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Foxit Reader Portable 7.3 contains HW32.Packed.5DEA

Submitted by tpf4 on March 1, 2016 - 3:45am

Hi,

I just downloaded the latest Foxit Reader Portable and scanned it on Virustotal.com. There's one virus detected as the shown below. Is it OK?

File name: FoxitReaderPortable_7.3.0.0118.paf.exe
Detection ratio: 1 / 55
Analysis date: 2016-03-01 08:34:49 UTC ( 5 minutes ago )

Antivirus Result Update
Bkav HW32.Packed.5DEA 20160229

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Help: my portable apps launcher died

Submitted by jojothehobo on February 29, 2016 - 1:41pm

Hi:
I was updating PortableApps this morning. The one updated app was the PortableApps platform (at around 4 MB). It downloaded, but wouldn't install. I got an error message that the update failed. No problem so far, that happens every once in a while. However, when I went to launch portable apps later this morning the platform didn't launch, either from the shortcut or the program itself.

I got an error message:
Cannot Open File

Marble

Submitted by Hubble49 on February 27, 2016 - 4:56am

Hi, there is no possibility to change language in Marble. All names of countries, citys, rivers and so on are displayed in english notation. The Marble manaual says, that under Help is an item to change the language. This item does'nt occure. Is there any idea to solve this problem?
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App that will do PC audits

Submitted by gwt10 on February 22, 2016 - 5:06pm

I'm looking for an app that will do PC audits including all the KB updates from Microsoft.

Right now when I go into "View Update History", all the KBs aren't sorted and it's hard to see what updates are installed on my machine. I'm looking for something that will sort these out better than what Windows offers

portableapps dot com Vs. "naturally portable"

Submitted by jeangab on February 19, 2016 - 6:58pm

Hi,

I had to find a title... Please let me explain what I meant by "naturally portable".
I have been using portable apps for a while and find it very handy. Most of the time, I download them from portableappsCom (thanks a lot). However, some apps can be downloaded directly from their own websites as a portable bundle, usually a zip file. One just unzip and runs the exe.
Examples : VirtualDub, FreeFileSync (installer provides a portable installation type), WinMerge.

Possible feature to add to PA Platform

Submitted by shadelegend333 on February 9, 2016 - 12:52pm

Hi there.

When the PA Platform Program tries to download all the apps you selected, it has each separate app as a separate download. Is it possible to have it queue them all as one large download and not stop to do each one individually? It takes a bit for the download speed to ramp up, so it won't ever get full speed on my connection before it moves on to the next app and starts from 0, making it not as fast as it could be. (I select a bunch of apps.)

(Also, on a side note: Why is there apps on the site that aren't listed in the PA Platform Program?)

suggestion (IMPORTANT)

Submitted by werty8763 on February 4, 2016 - 2:11am

I am currently making a new PA template (development page); the current one is not very good.....
I am going to make it more straightforward and easy so that newcomers like me can understand it more easily....
@ John T. Haller: If you want, I could upload the file here, and maybe you could update the template on the development page... Smile

difference between unicode and ansi?

Submitted by werty8763 on February 4, 2016 - 1:19am

I have a question; I am using a windows 7 computer; does it make any difference if I use NSIS Portable ANSI or NSIS Portable Unicode?
Currently I am using ANSI due to its smaller size..... Wink
But what is the difference between them?
Do I have to have both of them installed? (I don't think so, but I'm just making sure)
Is one of them better than the other?

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