the necessary JREs. You just then need to confirm and away you go.

So, my question is simply, "what's the purpose of the Java Portable Launcher?"

I'm having trouble finding a portable file manager/browser that allows me to access Windows shares via SMB but doesn't use the built-in Windows network neighborhood/drive mapping API's.

Both FreeCommander and CubicExplorer call the native Windows API's, which means any drive I map in them stays mapped on the machine after I close the app and/or shutdown PAM.

I've used muCommander and it works fine using SMB:// syntax but it requires Java to run and can be flaky.

Does anybody out there have any suggestions?

Hi can anyone point me towards any FAQ or guidance on creating a custom version of portable apps/Portable apps suite. I would like to create a version for teachers and students that could possibly be branded to reflect http://opensourceschools.org.uk

The only related thread I have found so far is https://portableapps.com/node/14604 which talks about mozilla redistribution rights.

Any advice/guidance gratefully received.

Tim