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Happy Thanksgiving!

Most software titles have Suggested and/or Minimum Hardware Requirements.

I was wondering if we should do the same for portable apps. Kinda like a suggested Read/Write speed the flash drive that it would be running on. It would probably take awhile to finish, but I think it would be worth it.
John's busy enough as it is, but if he approves of this idea, maybe we could round up some volunteers to test-run the apps.

What do you think?

The PAM launchers are useful to start a certain app from your USB stick and I was thinking to add a small bit from the PAM installers, namely the detection of the Portable Apps USB stick. Remember how the installer of Portable Apps always finds the path to the portable apps?

This way the launcher could be copied to the desktop and be used as a 'shortcut' for the application on the USB drive. I think this might be useful in some occasions to use the launcher as an shortcut as well.

hi i have just installed portableapps on my mp3stick and i wonderd if there is any why that the lunchpad opensup automatikly when the stick is installed to a computer, without pressing any buttons??? the reason is, i live in germany and iwork in many different places und sit in different internet cafés. i offen then miss loads of progs like icq or skype. i can´t get to the direktory of my stick couse in some shops these levels are banned for the guest users!!!

is there a way to autostart the application???? please help

ps: sorry for any incorrect spelling *grin

The "What's New" section on the front page isn't updating. I know Firefox portable 2009 is out, but it still says 2008.

I do know that portable apps does not run on a mac!
That being said when I did plug my thumb drive in my mac for copying some files into the music folder under documents (I keep music on my mac) I was upset when I could not copy it in. The folder for documents and all the folders within were locked.

Normally you can unlock a folder or file fairly simply by un-checking a checkbox, this would not work for this. These folders I found were locked in a way that only that they are only system immutable. So to get rid of it I had to boot up into single user mode and fix it using command line.

Hi,

Has anyone have any experience in running Adobe AIR application from portable device?
If you do, how do you install the AIR run-time on it?

Thank you very much.

I am currently about packing software and wanted to make a bridge between the needs of a installed version and a portable version. Just wanted to deploy a single package. An installer where you can chose

a) install:
- desktop short cut (if selected, selected by default)
- start menu entry (if selected, selected by default)
- quick launch icon (if selected)
- register in windows software remove menu
- autostart (if selected, selected by default)
- all data goes to $appdata (documents and settings folder)

b) portable:
- just unpack, no install

I just tried adding "Cave Chaos 2.exe" in a folder directly under PortableApps. It runs fine when I launch it from Windows Explorer, but when I launch it from the PortableApps menu, it gives a "memory access violation".

I suspect that this memory problem occurs for a host of other programs as well (when launched from PAM), assuming that Cave Chaos 2 is just an ordinary memory hog.

See: http://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/Cave-Chaos-2.shtml

I wonder if it's possible to make a web-based version of the suite. Hey, you can't carry your drive everywhere, can you?
Yes, I searched the topic