General Discussion

I know you can run portable from a flash drive without isntalling anything, but I'm wondering if running a portapp on a computer installs anything into the computer registry or store any settings on a folder on the computer. basically, is there any footprint or anything left behind after the flash drive is removed.

also, do portapps suffer from anything that the full version doesnt? are they slower? or missing features?

Hello,
I think you at PortableApps.com will like this idea. Although you reading this, might not know, many people still use dial-up, and I'm sure your download manager makes life a lot easier. But take a moment to figure how much time would be spent downloading ALL of your apps. Even with a great connection, it would be slow.

Hello,
I'm looking for information on how to lock down and secure both my Flash Drive and Portable Apps within it just in case I do something stupid like leave it somewhere that I shouldn't or lose it.
As you can imagine, someone accessing the contents of my Flash Drive could be devastating.

I'd appreciate any info.
Thanks

Ken

Hello,
First of all, it's amazing to see how far Portable Apps has come in just a few years. I remember John promoting Firefox Portable (or was it Portable Firefox) on the old Spread Firefox site and on his own old site.
Admittedly, I probably didn't make a good impression with John considering how outspoken I was about his efforts to show Firefox users how to make Firefox look just like IE. I just figured that Firefox is Firefox and it should look like anything but IE and people learn new software every day and so they should and would get used to Firefox's interface.

Is there a portable app that can read CHM files? I know there is a plugin for firefox but I am trying to avoid that route since my IT department is on the lookout for anyone using any browser other than IE. Thanks for any info. GD

Hi. I was just wondering whether Audacity is a lossless editor like mp3DirectCut, or does it decompress->edit->recompress?

Also, what are the other pros and cons of both of them?

I installed the portable platform (just the menu and autorundata) I changed the icon to my own icon instead of the site icon and I cant get the menu to automatically open when I insert the drive.

This is what my autorun file looks like:

[quote]
[Autorun]
Open=StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
ICON=memory card 2.ico
[/quote]

Can anyone help me make the portable apps menu automattically open rather than clicking it?

Hi Guys,

After searching the entire day trying to find a post (by MarkoM I think) that specifies how to fix the false positive the Bat_To_Exe_Converter creates and that can be fixed by replacing UPX? with UPC?, I give up and hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

I used Bat_To_Exe Converter to make a ghost exe of a very simple bat file. Avast detects it as a trojan whenever PAM launches.

As I understood the post in question there is a way to edit? the exe to remove the false positive detection.

Thanks in advance for the help.

The .NET framework comes through Windows Update and is classified as "Important". I know because I got it today. Now I don't know how updates work on XP nowadays, but the default in Vista is to download and install all updates as soon as they are found. This means that almost all machines with an internet connection running Vista will have .NET 3.5 now. Of course, this doesn't mean .NET is no longer a dependency to worry about since XP is still what one typically encounters, but those who routinely work with Vista will now likely to be able to use .NET apps without worry.

Hello everyone,

I'm about to buy an USB stick. I've experienced PortebleApps before and i loved it!
But now there is no good way to easely secure your device with an password. At least, not the way like U3 does, mount the device, and first a password, before you can do annything. But the U3 has not the portable apps i want (xammp, Notepad++ and so on).