General Discussion

This may be a silly question, but I appear to be able to use all the portable apps on a thumb drive (usb stick) just fine, but I recently got a little (lol, my first hard drive was a huge 10 mb) 60gb usb hard drive. I am especially not able to run Firefox from that drive. Most of the other apps work although I have not done an extensive test (I downloaded Suite Standard). Firefox seems to fail trying to write back to the drive and immediately shuts down. Is this something inherent in Firefox, something peculiar to Portable Apps or something strange on my end.

just wondering if there are any programs than can create a auto-run CD/DVD menu in PA.

I was thinking of creating something like the free computer magazine dvds have. i would prefer not to use a web browser for this but not against it.

Fire away

Just to help people and bring up the subject, and maybe to suggest that it should be written on the support pages for helping portable apps (at least Firefox) run faster, I suggest using a defragmenting program to defragment your thumb drive.

Hey John, do you have a high quality or a large version of the PortableApps Logo?

Can i use/launch the apps without an launcher?

i want to change the names of the apps from "app nameportable" to "app name"
i read this article but i can't figure it out
please help

please tell me, what are the advantages of using Portableaps.com?
why portable is better than non-portable?

sorry for my english

I liked PortableApps.com so much that I decided to spread the word and write about them.

I have also placed some of my favourite portable apps, along with some tips and troubleshooting.

HOWTO: transport your tools with PortableApps.

I would be grateful to receive any feedback on it too.
Among the troubleshooting was things I did to get Windows Vista autorunning content again after VMWare disabled it.

I was searching for a Google Chromium link and came across this....

[link to illegal software removed by mod JTH] It mentions and has a link to portableApps.com, and links to the suite, but is the name, or site for that matter, legal? Only one letter difference in the name. What do you think?

InformationWeek September 26, 2008 Article

1. Take Your Programs With You

"The single best repository for free applications that can live on a thumb drive is PortableApps, a large and continually growing collection of liberally licensed open-source programs in almost any category."

Kudos to John and all the contributors to the development of PortableApps!