General Discussion

Hi all,

I recently discovered this website, and got some real nice and handy apps running on my USB-stick.
I especially like the XAMPP module. Keep up the good work!

To business;
Since i'm a programmer myself, PHP/VB/Delphi, I want to contribute to portableapps.com.
At the moment I have a great idea for a portable application. After reading the "Development" area, still some questions arise.

1) How do I actually get my app up and running on your guys' site?

Hi Dudes,

I have ordered my third thumb drive. Every time I forget to unplug it from the PC at school and if I notice it that I forget it, it is already token by somebody.

Is there a way that I have to unplug it before I can log-off in Windows for example with a prompt or another application which tells me when I log-off on the PC that I mustn't forget the flash drive?

Okay guys I am not demented but it is easy to forget when your head is full of other stuff at school.

Best wishes,
Jordi

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I have been using the Portable Apps application for about two weeks now. All of the complaints I had about the original app have been resolved with version R21b. I highly recommend trying it. The one that comes with the suite is very limited and not nearly as usable as R21b.
I use my USB thumb drive (8gb) all day now! We are not allowed to install any software on our computers at work, now I don't need to! I have most of the apps you have available, and have been adding my own too.

New to the forum but have been a long-time reader. I have recently looked at the "What's on your portable#2?" thread and noticed a number of users who have a large number of portable apps on relatively small drives.

I was wondering, do most of you keep portable apps on a USB drive and documents? Or put all your apps on one drive and keep another one free for documents/data?

I'm asking because I have quite a few apps on my 1GB USB drive (600MB free) but was considering putting the apps on a 512MB USB drive I have and keeping the 1GB free for documents/data.

Is there an option, configuration file I can add, or something coming in a future release that will allow me to set a working directory for an application that wasn't installed using a paf.exe installer?

I have an application or two that run perfectly from portable devices, but I can't run them through PortableAppsMenu because it apparently runs the applications using the PortableAppsMenu as the working directory.

I am not really interested, nor do I have the time, to create an installer. I would just like to be able to assign a working directory to a menu item.

i think i did a good start.
my own type of compression file.
i have them set on my computer for my own exe files also.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w139/dbdii407/dbdfilesfor7zip.jpg

i would add the [IMG] tag but i dont want to get introuble
do u think i could add more to the icons?

I have had problems using my portable apps menu on a work network. It works normally at home and on other work networks.

The menu won't open, and says it is generating an error log. The platform is Windows 2000, and I previously used the same apps on this network without problems.

I suspect the network admin have changed a security setting or something ... and I'm asking for their help, but does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

I have been wondering: When I use one or more of the portable apps, does it/do they leave any files (dlls, whatever) on the host machine?

Thanks.

Is there a way to take a launcher or installer .exe and just take the files out of it. It would be useful just to see what files you would be putting on your computer and where. Also is there or can a portable version be made?