General Discussion

Alright, I wasn't too sure if this was the right forum or not, but here goes. I want to run Reason (a music making program) solely on my flash drive at College, but the problem is, when the .exe runs, it tries to store files on the computer, but this isn't allowed since you have to be the administrator and all. I was wondering if there was a way for me to get around this? I guess the only thing I really have to do is redirect where the .exe is trying to run and have it run off of my flash drive, but I have no clue how to do that...

I saw an old blog asking if portableappz.com was illeagal because it might have TM infringement and i saw that other people thought that it might carry viruses/spyware. So yeah, my virus-detector found out that it does carry viruses. don't go to it...

I don't even know if it's possible, but I had an idea that I thought wat pretty cool.

You could make a taskbar, like the windows taskbar, where the PA logo is like the vista start-logo, and when you hit it, it opens up the menu. Now, This is the part I don't know if it's possible, but it you could minimize the applications running from the same drive as the PATaskbar, it could minimize those applications to that taskbar.
It could look like This.

I can't download apps or portableapps from sourceforge.net. the whole site isn't working for me. I have Firefox 3.0.3.

Can anyone help me?

Hewitje

This may be a silly question, but I appear to be able to use all the portable apps on a thumb drive (usb stick) just fine, but I recently got a little (lol, my first hard drive was a huge 10 mb) 60gb usb hard drive. I am especially not able to run Firefox from that drive. Most of the other apps work although I have not done an extensive test (I downloaded Suite Standard). Firefox seems to fail trying to write back to the drive and immediately shuts down. Is this something inherent in Firefox, something peculiar to Portable Apps or something strange on my end.

just wondering if there are any programs than can create a auto-run CD/DVD menu in PA.

I was thinking of creating something like the free computer magazine dvds have. i would prefer not to use a web browser for this but not against it.

Fire away

Just to help people and bring up the subject, and maybe to suggest that it should be written on the support pages for helping portable apps (at least Firefox) run faster, I suggest using a defragmenting program to defragment your thumb drive.

Hey John, do you have a high quality or a large version of the PortableApps Logo?

Can i use/launch the apps without an launcher?

i want to change the names of the apps from "app nameportable" to "app name"
i read this article but i can't figure it out
please help