General Discussion

Hi I am very new to portable apps but see the benefits in them. My first question is this, my icon in the file address line is not of a drive or anything similar in fact it looks like a small square with a red and green dot in it, what is it please? It took me 4 installs to get the basic program to open but i cant get thunderbird to start or load as i only get a dos window for a few seconds.
I have downloaded the 1.5.0.8 version and double clicked and i get is the dos window?

This may be slightly off topic but I couldn't find a better place to post.

Can anyone think of a reason NOT to use a USB 2.0 drive as a swap partition rather than an ATA 7200 rpm hard drive?

Here's the situation I have a machine that has a max of 1 GB of ram that I'm trying to make into a media server. Since this type of server does better the more RAM it has I'm considering using a larger swap file. I figure that since USB drives are solid state memory rather than HD based and they are fairly cheap I would get a 2 GB stick and create my swap file on it.

I found this website with 2 great portable apps (they are truly portable.) One called ChaosMD5 is a portable MD5 sum calculator, great for checking file integrity on-the-go also the second is called Chaos Crystal it allows you to adjust the transparency of a window you select! The latter is great for people how are Vistazing their comp, since most people have no clue how to get glassy effects or something similar! Plus for those who need to have lots of windows displayed at once Chaos Crystal is a great solution.

What about creating a new Forum for vista-specific questions?

I would just like to say thanks for making this portable apps start menu. This has made my thumb drive into an organized and valuable device....thanks for your time and dedication on this......Your work is much appreciated KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

one question though...what is the ETA on having OpenOffice 2.1 portable???

when are there going to be "portable app" apps? any new ones coming soon?

I am a Software Engineer. Recently, my company is planning to sell the mother boards and give our customers portable Apps.com software as free. Therefore, I would like to get the permission to modify the image, logo and icon, and only distributing the launchers. As its a legitimate business I work for, we don’t want to infringe on any copyrights or patents may have.

This has probably been covered, but I couldn't find the answer. When PortableApps is sitting in the system tray(ie: active), how do you stop it? All I want to do is remove my thumb drive, but WinXP won't let me because it's being used.

Thanks for any help you can offer,
Scott Bringen

Have recently downloaded the Vidalia 0.10-bundle including Privoxy and Tor and followed the instructions to make it portable:

http://portablefreeware.com/?id=1088

Everything is working fine so far - BUT...

I do not seem to be able to create a working .bat file wchich should start Privoxy, Vidalia+Tor and the Portable Firefox at once altogether.

Any idea what exactly should be in such a .bat for a layout as the following:

X:\Apps\PortableFirefox\PortableFirefox.exe
\Privoxy\privoxy.exe
\Tor\tor.exe

Is it possible to organize the order of the icons on the portable apps home screen?