You are here

General Discussion

General discussions of portable apps and news.

Link to other Portable Apps in this forum???

Submitted by franz_post on June 20, 2007 - 5:08pm

Is there any legal issue or other concern to post in this forum a link to a freeware portable app (non GPL) developped elsewhere? And if no, which is the recommended forum to do it? "Other apps support"?

I think, this app is really valuable for many portable app users: it's a freeware dual-pane Windows file manager!

Franz

Applications "stopped working" on Vista when laptop put in sleep mode

Submitted by crowl on June 19, 2007 - 5:20pm

When I "upgraded" to Vista on my laptop this precipitated a lot of "Firefox has stopped working" and "Thunderbird has stopped working when I used these portable applications. Since I am heavily invested in portable apps, this was a BIG problem. I use an SD card on my laptop for the portable applications. After a lot of experimentation, I found that if I changed the drive option from "Quick removal" to "performance", the problem went away. I think the delay associated with writing the buffers for quick removal made Vista think the application had stopped.

Reduce HD Paging on MP3 Removable Storage Device?

Submitted by x999x on June 19, 2007 - 2:54pm

I've noticed that when using some applications like Miranda, my application window will pause as the system pages the HD on my mp3 player.

Are there any utilities or programs that disable HD's from sleeping?

I'm sure I won't have this problem with a solid-state solution, but what are my options as an HD user? I've read about Ram Disks, but how does that work?

Thanks in advance

Website Development --- sry not sure where to put this

Submitted by geoffgordon on June 19, 2007 - 12:55pm

Suggested Updates to sections of this site
1. add a link to your sourceforge site
2.a new section of this forum entitled "completed ready for release PortableApps" for when a file is ready but not included in the suite or added as an "official" supported app these files are past beta test and are ready for release.

Anybody else is welcome to add to this list.

Usage query

Submitted by Greensprout on June 19, 2007 - 10:34am

Hey all,

Great apps! This is my first post so please be nice Blum

I've just downloaded many of the apps which will be useful for me.
My question is if I use this on the machines at work will the apps leave any registry info etc behind, anything that will tell them what I've been doing?
Also if I use the Messengers will the people that monitor the internet usage know that I've been using it?

Thanks
Scott..

Install Location

Submitted by Pazy on June 17, 2007 - 1:27pm

Sorry if this is already answered, I had a look around but I couldent see anything.
Is it possible to install the portable apps menu/programs to, for example, K:\Portable Apps instead of the root of K:\? I want to use my USB Stick for a portable Linux OS (PCLinuxOS) and I know that needs to be in root so i can boot but its makes it harded to find the portable apps launcher.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Pages