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Open with . . . no longer allows me to choose any of my portable apps

Submitted by Terry McCollough on October 22, 2008 - 4:01pm

I recently have been unable to open documents using the 'open with ...' in the context menu of Windows (XP) and searching to my portable apps (eg pdf with Sumatra). I have not done anything different. This behavior occurs on both my work machine and my home one (where I have administrator rights). It seems to have coincided with the recent windows patches from Microsoft, but I do not know if there is a connection.

Which download manager is better?

Submitted by ASJ on October 21, 2008 - 6:24pm

Hello all,

First time poster and PortableApps rocks!!!

I noticed that a new portable app was made available today called WinWGet. I have never seen or heard of this program before. I understand that this program is a download manager. Currently I use the Firefox extension called DownThemAll. My question is, which download manager is better? Would WinWGet be worth making the switch to or am I better off sticking with DownThemAll?

Thanks in advance for your input.

xcerus

Submitted by xcerus on October 21, 2008 - 3:49pm

Hello to all. I do not know if ago well when placing the message here, I hope that they know to excuse if and committed an error. What I wanted to raise is an application that serves to synchronize the data with respect to the PC, so that?

Application for Syncing files

Submitted by frschof on October 21, 2008 - 9:57am

Look for an application that will automatically sync up a desinated folder on a pc and download these files to a folder within the thumbdrive running portable apps.

What I like is to have a user plug in thumb drive run this program that will go out a predetermined drive on desktop and download most current files to the thumbdrive automatically.

Any help be great.

Application Categories

Submitted by crux on October 20, 2008 - 6:23pm

I think the category list should be updated and a few apps shuffled.

SpeedCrunch seems more Education- than Office-related.

The Internet category is a bit catch-all. I don't think Nvu/KompoZer need to be in the Internet category (development is just fine). Thunderbird doesn't need to be there either. It can stay in the office category or perhaps be grouped with Pidgin and Miranda into a new Messaging category (along with the Lightning Thunderbird extension).

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