General Discussion

My friend had no applications on his XP machine, so I installed Portable OpenOffice, Gimp, and several others in a folder I named "PortableApps" in his Program Files directory on drive C. I put shortcuts to the applications on his Quick Start toolbar.
Everything works fine, but Stellarium had to be installed in its own folder on drive C because it can't handle spaces in directory names.

Since a longer time I use the Platform from the Website [link removed by mod JTH] instead of the PortableApps.com Platform. The reason for my personal decision is, that in the Platform of [link removed by mod JTH] I can integrate the software in several categories (Internet, Multimedia, Graphics, System, Security, Office, Utility and Extra). I my opinion is this GUI better and clearly arranged as the PortableApps.com Platform. What about with a little change of the GUI of the PortableApps.com Platform in this direction?

Best regards tapsklaps

Dear Forums,

I added an additional drive to my machine. The new drive C:\ holds the Windows system partition and, of course, the PortableApps directory (C:\PortableApps).
The new drive C:\ is a copy or clone of the former system drive, which is now known as F:\.

Whenever I download and install a new PortableApp on my system, it wants to install into the old system drive F:\PortableApps, not the new C:\ location.

Could you please point me into a direction how to fix this?

Thanks alot,

NiM

Anyone know of any, preferably open source, portable mouse gesture applications? I want one that is universal across Windows, not just for my browser so no "FireGestures" please. I only know of gMote and StrokeIt, neither are open source. Both are already portable to the best of my knowledge. I use the freeware gMote but it is slightly buggy and I don't see a version 2 coming any time soon (it has some annoying bugs that are hindering me).

Has anyone attempted to make an independent DShow environment so that one could use a DShow-based player like MPC-HC (I saw that there was work on the player, but AFAICT, it depends on the host for codecs outside of its limited built-in capabilities)? VLC and SMPlayer are fine for low-resolution videos, but I'm pretty sure neither has an AVC decoder that supports any kind of offloading to the video card (ffdshow supports DXVA, CoreAVC supports CUDA and is extremely optimized overall, etc.).

I seem to remember reading somewhere that along the way we'll be able to sort and organize apps in folders by category!? I really like that idea as "favorites" just doesn't cut it when you have over 100 apps on your drive (203 subfolders in the PortableApps folder by last count I also like the current PA category structure (e.g. Internet/Browsers/ for Chrome etc.) but I have a suggestion for all those non-official PortableApps that a lot of us is carrying along as well.

Hello,

I'm intrested in writing a SRS document on PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB (Vers. 1.6.1.0). If you have questions about what it is you can check it out here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Requirements_Specification).

If you're ok with it, would you be willing to provide me with information (manual, explain functions, etc) in case I need any?

is there a portable tiwtter application?

As I have tried to tell people before, there is a paste bug in Notepad++, and Notepad++ adds "?" character to pasted text.

Try this and see for yourself. Go to any youtube video, and then highlight and copy the entire text message posted by someone. Then paste it into a notepad++ text file and notice that "?" characters will appear randomly in the text.

But interestingly, some text pasts OK, but some add a random ?

So try a few different comments and copy and paste them.

Hello there,

A question for the portal admin.

Not sure if it's my firefox settings (master password set but not logged all the time to the credentials) or drupal / forums on portableapps.com but for every page / link I open it seems it asks for login and this is annoying when I do not actually to post something on the forum but only to download an app or read posts.

Isn't there a cookie setting so the portal does not ask to login every time which of course brings my firefox's "login with master password" to popup?

Cheers.