General Discussion

well, i feel like a nub asking this. but i cant get anything that requires the internet to connect. the programs launch fine, but are unable to connect, firefox, thunderbird, gaim, pidgin, miranda, none of them work. i turned off my firewall but that didnt help. all apps on my hdd work fine. suggestions are much appreciated.

hey all
i have a problem on my with Thunderbird and firefox
when i have the setting set to runlocally=true it does not copy the settings back into my flash drive.
here is exactly what it is for firefox

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=true
AllowMultipleInstances=false
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipChromeFix=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=true

I appreciate all websites who support ssl.

When visiting https://www.portableapps.com/ with firefox there is a warning becuase the certificate is for portableapps.com without www.

Afaik (I may be wrong) the standard way to deal with the certificate is to create it for the www.site.

+ is there still no certificate authority who creates free certificates (and built into browser by standard)?

OK I am having a real problem. I use to use your apps all the time on my work computer. but none of the new apps work. An example would be KeePas, it gives me a pop up saying "An unsupported operation was attempted". Another would be pidgen which returns "error loading pidgin.dll Error: (5) Access is denied" I am running pidgin, the real portable version, fine on my computer but yours does not work. A true portable app should run on all computers and not even try to load dlls.

On the OpenOfficePortable page it says
File size: 77.4MB (download), ~219MB (installed)

I was looking at my flash drive and for the properties of my OOP install I see
Size: 229 MB (240,621,056 bytes)
Size on Disk: 325 MB (341,639,168 bytes)

I do have a few extra templates and addons installed into my OOP so that changes my file size some. My question is what is causing the disparity with the size and the size on disk? Is that something to be worried about?

TIA!!

Hi John,

In the future, Can you include on the Portable App Launcher to run placed links/shortcuts on the Portable Apps Directory? In my opinion this would be cool for unzipped binaries placed elsewhere on the portable device and just linking the executables. Because I noticed that when i try to place the entire directory (e.g. nightly build of inkscape) all the exes are shown in the menu. I cant delete the other executables just to prevent them from showing up. It's just a small detail to add. Thanks

I have been using the portable apps suite from a thumb drive on a machine for the last couple of weeks. I was curious to see what is left behind when using these portable apps. I ran Nirsoft Regscanner 1.60. I punched in "portableapps" and ran a scan of the whole Registry. This is what I found. 78 items. Please explain.

http://www.screenshots.cc/view_image/8b6a1640/2007-12-13_001509.jpg

How much of what i do using this software is tracked on host pc? my web browser installed on my work pc is explorer...they obviously block certain sites, in all honesty not many, but using the firefox app, i get past all those blocks, now dont get me wrong i am not trying look at inappropiate sites at work, but can my web viewing be traced using the firefox app? i want to start using meebo.com, which is normally blocked by job pc browser, but not on firefox app...is this safe or should i refrain? any tips appreciated...

Thanx in advance.

I searched the forums here.

These seemed to get some good reviews.

(1) sandisk titanium cruzer Capacity: 1 Gig - 15Mbps
(2) Lexar JumpDrive Capacity: 1GB
(3) Memorex Rotodrive 2GB
(4) Sandisk Titanium Cruzer U3 4Gb
(5) PNY 2GB Attache Portable Flash Drive $19.99 Write Speed: USB 2.0
(6) PNY PNY Attache 4GB USB $38.99 Write Speed: USB 2.0

u3 removal tool
http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415

Q: Is there any difference between "USB 2.0" speed and 15Mbps in real life ?
Q: is #5 fairly fast ?

I click PortableApps_Suite_Standard_1.0.exe

The Setup form appears with my USB drive populated.

I click Install and get this 7-mix: Diagnostic message:
D:\PortableApps_Suite_Standard_1.0.exe is not supported archive

I tried changing the file name to PortableAppsSuite.exe

What do I do?

Thanks,
Weaver