General Discussion

I've heard of another IM. It's called Pidgin, and I was wondering how to make that portable, along with a number of other applications. I'll tell people of the others if they're wondering.

I have downloaded Portableapps Suite and tried to install it to my thumbdrive (ScanDisk mini Cruzer 4g) twice with no luck and now neither of my computers will recognize the thumb drive. It does start to recognize it and then says it may not work properly. I am running Windows XPs2 on my PC and Windows XPs2/Ubuntu dual boot on the laptop. I get the same on both. In device manager I get the yellow question mark. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. Can someone help me access my thumb drive? It is brand new. I even removed U3 to install portable apps.

Thanks

Hi. Im trying to make my own portable apps for some days but no sucess yet! I know it is not an easy process but i'll not quit trying!

I installed Total Uninstall, NSIS with the 4 plug-in needed to compile the Portable Application Template 2.0 and as far i see it is a very straigh forward template. But the problem for me is... the log that i get from total uninstall is a big mess and i can't understand what it's junk and what it's not and how use it on the template.
If someone haves a total uninstall log with registry, and a ready to compile template, please send me: sketansy@hotmail.com

Is there any legal issue or other concern to post in this forum a link to a freeware portable app (non GPL) developped elsewhere? And if no, which is the recommended forum to do it? "Other apps support"?

I think, this app is really valuable for many portable app users: it's a freeware dual-pane Windows file manager!

Franz

Dear sir,
How is the license to sell usb drive with portable apps.com ? we would like to change the " portableapps.com "header on the menu .

Thx
Tommy

does windows eject all media like flash drives on logff?

When I "upgraded" to Vista on my laptop this precipitated a lot of "Firefox has stopped working" and "Thunderbird has stopped working when I used these portable applications. Since I am heavily invested in portable apps, this was a BIG problem. I use an SD card on my laptop for the portable applications. After a lot of experimentation, I found that if I changed the drive option from "Quick removal" to "performance", the problem went away. I think the delay associated with writing the buffers for quick removal made Vista think the application had stopped.

I've noticed that when using some applications like Miranda, my application window will pause as the system pages the HD on my mp3 player.

Are there any utilities or programs that disable HD's from sleeping?

I'm sure I won't have this problem with a solid-state solution, but what are my options as an HD user? I've read about Ram Disks, but how does that work?

Thanks in advance

Suggested Updates to sections of this site
1. add a link to your sourceforge site
2.a new section of this forum entitled "completed ready for release PortableApps" for when a file is ready but not included in the suite or added as an "official" supported app these files are past beta test and are ready for release.

Anybody else is welcome to add to this list.

Hey all,

Great apps! This is my first post so please be nice

I've just downloaded many of the apps which will be useful for me.
My question is if I use this on the machines at work will the apps leave any registry info etc behind, anything that will tell them what I've been doing?
Also if I use the Messengers will the people that monitor the internet usage know that I've been using it?

Thanks
Scott..