General Discussion

Sorry if posted before but I couldn't find anywhere in the forums or with the search.

I've been using Portable Apps for a while and now have just gotten an Acer Aspire One NETBOOK. I've been playing around and have managed ti hide the XP Start menu and button and have created a taskbar with the Portable Apps Menu for a start. Now comes the question for the hardcore developers.

Has anyone been able to successfully replace the Windows XP start menu and button with the Portable Apps Menu? If so what steps to take to integrate it correctly or can someone point me in the right direction?

hi wanted to know how that could add more icons on the up
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thanks

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Hi
I'm making a program portable for my use, but i'm stuck with 2 folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data

These folders don't have a variable, the maximum that I could do is use %ALLUSERSPROFILE% and %USERPROFILE% but it wont work since "Application Data" and "Local Settings" changes its name in localized Windows versions.

Anyone may help me?

I have a drive made by Kensington and instead of showing the "label=" name in explorer it still show KENSINGTON. How can I override this? I am using XP Pro

Paul

Ok, so the google search at http://start.portableapps.com/ gives John a little money to support this site.

Would it not be possible to create a "widget" that lets us put the http://start.portableapps.com/ search onto other web pages?

I have been using portable apps at the office for the past few weeks. I'm dreading the day the IT department, for some reason, finds out and asks about it. I'm dreading that day because I really don't know how secure using portable apps is.

My question is how safe are these apps? I really only use Firefox, Chrome and Texter since Head Office has only and will only install IE. What should I tell IT when they ask about it?

I really don't want to have to stop using these wonderful tools.

Thanks.

  John, I think I'm representing the community here when I say this. Please stop posting release dates when you never can fulfill them. Personally, I'd rather have a surprise when something comes out, than to keep being bombarded with "It's coming out this week", "In a few days", etc. Just say, It'll be done when it's done!
  Thank you.

P.S. Very sorry about being harsh, I didn't really reread it before posting. Here I'll put in that I'm really very grateful for the quality work you put out here. Thanks so much!

Sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find the info...

Is it possible in any way to start one or more applications automatically when I manually run StartPortableApps.exe? Either using PortableApps or some other tool...

Thanks in advance?

./kroogar

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4173/neko.html

FYI "Neko" Means cat in Japanese.
The link above me is the latest version and you can download the source to it. But it doesn't work on Windows XP.
The Neko Follows your mouse or you can change it to run away from it or just make it wonder around randomly
I'm going to try to modify the source but I want to make it work with XP/ Vista so we can have a cute kitty follow our mouse.
If anyone wants to help just pitch in. I'm no good as this is my first try modifying the source.
This is a standalone app too.

Hello,

I am now trying to make an app called Ekiga portable. It works quite well now but not yet finished.

This program uses Gtk-Libraries. Pidgin, Gimp and other portable Apps use Gtk-Libraries v.2 too.

So wouldnt it be faster and saving hdd-space to install this gtk libs only one time for all progs?