General Discussion

Hi everyone,

I installed the large 124 MB portable apps suite on my hard drive because I just wanted to check it out. I meant to install it to a folder on my desktop but I installed it directly to my desktop by mistake. It seems to have installed an icon in my lower task-bar.

What shocked me is that the installation seems to have taken up a huge amount of hard drive space, like perhaps 80 GB or so. I have a 289 GB hard drive and now I have about 183 GB of free space. Before the installation, I think I had much more free space. I am using Windows XP media Center SP2.

Hi community,

I'd like to post an "easy question" to everyone with little experience with portable apps. However, I find it to be very relevant, and this information I cannot find to be explicitly stated here:

Regarding flexibility, can I move my portable apps folder (via explorer)? In what problems do I run if I simply move my apps from one folder to another on my HDD or from my HDD to a USB stick?

Thanks for clarifying!

I haven't had the need to use my thumb drive for quite awhile until recently. Now that I have a need for it I decided to break it out and update the software on it. That's where my problem starts.

First, I had this absolutely awesome theme for it that got wiped when I upgraded to the beta. It was a dark gray theme, jagged on the edges and had the Cheshire cat from the game Alice. Not the cartoon cat. This one is kinda goth with tattoos and earings and what not. Now that the theme is gone I cannot find it anywhere online and don't remember where I got it in the first place.

The office my wife works at uses dumb terminals. At least that's what she says. I know that a majority of the info on the individual pc's comes from the server but I'm not sure if there is anything actually installed on the client machines.

With that in mind, will Portable Apps run on a Windows based dumb terminal? Or will there have to be an OS installed on the pc itself?

*EDIT* Portable Apps would be running off of a thumb drive.

[Topic clarified by Mod Tim]

I want to make an EA game portable. The game in question is Battlefield 2. I purchased the game and down loaded the most current two patches. One patch allows the game to be played with out the CD. How would I install the game and then the patches? I have made one successful portable app., but that was straight forward as I only needed to install the game.

I would like to be able to use this game at work. I work nights and have down time.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Hi all,

I am hosting a vmware Win XP virtual machine on my Win XP laptop. The VM is mounting the host "My Documents" folder.

In the host My Documents folder I have a "My PortableApps" folder which is the normal root of the PortableApps folders.

I want to use the PortableApps menu system and some of the apps contained within it from my VM. However, if I try to run say FireFox Portable in my VM while it is already running in my host machine then I get an error (which is understandable).

Does the launcher do anything other than display a splash screen and open the app's exe? Just wondering if I can create a shortcut to the exe and use that instead, or if I'm missing any benefit. Thanks.

I am wonder who is behind that website ?

https://portableapps.com/

vs

[link to illegal software removed by mod JTH]

.... When I click upper this page on "Josh's mirrors", it show me
"wwjoshdew´s shared files" [link to illegal software removed by mod JTH]

.... That means user named "[mention of portableapps.com troll and spammer removed by mod JTH]" is behind that website. However, there is no contact page or any way how to tell sth to its author.

Finally caving to pressure from the players, the makers of Furcadia have listed instructions for making the game portable.

http://www.furcadia.com/download/localdir.html

I have yet to try the process myself so I can't, at this time, account for it's efficacy.

Finally I managed to change my USB sticks to have a partition that is seen as a CDROM drive on Windows. With the tools from the chipset manufacturer i can copy any ISO to the emulate partition of the USB. I wonder if there is any way to configure the PortableApps like the U3 software. That is, put the core software in the partition of the CD, and install other applications on the normal partition.

Thanls