General Discussion

I've spent the last three days going through documentation, official apps, and forum threads... A search of “command line arguments” brings up 13 pages alone, “CommandLineArguments” is 7 only pages but most of that can be found in the first search.

solanus' Folderz and QuickStart examples are great starters, however they don't cover CommandLineArguments. That said I haven't found enough information to help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Anyway this is my latest failed attempt..


[Format]
Type=PortableAppsFormat
Version=3.0

Dear Users,

I'd like my USB drive to appear with an icon I stored in the following path: Documents/Pictures/Icone di supporto/usb.ico, but it seems that I can't reach the correct syntax for Desktop.ini.

My attempt:


[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=.\Documents\Pictures\Icone di supporto\usb.ico
IconIndex=0


I don't know, the icon remains the default one.
Maybe a matter of attributes (hidden/system folder or anything similar?)

Thank you for your help!

CloneVDI
FreeCommander (the 2009 version that actually works)
Piriform CCleaner
Piriform Defraggler
FreeFileSync (it works for me)
QSlite

I know JTH will balk at FFS but it does work.

This list is intended for people to report progs they know to be portable rather than an exercise room for people with previous attitudes.

If you know of something that is freely available and portable tag on. I'll check the basics but if an App is something I'm not familiar with we'll need cross references
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When a newer version of Java is installed locally on the PC Firefox will launch applets with that newer version of Java even though Firefox will report that it is using the version portable version of Java both in about:plugins and the addons screen. If you launch the Java console and press s to get system properties you can see it is using the local copy. The confounds using the portable version to install Jars into the extensions or security directory. Is there any possible work arounds for this at all?

When running the portableapps internal updater, I get a prompt for a Google Chrome update ver. 42.0.2311.60 that fails to update. Upon checking the chrome release page for this build it seems that its a build for Chrome OS. Screenshots posted below.

When checking the latest build for my local version of Chrome it shows Version 41.0.2272.101 m as being the up to date version.

http://i57.tinypic.com/m9659w.png

I have used a lot of portable of PortableApps, including Google Chrome Portable.

I was happy when Google Chrome Portable save cache in the Temp folder, and delete cache automatically on exit.

But I do not see this in Opera Portable, SRWare Iron Portable. Its save cache in *Data\User\Default\Cache and not delete cache automatically on exit. This is not consistent with Portable.

Thank you for attention my opinion. Wish you good health.

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one of the advertisements here is the tv box
did any one try it
looks very tempting to buy

Sometime next week I'll make the leap from WinXP SP3 to Win8.1 as in, I won't have anything running XP natively on any home kit and the WinXP kit will retire to a long, active and happy Linux life.

I've stood for XP continuation through use for a while, this is the swansong for me.

There are a handful of other Win XP users here, to them I say goodnight and thank you for the journey.

To everyone else that bore with me and others, thank you for your time.

I managed to get it to appear and function there once, but then I moved another file and now I only get error messages whenever it is clicked on from the portable apps menu.

For the life of me, no matter how many different combinations of drag and drops/copy and pastes I cannot get the app to appear on the portableapps menu and be clicked on and work.

Can someone help? I have searched the forums and found some similar posts but the solutions weren't clear and/or didn't work.

Hi All:
Portable Apps is great and the bundled automatic updating is great. One change would make it even greater. That change is to the behavior of the updater when an application, for whatever reason, can't update. What happens then is the update process stops and a pop up screen appears saying "the app can't update because .......". It then asks you to click OK. Why wouldn't I?