General Discussion

I recently pulled out the install CD for SimCity Classic to see if it might be portable (or portable-ized) and was gratified to see that it does seem to be.

The Windows version appears to just be a re-dressed version of the original DOS program with some additional sounds added, so no registry entries are created of course.

It's not the latest-greatest version of this great game, but I think I spent all of ten dollars on it a couple of years ago. It's gotta be cheap if not free, if it's still available out there at all.

Dear all,

I am wondering, if it is a good idea or not to put the portable versions of programs like OOo, T-bird, Firefox or others directly on the hard disk of different computers and use them instead of the install-versions.

Together with a stick (where all these program would also reside) this would make synching them all between different machines much easier than with installed versions, since they could all be in the same path together with settings, user files and everything, unlike the installed version.

I have just downloaded the latest build of Foxit2 - build 1414 zip version. It would seem that this version is portable - but i'm not technical enough to be sure and was wondering if someone would like to comment.

Thought this was worth posting as a number of members are interested in a portable PDF but previous versions were not totally portable.

I just downloaded the latest version and installed in to my USB drive but there are no EXE files, no launcher - PortableAppsMenu.exe ... am I missing something?

For some reason every time I open Portable Apps, it displays as this :
http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i291435_PApps.jpg

If I could get any input as to why it displaying this way, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Ive been really into portable apps for a few years...

And, being the true geek that i am... i'm always searching for a smaller, niftier USB flash drive to hold them all in.

Now. Ive recently noticed the sony microvault tiny...
Looks good. looks small.. but sony have done something to it to enable it to compress or encrypt data and allow it to store 3 times as much..

Will this affect portable apps? and if so, how??

any ideas would be very much appreciated

Many thanks
John

Is it possible to use Ceedo's Argo to install an app, and then run it from PortableApps Start Menu, but yet still accomplish true portability? Maybe a PortableApps.com version of ceedo is next!!!!!

I just installed the base version of PortableApps and placed my pre-existing apps (PortableFirefox, Thunderbird, etc)in folders next to the menu folder as explained in the instructions. When I refreshed the menu, the apps show up in the menu and they run fine but the menu only has generic system .exe system icons, every app has the same one! The right-side folder icons for documents etc are fine.

Any suggestions?

I noticed when I updated Firefox that it changed the name in PAM to Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition and I noticed the same name change for Sunbird but not for Thunderbird. The two questions I have is why the name change for the two first apps and not the third? and if I just update firefox directly and not download it from the website am I missing out on anything??

Just courious..............

on main page stands 'Audacity Portable 0.2.6 Rv 2', while its 'Audacity Portable 1.2.6 Rv 2'. just a small thing.

keep up the great work.