General Discussion

while scanning https://portableapps.com/apps by eye i did a double take as the icon for Security looks just like a watering can at first glance ... to me anyway. i do know it is a lock and a torch (or at least that is what i think it is). anyway, it made me smile.

have a nice day, all

Things although better since automatic update from the menu are now very poor in my view usability wise and are prompting me to find alternatives, e.g. non-portable.

Surely these apps know when Windows is closing?

I just bought a Seagate Freeagent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive (1TB) and installed Portable Apps Platform along with my favourite Portable Apps. My understanding is you cant eject this Portable hard drive at all? even from the portable apps platform?

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Let's say that a person (We'll call him Bob), made a portable app (let's say app XYZ)a while back. The app XYZ has been updated several times, but the portable app appears to have been abandoned. If after posting a comment on the portale apps page, you still don't get a reply from the author, my question is this. How long should a person wait, before they assume it is abandoned? I've had several apps I've considered updating, but don't want to be considered rude, or step on anyone's toes...

Maybe I've missed it on this site, but does anyone know of a personal firewall app that can be run from a USB drive?

It would be useful when using my USB drive on a public computer to prevent other PC's on the network from pinging my PC, and in general, accessing it at all.

Thank you.

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I need to create a script for programs storing things in that folder.
I know the $appdata of course, and after some research it seems i would have to use $localappdata, but it doesn't seem to work here (and notepad++ doesn't see this as a recognized nsis command anyway).

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Hello everyone.

Apologies if this has been answered elsewher - but I've spent a while searching on whatever relevant keywords i can think of - and have drawn a blank.

With the demise of Meebo, I am trying to find a portable IM client that I can use at my workplace.

The problem is, that my work uses an .pac to set the proxy. I can get to and read this file, but I'm unable to determine the settings to use in a proxy config dialog in the IM client.

I've used the portable apps menu for some years, always been a fan of the simplicity and the fact that it does what it says on the tin, as it were. Been using the same version of the platform (menu ?) for some years, as it just works, with no unnecessary bells and whistles. However, got a new flash drive today, so thought I'd download and install the latest one, 10.1.2. Didn't want the music so went for the 'basic' one. Oh dear. What's happened to the simple, uncomplicated menu I knew and loved ? Program firing off unasked, window grabbing the focus offering me stuff.

I have a pc with way less RAM than it should so I'm hoping to help alleviate that problem by switching to a portable version of antivirus so I'm wondering: do portable apps run directly out of the ram of the flash drive or do they still use ABOUT the same amount of the the pc's system ram? (I.e. does using the portable version free up ram or just harddrive space?) Thanks for any help.

Hi,

First, I searched and found nothing.

With the upcoming (and currently testing) windows 8, I have a question... Many of us uses portable apps instead of installed apps in our computers as a way to keep our registries clean, in my case, I also use portables apps to keep it in my D:\ partition instead of using my smaller c:\ one (this is because I have extra partitions for Ubuntu), and that way I can also use portable apps on linux (trough wine) if I need/want to.

I'm testing windows 8, and now I'm trying to figure out a way to do it, and that's why I came here once more to ask...