General Discussion

To quote from an official page of the site: "A portable app doesn't leave registry entries behind except those automatically generated by Windows".

But this isn't true of everything available here, for instance Skype and the utilities from Sysinternals (Microsoft), and possibly others. And Skype, even in the portable version, still puts things in the user's profile on the system partition.

Just noting this. These items are still much lighter weight than their non-portable variants.

djc

I was being tempted to buy a shiny USB3 device on this site and then I remembered that I had promised myself not to use devices that didn't allow me to write-protect the contents if I had to use them in someone else's PC...

I did a search (I tried "Write lock") but most discussion dated back to 2007 and were quite short anyway. Two questions:

1. Does anyone know of an "ordinary" USB drive that has the write protect feature that I have with an SD card in a USB "convertor"

hi peeps
i was wondering if anyone knew if there is such a program that looks for grammar error inside a folder tree. like a program that checks all the files inside a folder and subfolders.

Hi John,

I've downloaded Opera Portable, navigate Other\Source folder but I cannot found source code of Opera Portable Launcher, can you provide me your Opera Source code, I really need it, I want to know some of your technique to make Opera Portable.

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/opera_portable

Many thank!
Best regards,

Is there a way to have a listing of the dates application were auto-updated.

I just had about 5 or 6 apps updated...and I did not note which ones...so I don't know which ones to copy from my usb stick to my hard drive.

Also, is there a way to let a list of apps installed on the usb stick should it die and I want to reconstruct it?

thanks

Yesterday I reinstalled my Windows. After that I found all the splash screens of the portable apps went black. Normally before I reinstall my Windows, the splash screen can show up, but now, only a black rectangle.
Is there something missing in my computer system? Why this occurs? Thanks for any help.

Here is the screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/d0En1mU.png

Can anyone recommend a way for me to sync all my Apps with my multitude of devices? Specifically, a corporate PC that blocks Dropbox and Google Drive and sync it with two more home PC's that I have? Should I sync via USB or cloud? Any advice would be appreciated...Thanks.

If i use Foxit Reader portable to open pdf document after closing the document foxitreader.exe and foxitreaderportable.exe do not exit. They are still in the task manager and consuming RAM. Is that a bug?

I am using Windows XP.

First off I just wish to say howdy to yal, and thank you for your works. Found yal looking for a way to sort / categorize the apps I have... and in the process found some apps to replace the ones I have beings they fit my tastes and or are smaller in size.

So here we go. No I do not have any apps on a usb stick, flash drive. I am running them on my laptop that is being treated like a desktop.

Hello Everybody,

Does anyone know an alternative for applications that require net framework or exists an alternative ".NET 4" application?

For example:

I want to start a self-made portable app (made via cameyo online packer) which need Net Framework 4. I cant install .NET because i have no admin rights. Without NET4 my application doesn't start.