General Discussion

I've used the portable apps menu for some years, always been a fan of the simplicity and the fact that it does what it says on the tin, as it were. Been using the same version of the platform (menu ?) for some years, as it just works, with no unnecessary bells and whistles. However, got a new flash drive today, so thought I'd download and install the latest one, 10.1.2. Didn't want the music so went for the 'basic' one. Oh dear. What's happened to the simple, uncomplicated menu I knew and loved ? Program firing off unasked, window grabbing the focus offering me stuff.

I have a pc with way less RAM than it should so I'm hoping to help alleviate that problem by switching to a portable version of antivirus so I'm wondering: do portable apps run directly out of the ram of the flash drive or do they still use ABOUT the same amount of the the pc's system ram? (I.e. does using the portable version free up ram or just harddrive space?) Thanks for any help.

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With the upcoming (and currently testing) windows 8, I have a question... Many of us uses portable apps instead of installed apps in our computers as a way to keep our registries clean, in my case, I also use portables apps to keep it in my D:\ partition instead of using my smaller c:\ one (this is because I have extra partitions for Ubuntu), and that way I can also use portable apps on linux (trough wine) if I need/want to.

I'm testing windows 8, and now I'm trying to figure out a way to do it, and that's why I came here once more to ask...

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After struggling for two days with glitches on the regular FF 12 and 13, I finally gave up and just installed portable FF 13 right onto my C drive and it's working like a charm!

I don't have the platform for now, but when I get it, I'll uninstall this and put it on the platform. The platform didn't seem to work well with the programs installed on the computer, but it works great from my Passport external drive, so I'm using it.

Hi, with school starting again in a couple months, I figured i should start using mostly portable apps again (so i have same programs at school and home)

So i hadn't used the platform in awhile, and when i got it this time, I saw it had a way to get the apps through the platform rather than downloading and installing each one seperately. I selected all the ones i wanted and let it do it's thing.

As stated I am a total beginner to all this, can apps be put on my htc desire z, and motorola xoom?

I am looking for a simple spreadsheet, database and wordprocessor. They are both android machines.

Thanks in advance.

I know, probably a stupid question, but I work at a job that requires me to use either FF 12 or 13, and I'm having a very hard time with them. The Portable FF13 works great. I installed it onto my desktop, and it was working fine until I uninstalled the original FF13, then it just disappeared from the list of apps. I tried reinstalling it, and it said it reinstalled, but it isn't there.

When I use a portable app with a USB drive on someones computer and complete whatever I was doing and remove the drive, is anything left behind that will either change the host computer or identify my usage.

I was always a U3 user and part time portable app user. U3 programs left nothing behind on the host computer but portable not only left things behind but also changed things on the host computer.

In the table of languages I have searched after an appropriate LocalName for the Bosnian language. But I can't find such a LocalName. On Wikipedia I found out, that the Bosnian language is related with the Croatian or Serbian language. Personally I have decided, that I can use for the Bosnian language the LocalName "Serbian" or "Croatian". What do you think?