General Discussion

My home computer doesn't mount removable devices. It loads USB Mass Storage Device drivers, but I have to use Computer Management to mount them, and it mounts them as local disks, and I have to open them via CM because Explorer doesn't acknowledge their existence. It has no problem with my external HD.

Hey everyone,

Just thought that I'd share with the people that didn't already know about a fantastic portable app, StrokeIt Portable. StrokeIt is free for personal use and is a highly customisable mouse gesture program with a very small footprint. One of the forum members 'tpr' has made a nsi launcher to make this excellent program portable and it works flawlessly.

You can customise gestures for individual progams to perform certain functions, have global functions for all programs or both. I've set it up with portable firefox and thunderbird to complete basically all the essential fuctions, and now i feel naked without it. I now use it all the time with Corel and Photoshop and its the most effective program to improve efficeny i've used.

Right now I don`t travel. I just use them on my own computer. What`s the point?

I never knowed the sense of an "installation" for apps like firefox, thunderbird... Is it really necessary? NO!

The adventages of portable software are obvious:
- No registery entrys.
- If I want to travel at some day I can compress and copy my software very fast and do that.
- I have a better overview what the program is doing. All folders have a good overview and it`s not unsorted no files in other dirs. All personal settings and files are stored.
- If I need to format and reinstall my system I can just continue using my apps without any problems. (I have multiple partitions and wihout portable software I had some troube before finding my personal settings folder and so on.)

when trying to run gaim i receive the error mssg. The dynamic link library intl.dll could not be found in the specified path E:\PortableApps\GaimPortable\App\gaim;,;c:\WINNT\system32;C:\\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;;C:\PROGA~1\PROTEC~1.

then another error...

Error loading gtkgaim.dll.
Error (126) The specified module could not be found.
This probably means that the GTK+ can't be found.

Thanks for any tips.

My OS is server 2000

Hello,

I intalled the application on my one gig usb drive. (Currently using windows 2000 advanced server)
I checked Device Manager and I indeed do have enhanced usb 2.0 support. (intel usb2 enhanced host controller)

I click on the StartPortableApps.exe (using usb drive E:) and nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I have a few 2 portable apps that require other exes in order to run. These programs are Portable Cleaner and PowerDefragmenter GUI with Contig. I would like to hide the CCleaner exe and only show the Portable CCleaner exe. I also want to hide the Contig file from showing up on the Portable Apps menu. Is there anyway to fix this? I would also like to know if it is possible to change the name of the app in the menu. This is beause PowerDefragmenter's desription calls it Setup Fatory 6.0 Runtime. I would like to change that to PowerDefragmenter.

It is an extension called Firefly it adds a filemanager to Firefox Portable (much like Konqueror). You can open files with other portable software!!! Like when I tried to open a Presentation with OpenOffice Impress Portable via Firefly it worked, also this works with opening Word Docs and other doc formats with OpenOffice Writer Portable (not sure about AbiWord Portable though).

But here is the link to this wonderful extension! https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3076/

I have just purchased a 2GB U3 drive and wiped it clean. I installed the portable apps program and so far I love it! I'm a bit confused though when it comes to installing programs from EXE files. I installed Keepass and also AdAware, but when I open up my flash drive and go into Portable Apps, I see that there are other types of programs that link to the uninstallers, etc. Is there a way I can remove these from my menu? I'm not sure if I'm installing them properly or not, but any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I am not as technically adept as most of the people posting here. The last time I actually programmed anything was when Z-80s and 6502s were considered state of the art. So, be patient with my questions. When I stick a U3 USB drive into a computer, the U3 Menu automatically loads and is in the bar at the bottom of my screen. When I stick in my USB with PortableApps in my computer, the icon for USB changes, but the menu does not automatically load. Is this due to some setting on my computer for how it processes the autorun.inf file? I thought that the autorun.inf file that is in the PortableApps installation would automatically start the menu.

I don't suppose since we are getting hosted Developer pages, we might get some moderators on the forums *hint hint*
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