General Discussion

Hi All,

Just curious, has anyone tried using PortableApps via Google Drive to sync apps/data across multiple PCs?

On the IrfanView Portable page, the following text can now be removed, since we have the plugins available in PAF form.

IrfanView Plugins: You can download a zipped version of IrfanView Plugins to add features and functionality to IrfanView Portable. Just unzip the files to IrfanViewPortable\App\IrfanView\Plugins.

Can Somebody refer me to the right answers...

1. What are the advantages and what are the disadvantages of portable softwares? When shouldn't I use portable softwares?

2. How do I know if a software can be made portable? Is any software can be portable?

Would it be a serious mistake to
install PA in a location that is not a drive's 'root' (top) level ?

I think I read that
it is highly recommended to
install it at the drive's 'root' (top) level, but
I would prefer to install it somewhere else -
several levels lower.

Is that a very bad idea ?

Also:
Once the PA platform, & apps are installed,
can I simply scoop everything up, &
transplant it anywhere I want,
in the same, and/or other drive(s) ?

Thank you.

Since it hasn't been resumed for more than a year, do you think it should ever be halted?

I've filed already a bug report over at bugzilla about it. But they don't deal with the portable versions. They also seem not to be able to reproduce the bug in the regular install versions.

Both, FF Portable and TB Portable, since v.11, stop responding to user input after wake up from standby. Mainly drop down menus either don't drop down, or one can't scroll through the menus. Restarting both applications solves the issue instantly.

Can I ask which attribute is given at installation on a usb key to the PortableApps directory ?
It's not the read only attribute checked or not but a third one ? Which is it ? Under Win XP it is marqued by a blue square while read only is with a checkmark.

Hi All,

I have recently seen the porableapps site and started downloading apps from it. It is really helping me a lot and this is really awesome. I have downloaded Java 6update31 from portable apps and I have extracted it to a folder in my desktop. Now how can I use it? I guess I need to change the enviornment settings and point to this folder. But I dont have access to change the enviornment variables. Now can anyone help me in how to use this java 6 update 31? when I open command prompt and type java -version, it still shows the same old version.

Thanks,
Chaitanya.

I want to use Google Chrome Portable from a locked, write-only partition on a USB stick. However, an error message says this can only be done if the user allows writing to a temporary file on the host computer. I do not want to do that. Is there a way to change configuration or other files to allow such use?