General Discussion

Hi,

I want to make portable MS Office 2010. But I know that its licence (as many other applications) does not allow to distrubite it after making it portable (editing it in any way).

That's why I am asking if it is possible (it is legal) to create articles by developers like: "how to make your portable MS office 2010 from your own installation file" step by step. So every user can make MS Office 2010 portable.

Hi Forum.

I find the Updater very useful and comfortable; but, I wonder, where does it locate the temporary setup files of the Apps going to be updated?

Because if the location is directly on the same drive of the PortableApps Menu folders, as I suppose, and it is a USB drive, this download would be slower than on the PC.

In this case, I would prefer to manually download the Setup from the browser to the PC, and to install on the USB afterwards.

Bye Forum.

Hi together!

there are many portables out there.
But unfortunately not each of them have .paf-extension.
In some times it is simply a .zip or others.

Is there a (simple) possibility to add such a type of portable to the platform?

Please explain!
THX a lot/C

Hello all,

Sorry to bother you guys. I am coming from a networking background, so have no idea about the programming world.

I wanted to distribute my users a custom Chromium Browser, so they may access our Squid proxy over Google SPDY Protocol.

I have been generally starting Chromium on desktop with an argument like

Start> Run and then type c:\chrome-win32\chrome.exe --proxy-pac-url=https://mydomain.us/proxy.pac --use-npn

I had appended this to a previous post about Windows 8 and Metro but the browser attempted to post multiple times thus it was not posted.

My feature request is to have the menu, or app that allows you to manage windows shortcuts, as well as copy them into the portable folder for later use.

I believe this will be useful due to all the vitriol over Windows 8 and Metro and would keep PA.com on top right into the future, as it is the only menu that gets and keeps applications current from a directory of both brilliant and useful programs.

while scanning https://portableapps.com/apps by eye i did a double take as the icon for Security looks just like a watering can at first glance ... to me anyway. i do know it is a lock and a torch (or at least that is what i think it is). anyway, it made me smile.

have a nice day, all

Things although better since automatic update from the menu are now very poor in my view usability wise and are prompting me to find alternatives, e.g. non-portable.

Surely these apps know when Windows is closing?

I just bought a Seagate Freeagent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive (1TB) and installed Portable Apps Platform along with my favourite Portable Apps. My understanding is you cant eject this Portable hard drive at all? even from the portable apps platform?

Thanks

Let's say that a person (We'll call him Bob), made a portable app (let's say app XYZ)a while back. The app XYZ has been updated several times, but the portable app appears to have been abandoned. If after posting a comment on the portale apps page, you still don't get a reply from the author, my question is this. How long should a person wait, before they assume it is abandoned? I've had several apps I've considered updating, but don't want to be considered rude, or step on anyone's toes...

Maybe I've missed it on this site, but does anyone know of a personal firewall app that can be run from a USB drive?

It would be useful when using my USB drive on a public computer to prevent other PC's on the network from pinging my PC, and in general, accessing it at all.

Thank you.