General Discussion

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...

i cooked up a launcher which allows you to have a fixed drive letter
it uses a third party program called ReMount

get it from here
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip
create a folder named Data in the Launcher's Directory
place ReMount.exe in the Data Directory
and run the Launcher
which can be found here
http://rapidshare.com/files/97220106/ReMount.zip.html

this by default mounts the current drive letter to W:

the advantage of this method is that you only have one drive in My Computer

; insert regkeys to use separated by "||", comment out, when not used,
; e.g. HKCU\Software
!define REGKEYS ""
; If a file "Registry.reg" within the data directory is found then it is read
; and all child registry keys are processed as if they'd have been set within
; REGKEYS

I put the the registry in the data folder and it adds the registry but its not being deleted.then later in the script there is this to delete the registry
; Delete actual actual registry key (with portable content)
; --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm from a company interested in including portable 7zip in our IT training material. Our training material is distributed as printed books and one or more DVDs containing a compressed VMware image. I'd like to be able to include 7zip on the first disk to decompress the VMware image.

Are there any licensing considerations here? We're not interested in modifying the application in any way, merely saving the end-user a download.

Thanks!!!!!

Anyone who uses the Launcher and Installer to create their own versions or adaptions finds himself besides the usual adaption, entering similar information several times.

For example, both Launcher and Installer need AppName, PortableName, ExecutableName etc.

Suggestion:

Having an AppInfo.nsh that is included in both the Launcher and Setup that contains the AppName, AppVersion and AppShortName etc. Then this is being included into the launcher and setup, using one file. Less work to update or change and less chance of typos

I've been busy the past week and I'd just like to note what has happened and make a few generic comments. If I've missed anything you think I should know, let me know here.

Translation Team
I've noticed we now have an official beta testing team. As Patrick would say (while driving up in pimped out mini-van), w00t w00t!
Along these lines, I think we need an official translation team. (Hold your thoughts until I finish)

here is an interesting website that u can join for free and get 5gigs of storage and u can host files on there. i thought it might be interesting for people who need a website to host their beta apps. here it is http://www.esnips.com/ hope this helps anyone

Does anyone know if that is possible? Any links in emails that I read in PortableThunderbird I want to open into PortableFirefox, instead of the system default browser.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Is there an official portable apps template or do u have to "Edit" exsisting scripts? Cause it would be easier if there was a basic script to use, cause i have been using the Portable App template 2.5 in an attempt to make a portable app, but there are some parts of it that i dont get.

I was wondering if anyone has any of those tiny laptops that run on winxp, like QDO and thier ilk. Has anyone used the portable apps on them? I would presume that they work the same as it would on normal PCs. Screen size would seem to be my only concern.