General Discussion

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?

http://www.portablepython.com/
currently, based on py25 on windows
Portable Python is a Python programming language preconfigured to run
directly from a portable device, enabling you to have, at any time, portable
programming environment. Just download and extract to your portable device and
in 10 minutes you are ready to create your next Python application.

The backup routine provided with the Portable Apps Suite used to work, now it fails just after it starts, and says to 'check your configuration'. Any ideas? The backup path exists.

I do not see where to set any other configuration parameters.

When leaving my thumb drive in the USB slot while booting/rebooting, scan disk occurs.

This occurs when I leave my thumb drive in the port and simply reboot. Is there a way to prevent the scan disk from running every single time, when I know the volume was unloaded previously (without having to hit a button on every boot up)?

I know it's trivial, but it just annoys me.

Jon

I just read "Safe Portable App-ing", and the rules there are so cruel that I don't believe I can follow it strictly.

I appreciate your assertion that "Whenever you plug your portable drive into an unknown computer, you should assume that it may now be infected with a virus", but I cannot accept that I need to virus scanning my USB stick and keep those backups all the time.

I have a program that requires a file to be in the WINDOWS directory. Is there any way using NSIS to trick that program into thinking that file (which i have on the drive) is in the WINDOWS directory?

thanks in advance.

(sorry if I put this post in the worng forum. I'm new here)

elyea

Hi there,

I am one of the maintainers of the open source medical record app GNUmed (wiki.gnumed.de). It's written in python and is portable. I made it run from an USB drive and have modified the official Abiword installer / launcher to include it into the portable apps launcher.

What is the policy to make it a member of the portableapps program family ? I mean for it to be possible/legal to use the portable apps splash screen like the ones for the programs on the website and maybe get a website like this https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable

What are the downsides of UPXing the EXEs?

Im guessing the app menu is UPX'd as its over 1mb when compiled but what about the other apps, Firefox for example can be upx'ed down from 7mb to 3mb. Im guessing there is a reason its left as is, either legal or technical.

Edit: Just found out UPXing an exe is a modification so in the case of FF breaks the license agreement. Understandable.