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PicPick Color Palette Cannot Be Closed or Moved

Submitted by Chim on February 12, 2017 - 7:38pm

I can't remember for sure, but I might have experienced this problem in previous versions and I just forgot or didn't get around to reporting it. Anyway, for sure the problems are in the current version --- 4.4.2.

The functions of the Color Palette appear to work fine. It's just that when it's time to close it, the X at the upper right just doesn't work. It doesn't do anything. I end up having to close the entire GUI or exiting via the System Tray menu.

Download Portable ZIP

Submitted by annakatarina on February 12, 2017 - 5:35pm

Hallo, ich wollte mir Google Chrome Portable downloaden. Ihr bietet den hier an, aber das ist gar kein "Portable". Es wird eine .exe Datei beim Klick auf Download gedownloaded und kein ZIP-File. Nach dem Anklicken der online.paf.exe wird ein kleines Fenster geöffnet, das einen "Installer" installieren will. Das habe ich weggeklickt. Ich will keinen Installer! Ich will Portable!

Firefox 52 discontinues NPAPI plugin support (Java, Silverlight, etc)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 6, 2017 - 7:23pm

Mozilla has announced that Firefox will discontinue support for Java, Silverlight and other NPAPI plugins in March 2017 with Firefox 52 with the exception of the Flash plugin. The 64-bit version of Firefox already does this, only supporting Flash. With version 52 of Firefox, due on March 7, 2017, no NPAPI plugins will be supported other than Flash. At that point, you can continue to use the Firefox Portable ESR release if you need to use NPAPI plugins like Java.

Lack of some functions after migration from a broken USB flash drive

Submitted by redbearded on February 6, 2017 - 6:20am

Hi team,

Here is my story.

I've been using PortableApps for years. I've changed 3 of 4 USB flash drives for that period. My previos USB flash drive worked fine but couple months ago it broke. Fortunately I've manged to read all data. I took another USB flash drive, performed format (exFAT) and copy all portable applications and data. Then I launched Start.exe as usual. It seemed everything worked fine. But some days later I discovered that at least two applications work not as expected.

Opera portable +login and pasword

Submitted by mrseguin on February 5, 2017 - 9:40pm

Hi Everybody,

First sorry for mistake because English is not my mother tongue.

I'm new using portableapps but I like the idea of having everything nomad beause Its so practical at our times:)
I'm using opera portable that I love stored on a patitionned hard drive (my main hard drive C: is for the system and D: is for portableapps)

Run installed Teamviewer without Teamviewer Service like the PortableApp

Submitted by liamZ on February 4, 2017 - 7:25am

Hi, I want to find a way to run Teamviewer installed on Windows with the teamviewer Service removed or disabled, but every time a run Teamviewer.exe, it prompts to elevate privileges to start the teamviewer service. The PortableApp doesn't do that.

Anybody knows what can I do or tweak to completely disable the Teamviewer service on an installed version of teamviwer?

Thanks.

Cannot download emails from email server sites (e.g., Gmail).

Submitted by Dr.Mu on January 30, 2017 - 8:37pm

Hello,
Suddenly today, the Thunderbird stopped downloading emails from an email server site (in my case Gmail) w/ the following message.

"!!! The folder inbox is full, and cannot hold any more messages. To make room for more messages, delete any old or unwanted mail and compact the folder. [OK]"

Even after deleting 1000s and 1000s of emails, the error message is the same, and I still cannot download any more emails.
Isn't it maybe, one of the email files became corrupt and lost [EOT], so the TB sees the file to be infinitely big.

Looking for someone to do a quick job

Submitted by mrhobbeys on January 30, 2017 - 6:50pm

I was updating my apps and installing a few when I realized that you guys have already solved a problem I have.

I would be willing to pay to have someone help me because I need to wrap up some loose ends of my business before it sells.

Basically, I have a few pieces of software that I need to create installers for (2 already have their own) and then one script that I need to run. I was thinking NSIS could do this and I started trying to figure it out a couple of years ago, but I have never made it that far. Typically I get distracted by seemingly more important problems.

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