General Discussion

Because Flash Drives have a limited numbers of write/delete I was wondering if the Portable Apps provided by PAM use a RAM Drive to use as temporary HDD storage instead the flash drive itself.

Does anyone know a good way to implement it?

Hmm I just realised this might not be possible as a ramdisk would rely on an system file to be installed :/

I use my portable apps flash drive on several different computers and I use it mainly for Thunderbird email so I can have a full record of all emails I send whether they are while working from home or the office. I run into a problem with my signature though. I have placed my signature on my flash drive and told Thunderbird where to look for it but a different drive letter gets assigned to the flash drive on my office computer (E:) than my home PC (F:). Is there a way to permanently assign a drive letter to my flash drive??

So I had my usb plugged in my computer when it started, and it got checked, like the c drive normally does, and it said the "volume is dirty". It works fine, but I wonder if I should be doing a defrag or disk cleanup on it? I know most folks say I don't need to do a defrag, as that just adds unneccesary wear to flash drive. Any other things one can do to clean it up or tidy the files?

Or by being a flash usb, it doesn't really need it?

Is it possible to install any standard application as a PortableApps and if so is there a tutorial avaliable?

Is it possible when you want to upgrade to a larger drive to just copy across the info on your current drive onto the new one or do you have to install everything again?

I am planning to install the PortableApps Suite and I read the "Installing PortableApps Suite" and it said it is best to install it right to the root directory of your portable drive (X:\ where X is the drive letter).

My question is... where is the root directory of my portable drive?? Do I just chick on to the letter to where portable drive is at..is that the root directory??

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Wilson_Ch...

When I saw dosbox I had to wonder, what for?

Well now I know! Check out this old DOS game, it's a classic! It plays better with dosbox than it did on my old computer when I paid good money for it.

http://www.abandonia.com/games/137/WingCommander

Hi guys, new to portableapps.com. Need some help/direction.
I have installed portableapps suite (Base Edition) on my external hard drive. I’m trying to find a guide on how to use the Menu. Or have I downloaded the wrong thing.
I want to store & play my music (using VLC). I also want to download some other portable applications directly into the menu but not mastered it yet.

I have read here briefly that there are reports of false positives with PA in connection with apps. However, I saved the registration email to html formay onto my desktop to view outside of Thunderbird once I had closed PA.

Imagine my surprise when AVG report a trojan from this file when I attempted to open it within firefox from my desktop installation of Windows Vista.

What gives ?

And how do I fix this trojan issue so as not to upset owners of systems I wish to use when overseas ? Would be downright unhealthy should a trojan alert appear on their system.