General Discussion

At my school we have laptops but all .exe files are blocked but we can run .jar files such as minecraft.jar is there anyway to run portableapps.exe as a .jar (executable jar file)

We're now starting to see more apps which are dropping support for Windows XP. I'm wondering how the community would like to handle this. We'd like to maintain a list of last-working versions for users to be able to obtain. We'll include a caveat about bugs, security issues, and it being unsupported, of course.

I am using Foxit portable as my default PDF program. Though I have set it to open pdf's in the browser (IE) it will not. Also, if I open a pdf stored on my computer, and I then go to a website and try to view a pdf in the browser (say a form 1040) I get the message that another instance of Foxit is running and to please shut it down.

Can anyone help?

Have a very frustrating problem that seems to be a conflict between running both Desktop Chrome and Portable Chrome at the same time. I get the message "Chrome detected that some of your browser settings were corrupted by another program and reset them to their original defaults" and had to resync everything. This wouldn't be that big of a problem if it weren't for:

1. I have a bunch of open tabs on Chrome Portable that I keep losing (Xmarks doesn't backup because Xmarks is signed out and even though the extension is synced back after Portable Chrome is wiped, its settings are lost).

is there an app here that can hack the password of wifi of your neighborhood?

i try to install/update flash player but it says cannot istall metafile. pls. help. thanks.

hi, im using a portable firefox. i updated it. when i try to download avast anti virus, i could not open the file. it says that, i should update the internet download manager. unfortunately, the update just could not finish. i dont the reason why. my idm has a crack file. could it be the reason? thanks for your help.

When Sysinternals' "Process Explorer" runs, it uses the registry to store its settings.

So when it is run on a PC that already has been set up to use Process Explorer (i.e. columns selected, colours chosen, font chosen, etc), these settings get irretrievably lost by the version of Process Explorer run from a PortableApps thumb drive.

"A portable app doesn't leave registry entries behind except those automatically generated by Windows"

Occasionally when I am running the PortableApps platform off of my 500GB Toshiba Canvio Connect Portable Hard Drive, all of the apps will crash and display the following message in a balloon from the notification area:

Windows-Delayed Write Failed

Windows was unable to save all the data for E:/@BitMap. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

when i installed portasbleapps on my USB when i check the properties of my usb it took 5gb of space its says it was 125mb but the size on disk was 5gb then i tried to install one app the size jumped from 8gb.