General Discussion

I'm a little perplexed that on the home page it alludes to the app being able to be run from a cloud drive rather than a portable device? Yet there is no instructions anywhere on how to do this? Is it really meaning storing data on the cloud?

hi all i have warzone 2100 portable installed on my usb and use the game at home and free time on my course. on my course the computers running windows 7 and the game runs no problem there but at home im running vista and when i run the game the terrain does not appear. its there the game runs but no picture. any suggestions????

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MPlayer
MPlayer2
SMPlayer
MPC-HC

All of them light player.
All of them open source.
All of them recent update and seems active. (at the year 2012)

can you tell why portableapps.com prefer SMPlayer?
what the different? (beside the other is the fork of MPlayer)

thanks Tal.

Could someone please clean up the newest entry to the Off Topic Forum. It has been there for hours. I find it to be very offensive. Isn't there some kind of filter that PortableApps.com could be using to prevent this from happening again. Seeing this kind of offensive material makes PA look bad.

The new Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 seems to be the best for 4K writes:
search for ( best flash drive whoratesit )

But its not without issue (intermittent freezes)
search for ( sandisk random 4k comments whoratesit )

I am looking for better alternatives.

Thanks.

PS - I could not post direct links ... Please feel free to repost with the links if you know how.

Many anti-Virus and mal-ware detectors just assume that portable applications, i.e. applications running directly from portable mass memory devices (for example a pen drive) are security threats and they simply block the portable application execution.

A trivial, yet inelegant solution, is simply to disable the Anti-virus or Mal-ware programs. Besides inelegant, this solution leaves the host system unprotected and most of the time, to disable the protection features is required admin privileges which the visitor,trying to run the portable application, normally does not have.

Hi guys.

Sorry for what might seem like a simple question...but:

I have installed XAMPP, and XAMPP control panel.

They appear to work fine, I unzipped it to the root of my flash drive like i read to do, opened up the control panel, started Apache, Mysql - went into phpmyadmin, made a DB and some tables inside it.

I also have notepad++ installed from before, I created a simple page with just initializing a variable and then echo'ing it - however when previewed in Firefox it does not show the PHP elements.

Am I missing some obvious step here?

hay friend....hello i have just ask you a questions that poodle-v2.1 beta version is safe to use or in feature poodle-v2.1 version is changed?? give me some guidance....

Thought I'd pin PortableAppsPlatform.exe to the status bar so I wouldn't have to open the USB drive each time and run it. What happens, though, is a new instance is started each time you click it.

I've seen programs have the option "allow only one instance", but didn't see this in PortableApps anywhere...

For instance, running Objectdock, that hides the status bar, you have no access to PortableApps, so pinning it would allow you to bring it up as needed.

I was expecting chrome portable to behave more like firefox portable. I need the ability to save bookmarks, passwords, history, ect... Is this possible?

Thanks!