General Discussion

Could anybody advice one?

Hi, Nowdays most, if not all, USB flash drives come with preloaded software and formating to some extent. I don't know if I'm fully commited to installing PortableApps so I have a few questions.

1) Does PortableApps rewrite/reformat the entire drive or is it a standalone program?

> a)If so, is there a way to back up/rip ever piece of software/formating that is preloaded on the drive?

2)Does PortableApps also give me the option to save settings/desktop environment or just programs?

I downloaded, installed, and updated Portable Apps Suite and a few others. I love the concept of this as I have two 16 gig flash drives. Here is my problems as a biginner of sorts.

Problem 1.

Hello, I recently bought an 8 gb flash drive and have been looking to get some portable apps on it! I just installed the standard suite to the root directory of my flash drive, howver every time I try to start any of the portable apps exe's I get this error message:

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Any ideas?

Is it legal to create a portable launcher for a program that is free, but not open-source?

Since DVDShrink isn't portable (leaves files in app data folder), I was thinking of trying to make a portable launcher for it since I saw one person made one for EAC, which is free, but not open-source.

If I can't, that's cool. If I can, awesome.

Many of you have signed up for the newsletter, and have probably noticed it hasn't come. I'm sure this is just because John Haller is very busy with many other things. So I'm wondering, John would you be able to assign some people to work on the newsletter so people don't continue signing up for it and not receiving it. I saw this comment which was a long time ago. I know you say things will be released within like a week or something, and sometimes don't get around to them, and I don't blame you.

AVG Detected A Trogan Named

Generic3.FGK

Can Someone Please Explain This To Me And Why In The World Does This Have A Trogan In It..... :|

Hi,
First of all, I would like to thank John for these marvelous apps.
This morning however, when I plugged my usb stick into my computer I got notified by the antivirus program on the local machine that two files are infected with the trojan "Troj/Zlob-ADU". The 2 files were: VirtualDubPortable.exe and EraserPortable.exe. The 2 files were automatically deleted.
Did anyone else have this problem?
Help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

D.

It appears that the portable version doesn't handle command lines appropriately (not sure it was inteneded to do so - but I thought I'd report it in case your intent was to do so). I was attempting to take audio from a DVD so I could create an audio CD. Essentially converting the AC3 audio to WAV. I saw where MPlayer's command line would let me do this and using the following works to get the audio from the first chapter of a DVD when using Mplayer:

E:\PortableApps\MPlayerPortable\App\mplayer\mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -af resample=44100:0:0 -ao pcm:file=foo.wav -chapter 1-1 dvd://1

I'm new to PortableApps and very excited to find such a well-organized community of easily useable apps -- thanks to the developers and supporters!

The only questions I can't seem to answer easily are those involving security. I've been searching the forums with little success, so forgive me if my questions have already been answered. (If they have, please give links -- and please consider a Guide or something so that new users can find this info easily!)