General Discussion

I think everyone (techies mainly) should buy U3 Flash Drives not for the launchpad itself, but for the autorun mechanism. After growing quite bored with the bulky u3 launchpad, i've explored the art of cd partition replacement. By doing this i have been able to:

Autorun a favorite app launcher
&
Autorun an encrypted volume

Here are the simple steps i've taken:

Does anyone out there know about a web site that hosts free online virtual desktops? Where you could just go to the site, sign in, and do everything you would normally do on a computer within a Java applet? That would would be so cool. The thought came to me when I checked out the site www.meebo.com. After you sign in, you have this instant messenger that you can drag to anywhere within the page. You can also open, close, or resize windows. But it's only for instant messaging, there's nothing like a web browser or anything.

Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable and Sunbird Portable are GONE!!!
Its now

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition

Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition

Takes out the continuity of PortableApps' names ;-(

Will launchers such as RocketDock (www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock) or RK Launcher (home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/) substitute for PStart or PortableApps Menu? I really like these.

I know that, in general, Windows XP doesn't autorun USB drives when they are plugged in. I have just bought a new U3 drive which does autorun via the fancy U3 menu stuff.

What I don't particularly want to do is to buy into the whole U3 thing, with U3 versions of apps, etc. For example, I have a portable password manager, which is not U3 compatible. I'm happy with it, and I don't really feel the need to change to a different one.

i've known portable apps has been around - heck, i've downloaded some and used it on my pc, but now that i have my 2nd thumb drive, i'm really into it. I have spent about 5hours making 3 apps protable. the first 2 were kinda of a test to see how easy it was [was hell at first], but is not bad.

here are the programs i made portable [ and tested ]

Num Program Name Installed Size Portable Size
==== =========================================== ================ =============

Hello,

I just signed up here. I'm new to the PortableApps suite, having downloaded it to a new 1 GB flash drive just a couple of days ago. So far, I'm very impressed.

I wanted to say THANK YOU to the team of folks who created PortableApps. I'm amazed that I can now carry all my fave programs and settings around with me. I've used Firefox and Thunderbird and OpenOffice, and I love them, but I've also discovered some new programs that are fast becoming favorites, such as Sunbird and Audacity. My next step will be to try out some of the beta applications here.

Hello everyone. My USB Hard drive is currently with a friend and won't be returning for a few months. Could somone e-mail me some portable app installers as attachments?

To save some loading time... Can I disable the portable apps picture before the app is starting? There is no need for advertising portableapps beacause I already advice everyone how great portableapps are.

I am using portable Apps on an encrypted flash drive. I loaded the apps on an XP desktop machine, then put the drive into a Win2k machine and the Portable Apps Menu stopped working. I can launch the .exe files by double clicking their icon, directly, but that is not how it is supposed to go. Also, I wanted to show a friend who has an IBM Thinkpad and the Menu didn't work and when I opened the directory that contains the applications, the icons didn't display. Can anyone help me?