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Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is legal to use the portable vesiones GIMP, inkscape or firefox mozilla offered portableapps.com?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

There is 3 part on my HDD:

C:\ Windows 7
E:\ Ntfs part (includes just my document files and portable apps)
F:\ Windows 8

I format Windows 8 and Windows 7 yesterday.

Now I can write for files on E:\ part with admin user. But windows 7's and windows 8's normal user can not write subdir of E:\.

Taht's why I can not use some portable apps They start as ready-only mode which is not good for me.

How can I give full-control permission for all user of Windows 7 and Windows 8 (admin and other normal users) for E:\ and it's subdirs?

Hi I am wondering what the best defrag app is available on portable apps.

so far i have seen
JkDefrag
Smart Disk Cleaner
wise disk cleaner

are theses or any others better. I currently use JkDefrag and it works great.

appreciate any of your ideas and tips on this regard.

To quote from an official page of the site: "A portable app doesn't leave registry entries behind except those automatically generated by Windows".

But this isn't true of everything available here, for instance Skype and the utilities from Sysinternals (Microsoft), and possibly others. And Skype, even in the portable version, still puts things in the user's profile on the system partition.

Just noting this. These items are still much lighter weight than their non-portable variants.

djc

I was being tempted to buy a shiny USB3 device on this site and then I remembered that I had promised myself not to use devices that didn't allow me to write-protect the contents if I had to use them in someone else's PC...

I did a search (I tried "Write lock") but most discussion dated back to 2007 and were quite short anyway. Two questions:

1. Does anyone know of an "ordinary" USB drive that has the write protect feature that I have with an SD card in a USB "convertor"

hi peeps
i was wondering if anyone knew if there is such a program that looks for grammar error inside a folder tree. like a program that checks all the files inside a folder and subfolders.

Hi John,

I've downloaded Opera Portable, navigate Other\Source folder but I cannot found source code of Opera Portable Launcher, can you provide me your Opera Source code, I really need it, I want to know some of your technique to make Opera Portable.

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/opera_portable

Many thank!
Best regards,

Is there a way to have a listing of the dates application were auto-updated.

I just had about 5 or 6 apps updated...and I did not note which ones...so I don't know which ones to copy from my usb stick to my hard drive.

Also, is there a way to let a list of apps installed on the usb stick should it die and I want to reconstruct it?

thanks

Yesterday I reinstalled my Windows. After that I found all the splash screens of the portable apps went black. Normally before I reinstall my Windows, the splash screen can show up, but now, only a black rectangle.
Is there something missing in my computer system? Why this occurs? Thanks for any help.

Here is the screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/d0En1mU.png

Can anyone recommend a way for me to sync all my Apps with my multitude of devices? Specifically, a corporate PC that blocks Dropbox and Google Drive and sync it with two more home PC's that I have? Should I sync via USB or cloud? Any advice would be appreciated...Thanks.