General Discussion

A week or so back I was having trouble getting LibreOffice to start. When I would try to start it, it would reply that another instance was already running and refuse to start. Solution finally turned out to be to delete an ini file with an astoundingly long name from the Data folder. Today I was trying to start up Irfanview portable and encountered the same problem with the same solution. I've used portable apps for years and never encountered this before. Has some general change occurred which causes this? Do we need a cleanup app? Or have I just been unlucky?

You currently have the forum heading reading as:

Quick Status Update (July 10 & 17th) - Content delivery network online (June 2nd) - Full Status Update Expected

If you were to rearrange them as:

Content delivery network online (June 2nd) - Quick Status Update (July 10 & 17th) - Full Status Update Expected

They would be in chronological order and the two Update links would be together and thus harder for readers to miss the link to the Quick one.

I scan file with ClamWin 0.97.1, updated 23:06 14 Jul 2011

Notepad2Portable_4.2.25_English.paf.exe: BC.Heuristic.Trojan.SusPacked.BF-6.B FOUND
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 996859
Engine version: 0.97.1
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 1

Data scanned: 1.64 MB
Data read: 0.89 MB (ratio 1.84:1)
Time: 5.172 sec (0 m 5 s)

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Completed
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Someone on The Admin Zone Forums at the thread http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87188 mentioned a WAMP server could be acquired here. IS that true>

I have a client who would like to demo a classic asp / ms sql website right from a thumb drive. No development needed on the drive, just run the site from it for demo purposes. I'm thinking it would need something like apache server, and for the ms sql maybe we'd need to convert it to MySql. Anybody done anything like that? Any ideas? Anything out there that would accomplish this out of the box?

I am setting up a collection of Portable Apps on a USB thumb drive and I want to use something like Rocketdock to launch them. However, when I set up the program path in Rocketdock it requires the drive to be included. (ex. P:\PortableApps\7Zip\7Zip.exe). When using the USB drive on various computers, it is likely that the USB drive will be assigned a drive letter other than P:. Yes, I know how to manually assign a drive letter to the USB, but I don't want to have to do this on every computer I may plug the thumb drive into.

Well, sometimes I'm in work and want to download and install some PortableApps to my pendrive. But because local user rights, I cannot install them.

It there an way to get "extractable packages" of existing PortableApps apps, or to extract files from them instead of running the app?

I have seen on another site where the users have a "like" or "Track my Favorite App"
to where you can be notified of updates by logging in. I think this would aid in updating apps above and beyond using the program updates that I really like a lot in v2. And or in this also list new apps released on the applications list.

Hi all,

Is it possible/safe to move/transfer all portable apps between drives?

For example between two different USB memory sticks or from a USB portable hard disk drive to a USB memory stick?

Does it matter that the drives have different drive letters?

Many thanks.

Hello there,

Not sure if it is just my sage++ issue or a general one (I tested the ffx built-in rss reader too and it's the same case) but isn't the all idea of RSS newsfeed to get the news when it's updated and not so late afterwards? (last rss update was on June 10th.)

Is it a platform issue or just the lack of time for the website admin(s)?

I apologize if this was already answered.

Cheers and keep up the good work.