General Discussion

Hello,

I just recently installed OpenTTD, and I discovered that I couldn't play it because Windows Defender believes that it has the Torjan Win32.Varpes.N!cl on it.

Image uploaded here: http://imgur.com/gallery/Z9SQTl1/

I'm not sure what to do about it; I don't believe that PortableApps would ship Malware, but reinstalling it gives the same problem.

So, is it Malware, or is my antivirus being sensitive?

Hi,

Was just doing an a long overdue update of my PortableApps library, and the Launcher Updater is refusing to update Geany Portable. From the 404 message, it appears to be looking for the wrong filename/URL - there is no .paf.exe in the filename that the update is using, just .exe, whereas the sourceforge copy does end .paf.exe

You can see a screenshot of the error message here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/0x44sblnfp99z7e/Screenshot%202016-05-26%2011.2...

I choose download but never get the install screen. Have tried numerous times. What might be the reason.

Have installed previous on flash drives with no problem. Want to do a new, clean install.

Thanks.

Dell Vostro. Windows 7 Pro.

Error downloading UNetbootin Portable, with updater or direct download (https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/unetbootin-portable)

The PortableApps Platform gives an error when trying to download/update WinBoard.

I can't figure out how to apply the themes I make using PAM Builder to the PortableApps drive menu. It appears to me that you cannot apply themes other than the ones listed in the "options" tab. This is very frustrating because this app looks very promising once I know how to use it. Now I do like some of the themes the drive menu comes with, however there is a limited amount and I would really like to personalize my drive menu (like you can personalize Windows) but I can't find a way to apply the themes I make. Am I the only one who is frustrated with this

Portable Teamviewer's latest update requires exiting the Teamviewer prior to installing the update, This is not a problem if you are doing a local update. An update on a remote computer is a different situation.

You can't update while Teamviewer is running but you need it for remote access. Google's Chrome browser has an app-for-that.

Note that a CRITICAL security flaw has been discovered in 7-Zip.

All apps that use 7-Zip libraries can also be affected by this severe vulnerability.

This likely includes quite a few of the Portable Apps offered on this site, and may include the Portable Apps Platform itself.

The 7-Zip team has released a new version of their tool that (hopefully) patches the vulnerability, but every app that uses the vulnerable libraries also needs to be updated with patched versions of the libraries... otherwise they will still be vulnerable to this issue.

I'm familiar with the concept of portable applications, and I use the portable version of many of the applications that I use on a daily basis. But they don't need any special "platform" to run them - you just unzip them, and the configuration information is kept in a file instead of in the Windows registry. You can put the whole thing on a USB drive if desired, or wherever you want. So what exactly is the purpose of this PortableApps "platform"? What does it do? Why should I install it?

Thanks,

Rebeccah

How can I clone my USB thumb drive?
I have portable app installed with quite a few applications and I would like to replace my old USB 2.0 stick
with a new usb 3.0 one. However I don't want to re-install everything from the beginning and I also want to keep the setting of my applications.
Many thanks
Nic