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Select SourceForge Mirror for Downloading

Submitted by Drazick on December 14, 2016 - 6:09am

Hello,

I have some access issues to some of SourceForge mirrors.
It turned out that the default one is blocked on my network.

My question / suggestion is, can one make the PoartableApps manager to download using specific mirrors?
As things now I can't update (At least not automatically) my programs.

Thank You.

Running Portable Apps without the Launcher UI

Submitted by PortableGood on December 10, 2016 - 5:49am

The following works great: Running the Portable Apps launcher, and then selecting a specific portable app to run.

I'm wondering if it is equally as easy to run Portable Apps without the launcher UI.

Here are my questions:

1. Is it possible to run a Portable App (and keep it portable) without having the Portable Apps launcher UI running? For example, to run portable app ABC, can you just run ABCPortable.exe (where "ABCPortable.exe" is any of the Portable Apps available through the PortableApps launcher)?

Default apps

Submitted by berserk on December 6, 2016 - 11:19am

Hello everyone.
I have an idea, don't know if is it possible (but I guess so).
The idea is: as you launch portableapps.com platform from your drive, sset file association and default programs, then as you exit everything should be turned back to OS defaults.
Please, let me know if will this be added.

Bye, Ivano.

Language not saved

Submitted by jasee on November 30, 2016 - 9:03pm

Although the language is set to English or British English in the options menu, the language of many applications eg VLC anf Filezilla and Ultratorrent is still displayed in the operating system language, as this Japanese,this makes it extremely difficult to change anything! And is one of my prime reasons for using the postableapps base. In fact, if the language of VLC is changed to English, the application language of the original install of VLC changes as well!

ESET Reporting Virus False Positives

Submitted by gfinzer on November 22, 2016 - 9:20pm

All,

ESET NOD32 AntiVirus is reporting false positives for the PAF.exe files. I have submitted a support ticket with them:

There are several virus false positives being reported for Portable App Distributions. Most notably McAfee Stinger Portable and Kaspersky TDS Killer are detected as having a trojan.

https://portableapps.com/apps/security/mcafee-stinger-portable

Gord Caswell promoted to Website Administrators, congrats and thanks!

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Submitted by John T. Haller on November 18, 2016 - 5:02pm

Hi All,

I wanted to share that Gord Caswell has agreed to assist us on the Website Administrators team in addition to his duties as an app packager and forum moderator. Please join me in congratulating him in his new role and thanking him for his already-invaluable years of service! Smile

Best,
John

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