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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Does QEMU GUI makes any difference?

Submitted by darkgame on February 19, 2011 - 3:36am

I wanted to bring my online games along with my thumbdrive, like MapleStory. I know they cannot be portablized due to admin power so I've found QEMU Manager, a GUI for QEMU.
The installation of a stripped down windows xp (microxp, yes, i know its illegail but many users use it) took about 30minutes in QEMU Manager while a real computer takes 5minutes.
It is still laggy when i download firefox, like the whole computer is dying. (KQEMU is not activated)

Dead/Outdated Software Available on Applications Page

Submitted by acocaracha on February 18, 2011 - 2:05pm

I was noticing some bad behavior with the WinWget program available from the main applications page (https://portableapps.com/apps). After looking at the sourceforge website, it was immediately obvious that no one has been developing the software for the past 5 years. One of the bugs was the same problem I was having and it has been open for a year and a half.

Reg file/s compare & and output diff

Submitted by morphonius821 on February 16, 2011 - 7:37pm

HI,
Just wondering if anyone knows of a freeware registry editor and app that can:
(other than editing .reg files also:
compare 2 .reg files with options to:
Select the differences in either file and output a selection to a new .reg file.
(I.e in such a way that these differences could be then easily inserted into the system registry by way of this new .reg file)

P.S i have just browsed the web and installed about 10 reg apps and the ones that look promising are either too complicated, don't install or require you to purchase them.

Wondering about SpyDLLRemover

Submitted by carterrk on February 16, 2011 - 5:24am

I saw SpyDLLRemover on the list of apps, and wanted to find out more about it. Went to the https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/spydllremover_portable page, then tried the "Learn more about SpyDLLRemover" link, which gave me a 404 error.

Followed the "Publisher" link to http://rootkitanalytics.com/ and found this on their homepage:

"StreamArmor and SpyDLLRemover are NOT associated with RootkitAnalytics by any means. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we had to let go of the corresponding volunteer and remove all his contributions."

Auto-update or not? What is the current status?

Submitted by Veazer on February 15, 2011 - 5:24am

Long ago I remember seeing posts recommending against auto-updating portableapps and specified that they should be only updated using the portableapp installers. If allowed to auto-update, the apps supposedly began to leave some files in the local profile. Obvsiously this doesn't apply to ALL apps.

What is the current consensus for this? Do we let them update themselves or turn it off and do it manually?

Funds raising Idea? USB STICKS?

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Submitted by vs50d1969 on February 14, 2011 - 3:40pm

This is just an idea .....but as a fund raising idea what about getting USB sticks
from a major manufacture.... No junk...good quality 4-8-16? gig sticks and installing the platform, and maybe having a folder with all the currant apps in it.
If the sticks could be custom made...even maybe to look like the icon that would be cool also.
I would pay a premium price for this knowing that the extra money would go to R&D for PortableApps.com.

Just my idea to help.

Keep up the great work... PortableApps.co RULES !!!

Thank you for your time.

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