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I have an old laptop that has Windows XP and I would like to move it to Linux. What is the best version? Ubuntu? Which Portable Apps will work with Linux? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

Good day everyone.

I've read some thread regrading the creation of the said file(*.paf.exe) but i don't seem to understand it well.

So please give me a clear instruction on how to create or transform a non-portable application to a "*.paf.exe" file.

Let me start: I have an installer of an application, named "mine.exe", what are the steps that i should do to make it a "mine.paf.exe"?

Open Contacts is an advanced address book program for managing contact info of individuals and organizations with relationships. Distributed as freeware, the program was designed for people who need more beyond ordinary address book programs in order to improve dynamic interactions with contacts.

Please check http://www.fonlow.com/opencontacts/Download.htm

I wanted to find a list of commercial games that are successfully used as portable, but couldn't find one - so here I go.
Please fill in the list with games and info, and please start separate threads for any posts that isn't adding a game to the list.

Game: Imperialism
Genre: Turn-based strategy
Year: 1997
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism_(game)
How to make it work: Just copy an existing installation to the PortableApps-folder

I don't know about you but I find Firefox doesn't always work so fast running off USB. Especially USB1 in old internet cafes.

This makes some plugins like Lazarus (form saver) unusable.

There's been talk of ramdrives and local caching in the past to speed things up. But the last I saw this mentioned was way back in 2007. Ramdisk.tk is now down.

Has there been any progress on this since then?

A lot of freeware apps have rules about how to distribute them, whether it is allowed or not, and how.

I would like to clear the air/have it cleared on what denotes modification, and whether it is allowed based on the EULA of a program

Take for example Project64:
The authors are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned, this software may be distributed for free, never sold in any way, as long as the original archive and software included is not modified in any way or distributed with ROM images.

(supplemental, from another file included)

I'd like to put out a call for someone to take over WinWGet. Currently, it is not functional on Windows 7 (and possibly Vista), so it will be pulled from the PA.c directory. It appears that it's simply a matter of altering the command line call to wget. It's a Delphi app and requires additional components installed like CoolTrayIcon and LockBox. It should work with just about any version of Delphi, but preferably older versions.

After integration of the program in the PortableApps.com Platform it`s impossible to change the language permanently. Only in the case of installation NOT in the Platform can performed a durable change of language.

I've been having problems with portable Chrome crashing for several weeks now. I found an old USB stick with Chrome 3.0 and it seems to work fine. However, I downloaded Chrome 8 to this stick and it will not run. Chrome will open, but will crash as soon as I try to load any website. Any ideas?

btw, I've tried the newer Chrome on 3 different jump drives and all 3 crashed.

Is there an app or is it built into PAM2.0 where it will close all open apps when ejecting the drive.

Any insight into this much appreciated