General Discussion

THIS UPDATE IS OUTDATED. THE CURRENT ONE IS HERE:
https://portableapps.com/node/12853

Welcome all to another PortableApps.com Update. It's late in the week again (sorry about that), so it's a mix of summary and what's coming. And I ran out of punch and pie. But there's a drinking fountain in the back somewhere. And a guy with a water gun filled with seltzer for some reason. Anyway, here we go...

Updating Current Portable Apps (Re-Completed)

I think probably more than anything else in the PAF spec version numbers need to be clarified. Many of the Development Tests being posted have it wrong (or are being labeled as such by others), and even in some releases it is unclear whether they all follow the same logic. I'm going to attempt to list them all and relate them as I understand them, and list questions I have and hopefully we can get things nailed down by someone more in the know and have a clear reference to go by. Throughout this post I use GIMP Portable 2.4.4 Revision 2 as the example.

• PAF Format Version

We're in need of a volunteer to help track development test releases on a daily basis. Basically, you'll be responsible for monitoring the beta forum and then updating the Development Test page within the development section to ensure all listed apps are up to date. The ideal candidate has:

• HTML skills as you'll be required to manually update the tables in the above page
• been a member for at least a few months and has been active in the forums
• not already handling a couple other things here at the site

I figured that, for those who do not feel like manually disabling thumbnail caching on every computer they use, this, if set to autorun, might be of assistance.

Modified from www.gravityfx.org (They released it under the GPL)

@ECHO OFF
ECHO.
ECHO Press any key to delete all Thumbs.db files
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO.
pause
DEL /F /S /Q /A:H Thumbs.db

I hope people find this helpful.

With a little work, I found a solution to a problem I was getting ready to pose as a question here. I thought I should share with others how I got this to work. It was actually more simple than some of the solutions I had previously read.

Well, almost perfect...

I'm using some applications that make my Portable Experience more streamlined. Some applications that are not necessarily are needed for PAM but make it more useful. Most if not all have been discussed in this forum and can be found here. Although it makes me wish I could have them more integrated into the PAM itself...

The user plugs in the Portable drive...

- Memory scanner: The first thing that happens is a scan of the memory for viruses. Set to scan only once a day or so.

Hey all,

Recently I have been taking a look at the PortableApps.com Wikipedia pages and starting to clean them up a bit. However I have run out of time recently and more still needs to be done to keep them decent, here's a list of stuff that I think needs to be done and I would be much obliged if someone (or many people) could sort some of them out.

1. Cleanup of the lists on the PortableApps.com page.
2. Rewriting some of the sections on that page to make sure that they are from a neutral pov.

I have searched the forums but did not find anything on this. I use A-Suite and have it set to start up a bunch of programs (mostly desktop enhancements) but they are all minimized to the system tray. I was wondering if any one knows of a app that can be used portably to hide these icons.

I have lately been reading and trying a bunch of different menus such as A-Suite, geek.menu and modifications on PAM (Portable Apps Menu). I find good things with all of these menus, but still have not seemed to find the perfect menu that fits ALL my needs. I was wondering what other people think are the most important features of "The Perfect Menu." I am interested in what other people like for functionality and imagine this kind of information would be useful for developers as well.

I will start with things that I think are most important:

Sounds like it will be a while before this becomes ubiquitous, but interesting to see Microsoft addressing users' desire to go portable.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080304-microsoft-could-soon-let-w...