General Discussion

Is there a portable app available that can index inside the files on my thumb drive?

For example, I have a thumb drive that has all of my school notes as well as textbooks on it. They're in doc, pdf, html, and chm format. I'd like to be able to do instant searches for keywords like I can with the windows desktop search.
Is there a (free) portable app that can do this?
Thanks,
Ari

I've been trying to create an portable app for a Mitsu parts software called CAPS (computer automatic parts search). But I seem to be having some problems!

Is this one of those that cant be made into a portable app?

Hi everyone.

I'm looking for specific functionality that I'd be interested if any of you knows is possible.

Basically I want to do the following:

- take snapshot
- install bunch of apps
- take snapshot
- compare snapshot and make package

Then have the ability to install package / deinstall package at will.

Basically I want to portable-ize my after effects plugins, but without portable-izing after effects.

I'm curious, regardless of what menu/platform you use to launch your portable apps, do you use custom icons to represent things like application categories? If so, what (free) icon sets do you use?

I prefer the Vista-style folder layout (Documents, Music, Videos as siblings) to XP-style organization (Music, Videos as children of Documents folder).

How can I configure PA.c launcher for this layout?

I noticed we've added a Facebook widget to the bottom of forum pages. The problem is that it's a collection of random avatars and therefore looks very unprofessional; I would rather see a Facebook button or something than this thing.

Frankly I don't see the point of the widget anyway. If I were into social networking I'd click the Facebook link and go there to see who's a fan (I think that's the Facebook terminology) or not, but I'm not, so I don't particularly like having it shoved down my throat.

Hello all, I am new to this so I am sorry if this sounds stupid
I have been using portable applications for a while now and recently upgraded to windows 7 but every time I try to launch an application it gives an error message

'Main program has stopped working,
windows is searching for a solution'
and soon after the application shuts down, some applications have a little pop app on the side saying something about thinapp suit packer

all these software ran well in xp, but I can't even run firefox or skype any more..

I'm wanting to clarify if freeware online installers are ok to be included on the development test release table. This came up in a recent discussion and I couldn't find anything on the forums to indicate as such.

John, can you clarify this and if there isn't a hard and fast rule as yet would anyone like to weigh in with what they think on the matter.

Thanks

Hi guys, first post here so if I have posted this in the wrong forums I am greatly sorry. I was reading a blog post about U3 v. PApps.com and in the comments someone said just install portable apps within U3. Is this possible, if so how do I do it? I had to reinstall U3 because I tried using PackageFactory (Wouldn't delete app). Please do not ask why I am using U3.

Just discovered this site and found myself wondering what the drawbacks are for portable applications? Google wasn't much help on this. Not being a professional programmer, I don't understand why it isn't EASIER to create a portable application as opposed to using Windows's labyrinthine User, AppData, and so on directories.