Beta Testing

Well AutoStart has been released. I finally felt comfortable enough with its quality to release it to the general public. So now I'd like to get some feedback and drive the bugcount to zero.

For those of you who haven't heard of AutoStart, it is a Launcher for portable apps designed to be both tiny in size and extendable. It creates icons in the taskbar notification area for every USB Flash Drive you have attached to your system.

It can be distributed under GNU General Public License and the sources are availalbe from the Liberta project page. To see the sources you'll need to go to the sourceforge website and look in the subversion repository of Libertà.

I've posted a pre-release of 1.5.0.7 for testers. Despite this being an incremental upgrade of Firefox, the portable version is seeing a number of changes. If we could get some folks giving these another once-over before they're released to the world, that would be great...

• Unicode Command Lines - As posted in the FFP launcher thread, this release now supports unicode paths passed on the commandline.
• Win 95/98 Live Support - There was an issue affecting Live mode under Win 9x that has been fixed.
• Alternate Directory Structures Dropped - All alternate directory structures have been dropped. This allows for a more simplified launcher and increases startup time a bit. You can always use an INI to setup your own structure. the readme.txt is now linked to right in the help file.

Please Note: Portable Apps Backup 1.0 RC 1 has been released, so this topic has been retired.

I've just posted a first beta of the new Portable Apps Backup utility I'd mentioned in-forum previously. This is a simple backup utility (using 7-Zip internally) that allows you to easily backup your portable drive. It's got some handy features that I think lots of users will appreciate:

• Standard Directory Suport - It supports the standard directory layouts of the upcoming Portable Apps Suite 1.0 release (Documents directory where your documents live, PortableApps directory where the individual AppNamePortable directories live). No configuration is required. The options include:

I have created a new portable version of the editor named GVim (which is the gui-version of vim).

New features:

• Directory structure is compatible to portableapps.com
• use a default vimrc if the user does not provide one (needed for in-place upgrades)
• live-cd support: there is no single write operation
• fancy splash-screen

The selfextracting archives can be downloaded from their temporary locations.

The full featured version (4.48 MB):
[edit]now released on http//portablegvim.sf.net[/edit]

A lightweight version (1.98 MB):
[edit]now released on http//portablegvim.sf.net[/edit]

This is NON-this site launcher , but I think it will be profit.

_http://surfer56.googlepages.com/RunNOD32.exe

This is portable launcher for nod32 antivirus
But it works only on version 2.51.28 I can't run it on 2.51.25

Author : MiKiCuN Portable

Final version released, locking topic.
https://portableapps.com/apps/games/mines-perfect_portable

I have downloaded and am running Thunderbird version 2 alpha 1 (20060724). I know that it is in beta testing and I believe that I have found a bug. I have received an e-mail with an imbedded image and am unable to save it. I right click and select save and nothing happens. This happens with each imbedded picture. If there is a way to fix this then that would be great.

I've just posted a pre-release of OpenOffice.org Portable 2.0.3 and need some folks to test it out... especially if you use Windows 2000 and had the old issue of it not being able to open or save files before I included a default set of settings. For the unfamiliar, OpenOffice.org is a complete office suite (word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, etc). This new release is the result of quite a bit of research and experimentation, allowing me to add some of the new features:

Live CD Support - OpenOffice.org Portable now supports runnings from a CD. Just install it to a local drive and run it once, making any settings changes you like within OpenOffice.org. Then exit out and copy the OpenOfficePortable.ini file from OpenOfficePortable\Other\OpenOfficePortableSource to the OpenOfficePortable directory. Edit it and change the RunDataLocally parameter to true. Then, run it again from your local drive so that the launcher can pre-configure OpenOffice.org to run from a read-only media. Finally, you can burn the OpenOfficePortable directory to a read-only drive. The OpenOffice.org files will run directly from the read-only media. The settings files will be copied to the local machine within the My Documents directory (specifically to a directory called OpenOfficePortableTemp within there). When complete, this directory will be deleted.

Lapwing 1.0 RC2 has now been uploaded at

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/liberta

This should fix all of the memory errors. There maybe a couple of issues with the reading back of values from the INI files into your program, testing would be appreciated.

Hi all,

I have put Lapwing 1.0 RC1 up at this address:

www.sourceforge.net/projects/liberta

It DOES have a number of issues. I would like to ask you all if when you use the application you run Regmon n the background and then post up the details of the last attempted write of that program, e.g. the attempt that failed. This should help me to pin down a munber of bug. Note file names with spaces are not supported at the moment.