General Discussion

Hello...My Portable Apps Platform was working great just before my back up of my data but now it won't launch. The dialog box pops up saying it can't find PortableAppsMenu.exe. I have even attempted to re-install the Platform from new DLs including beta versions but get like the one mentioned above about the PortableAppsMenu.exe. I know where to put it if I had it if some one could help me out that would be great. Everything else installs just fine I just can't run the platform....Peace.....What

Sorry if my topic is a little misleading. I know John makes money off of google adds as well as a google search engine here. Personally I try to use this as much as I can to support the site. However a lot of the time it's just not convienient and I just automatically go up to the little thing in my top right corner as I'm sure many people do. Is it possible to create a button for that search bar? Something simmilar to how we have the search for the forums is it possible to create one for our own google search?

I made the mistake of installing the free version of Mojopac on the flash drive that I use for PA. Didn't like it and removed the Mojopac files, but this didn't get rid of it completely.

I changed the volume label back, but "MojoPac" still shows beside the drive letter at the bottom of the PA launcher, and under MyComputer, but not on the DOS prompt. I reinstalled the PA suite over the old one but that didn't help.

We all know the standard plain pendrives or USB-HDD's. Long time I wasn't aware that there are other useful features are available and I think other people to. This thread is to show and to discuss pendrives and USB-HDD's with advanced "unusually" features.

- hardware based encryption - https://www.ironkey.com/
- U3 - http://www.u3.com/
- CD-ROM partition - http://www.udrw.com/en/tech/index.php
- USB-FDD emulation - http://www.netac.com/products_show/storage_ods.htm
- USB-ZIP emulation - http://www.netac.com/products_show/storage_u320.htm

I have checked to see if there is anything on this topic and if I missed it mea culpa
Having bought an Asus eeepc 701 I lamented he loss of my Portable Apps, however I have found that if 'Wine' is installed on the host Linux then P.A. will launch via 'Wine' and appear in the bottom right of screen as normal.
As this is already running under 'Wine' programs on the P.A.menu will launch in the same way as they do on Windows although with a little bit of screen flashing and chundering.

Just wanted to let you know I'm back after being offline for a few days. I've been under the weather pretty bad. I'm not at 100% yet but I'm good enough to get some things done. Releases continue this afternoon.

The Tor Project has released two portable software bundles. The Tor Browser Bundle contains Tor, Vidalia, Polipo, Firefox, and Torbutton. The Tor Browser IM Bundle contains Tor, Vidalia, Polipo, Firefox, Torbutton, Pidgin and OTR.

Tor Browser Bundle (binaries in several languages and install instructions here)
https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/

I've seen flash drive speed discussed in terms of read/write data transfer rates, which I can understand if I'm transferring large files. But how does it relate to launching and running programs, which is what I really care about?

What's important to me (and I would spend $$ to speed up) is the time needed to launch and start using an app.

When an app is launched, is it read into RAM and executed there? If so, I can see that transfer rate is important. Or, does it run on the drive? In that case does advertised "speed" relate to program execution?

First time poster but long time user of PA. Thanks to everyone here who has worked hard to make PA what it is.

Is there a program that will encrypt the entire flash drive for on-the-fly encryption? I saw a thread here about TrueCrypt that sounded good, but it wasn't clear that this is available yet.