General Discussion

So does the Google Chrome Portable installer download a fresh copy of Google Chrome from the Google servers?

The following works great: Running the Portable Apps launcher, and then selecting a specific portable app to run.

I'm wondering if it is equally as easy to run Portable Apps without the launcher UI.

Here are my questions:

1. Is it possible to run a Portable App (and keep it portable) without having the Portable Apps launcher UI running? For example, to run portable app ABC, can you just run ABCPortable.exe (where "ABCPortable.exe" is any of the Portable Apps available through the PortableApps launcher)?

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Hello everyone.
I have an idea, don't know if is it possible (but I guess so).
The idea is: as you launch portableapps.com platform from your drive, sset file association and default programs, then as you exit everything should be turned back to OS defaults.
Please, let me know if will this be added.

Bye, Ivano.

Hello @all,

Although the language is set to English or British English in the options menu, the language of many applications eg VLC anf Filezilla and Ultratorrent is still displayed in the operating system language, as this Japanese,this makes it extremely difficult to change anything! And is one of my prime reasons for using the postableapps base. In fact, if the language of VLC is changed to English, the application language of the original install of VLC changes as well!

All,

ESET NOD32 AntiVirus is reporting false positives for the PAF.exe files. I have submitted a support ticket with them:

There are several virus false positives being reported for Portable App Distributions. Most notably McAfee Stinger Portable and Kaspersky TDS Killer are detected as having a trojan.

https://portableapps.com/apps/security/mcafee-stinger-portable

Hi All,

I wanted to share that Gord Caswell has agreed to assist us on the Website Administrators team in addition to his duties as an app packager and forum moderator. Please join me in congratulating him in his new role and thanking him for his already-invaluable years of service!

Best,
John

How would i load an already made portable program, so that it shows up on the menu?
if even possible.
Many thanks.

I'm planning on making a launcher for Hugin Panorama tools and have one question.
Is it possible to make a portable app that uses a different version of the app for different OS versions?

Here's the full story. The last version of Hugin that was compatible with Win XP was version 2013.0.0
But they are now at version 2016.2.0 for both 32 and 64 bit versions used for versions of Vista and later.
So, since I want to maximize the compatibility of the app, I'd like to make it able to start the lower version if XP is detected. But is that possible?