General Discussion

I think the ability to use relative paths instead of absolute paths should be a requirement.

For example, in winamp I can set my media library directories to relative paths so that it can pick up and track media on and added to my portable hard drive. As another example, foobar is primarily portable, but its media library only allows use of absolute paths.

Hi John,

is it possible to change the sorting of the postings within a thread? It is a little bit hard to find and read new postings in a "hot-thread".

eg. (1.) = first posting; (2.) = second posting and so on:
this is the actual posting sorting settings:
(1.)
..(6.)
..(3.)
....(8.)
....(5.)
......(7.)
..(2.)
....(4.)


I think this would be much better readable - especially when people don't "reply" but "add a new comment" when answering to an other posting:
(1.)
..(2.)
....(4.)
..(3.)
....(5.)
......(7.)
....(8.)
..(6.)


Maybe it is possible to include individual view settings or change the (general) view settings if other people have a hard time to follow discussion in an 20+ postings thread, too Thanks in advance.

Why I use portable applications on my HD:

They are permanent and stable. Indeed If I reinstall windows xp, All my program will be ready to use, I will not have to lose time to reinstall all my favorites applications. Since the settins are stored to a local directory, I never have to reconfigure preferences and options. Indeed xml or ini configuration are remanent.

They are small and effecient. I can install them on my other HD. My c: drive including windows and program files is only taking 550 meg of space. This allow my pc to have extreme perfomance. Portable application are the tweaker companions, because they allow you to futher speed up your pc.

Does anyone know if it is possible to configure a flash drive, or any usb device, as a non-removable drive? I would like to enable autorun on my flash drive, and so far, I have not been able to find solid information about it.

Consider making a portable FireFox button like those on the FireFox affiliates homepage? http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage People could copy the html and easily link to your site. After looking at one of these blank buttons I imagined one that looked a little more like a usb stick that said Portable FireFox on it - Just a thought. By the way - you need a "this site is best viewed in FireFox 1.5" disclaimer.

UPDATE: It's now been released:
https://portableapps.com/portablegaim

I'd like a few folks to test out the new Beta 2 release of Portable Gaim before I set it live and announce it. You can grab it here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portablegaim/portable_gaim_1.5_beta2_...

You probably already considered it but...
Why not drop the website address of this new/great site in the splash screen for PFF?
PFF has a way of making its way around the net such that not everyone will have downloaded it from here/sourceforge. Seems like a good way to further get the name out.

Todd

I use KeePass at home and away for password security, combine that with TrueCrypt and you have very few worries for data exposure.

Is this site covering already portable (non-installing) apps, or just portable-ified versions of other apps?

Whichever, even if it's not listed here, I'd recommend KP for the forgetful and the paranoid...

cde

Call it lazy or what ever, but is there a way I could short cut the apps to the root directory of my USB drive so that no matter what drive letter the drive is named as the shortcut will still be valid? Right now for FireFox I have the short cut as E:/.../.../PortableFireFox.exe, but if I go to another computer with a differe number of drives, it could be named F: or G: and then I have to click 3 more times to get to it; I supose it's more of a 'can it be done' because the few extra clicks aren't realy a bother.

Due to the immense popularity of this thread, it is continued on What's on your portable? #2

On a 512MB USB drive I have...
7-Zip - File Compression
Emptemp2 - Temp Files Cleaner
Tweakui - Windows Settings Tweaker
100Zipper - File Compression
dscrypt - File encryption
dsdel - secure deletion
eprompter - email notifier
Foxit Reader - PDF reader
Fusion - Media player
gimp-2.2 - graphics editor
Irfanview - image viewer/browser
IEPrivacyKeeper - Internet Tracks cleaner
Kpad - Word Processor
Portable Firefox - Web Browser