General Discussion

Is there a difference in speed between the portableapp and the .exe file that you install in your computer? And is it smaller in size compared to the .exe file? Do you remove or sacrifice function?

Advantages of having the PortableApps aplication installed?

Just curious. If there is no real advantage then I will remove it for the sake of space(even if it is small)

Hi everybody. I just wanted to let everyone here know about the Antonio Pizzigati Prize. Does anybody here know who we can nominate? I know PortableApps.com did not do so well in the "Sourceforge Games", but who knows, maybe this time things will change. So, how about it guys, shall we?

Just a comment (no guest book?) to say Portable Apps is absolutely amazing. I'm a software engineer and Teaching Assistant at University of Ottawa.
I not only move between computers but also between operating systems between them. PortableApps and much of its contained software (didn't test everything) works beautifully with Wine in Ubuntu 8.4.
This really makes my life easier for e-mail, bookmarks and a plethora of application configurations. Toucan is the greates synchronizer I've seen yet (tried a dozen).
Keep up the amazing work!

Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out what is the best Synchronization program, not only to my standards but also by your opinion.

These are the ones i have, so far, tested (5819 files / +-352MB):

DSynchronize 2.30.1 (portable)
Sync 1st Time 177sec (02m 57s)
Sync 2nd Time 3sec (03m 03s)

Pros: ?
Cons: ?

ozSync 2.4.1.0 (portable)
Sync 1st Time 291sec (04m 51s)
Sync 2nd Time 71sec (01m 11s)

Pros: ?
Cons: ?

SyncExp (portable)

Hello all
I am wondering How to make portables with this way :
the portable program contains :
1- the lancher .
2- Folder it is name : App
this folder may be only contains the original program files and may be contains besides tow folders it is name : Data , Default

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Sorry For My Bad English .

This site http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en, is illegal distributing a version of our Portable Firefox, with it's Package found here http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/index.html.en

Because of the Mozilla copyright and the copyrights of portableapps.com They should not be allowed to Distribute Portable Firefox without the specific permission from Mozilla, which I doubt they have, should They have I, my mistake.

It has our complete portable Firefox, launcher, Help files and source, which even includes Firefox's license.

Is there another way other than using wine to run my portable apps in linux?

I am a student and the computer labs here run windows xp and I run linux at home (dual boot. Possibly install linux soon).

What I am looking for is a possible portable emulator that runs window base portable apps on linux computers! I hope I make sense!

Does anyone know of a portable app that can discover what links on a web page contain download mirrors and test the speed of each?

I often downland huge DVD ISO's of Open Source projects.

For example I am currently downloading Knoppix DVD v5.3.1 and it is about 4241 MB.
I'm downloading it via FDM Portable v2.6 BETA Build 792. At 12 sections at 173 KB/s

I recently downloaded PortableApps, and noticed that my drive was renamed PortableApps.com . I want it to be called USBDRIVE. I changed the label in the autorun file. The file now reads:

[Autorun]
Open=StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
Icon=StartPortableApps.exe
Label=USBDRIVE

The drive is still called PortableApps.com. I tried renaming the drive in the application (lower left corner) but the drive name still remains unchanged. What am I doing wrong? I appreciate any help.