General Discussion

hello there,

I'm rolling together my own Portable Apps distro aimed at people interested in Christianity who live in a country where that might be illegal. My product is encrypted, so the purpose of the device is ambiguous without the password.

I discovered running a browser on a USB drive really sucks as the disk performance for shuffling temp file is poor. So I hit on an idea, I managed to make a RAM disk to run a portable version of Chrome on.

When clicking on the menu to run the batch file script, it won't work as it need Administration rights.

The batch file does this:-

Hi all,

Im sure this has been covered but could not find it in the discussions.

I have a new job which I would like to do modications to images such as cropping, etc as part of my sumbission briefs, At home I use Photoshop but they dont have this at work.

I would like to use Freeware Gimp or a portable version of Photoshop which I have, but the problem comes in with the work computer.

As a Domain user I have no rights to write to the registry, and therefore no portable apps I have tried will run on the work PC.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this

I'm running Platform 12.0 Beta 3 on Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

When I use: Help->Check Drive for errors
I see two VSS errors logged:

1) Error 8193
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered

Event Data:
0000 2D 20 43 6F 64 65 3A 20 42 55 45 43 58 4D 4C 43 - Code: BUECXMLC
0010 30 30 30 30 34 33 36 33 2D 20 43 61 6C 6C 3A 20 00004363- Call:
0020 42 55 45 43 58 4D 4C 43 30 30 30 30 34 33 33 32 BUECXMLC00004332
0030 2D 20 50 49 44 3A 20 20 30 30 30 30 36 31 32 30 - PID: 00006120

I have 3 different computers and I have been using Dropbox for years to keep synched all my documents. Lately I have installed my Portable apps inside Dropbox too, so that I do not need an USB drive to have an identical system on all 3 computers.
I would love to use Dropbox portable to mirror this solution even to an USB drive, but there is not an offical Dropbox portable application.
I see there is an unofficial version of it: does anyone recommend it?
I guess Carbide would be the only option to safely carry my Dropbox on usb around?

How can I make an app (one that's installed by a PA.com installer) always start as admin?

Some apps do need it, but don't request admin rights automatically, so they can be used in readonly mode. I want full access, always. Therefore, I'm looking for some sort of "AlwaysAdmin" or "AlwaysElevate" kind of flag, somewhere...

How do to this?

In my search for a proxy that would allow modification of headers, I came across https://portableapps.com/node/777 page. Then, after finding and starting to use proxomitron, I remembered the aforementioned person's issue, and realised that this program also solved his issue (At least I think I understand his issue - http://www.inetprivacy.com/a4proxy/chaining-proxomitron.htm).

Can someone help me to understand how to configure the widget in order to:

- define a private repository
- configure widget to get new app and app update only from the private repository

Thanks in advance.

I have converted one program that requires .net 2.0 in portable format and i am running the program on Windows 7 x32. The program runs fine most of the time but sometimes just stops to work and i have to restart it to make it work again, and i think this is related to the .net framework.

For programs that required .net framework do i have to insert any command in launcher.ini or appinfo.ini to make the program run without problems?

Why in this appinfo.ini example: https://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format#appinfo
it shows that the path to the icon must be like this: ExtractIcon=App\AppName\AppName.exe

But when i try to create the portable launcher it is looking for the icon file in \App\AppInfo\appicon.ico, and if it is not there it gives error and can not create the portable launcher.

Is it possible to comment out lines in launcher.ini as this is done in autohotkey scripts? In AHK script you can comment out line as you put ";" in front of the line. Is it possible something like this to be done with launcher.ini