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Using another browser; how can I stop IE from opening?

Submitted by videobruce on May 9, 2014 - 5:58pm

One serious and extremely annoying problem is when you install and/or uninstall a program, the software takes you to their website via IE. Since your 3rd party browser (Opera in my case) isn't registered with the O/S, Idiot Exploiter keeps opening up which I don't use.

Checking having Opera check to see if it is the default bowser doesn't do anything.

LBreakout2 Problem

Submitted by Chim on May 8, 2014 - 11:33am

I hadn't used LBreakout2 in ages. The last time I used it, I think it might have even been another version.

Nevertheless, now that I decided to use it, it's coming up in s small window instead of in FULL screen. And the button at the upper right of the window that would allow me to maximize the window is not active.

Any idea what's going on? How do I maximize the window? Or what am I doing wrong? I so easily played it before on FULL screen without a problem.

Or is it a problem with this version?
My version is 2.6.3.

Cloud Portable

Submitted by Brunshin on May 8, 2014 - 10:42am

Hi people of portableapps, I would like to know if there is another great portable application such as dropboxahk? I only want to keep my work safe in the cloud and my pendrive, I can change to other server in case need.

have my own collection of portable apps, need a way of getting updates using FTP or something cloud - ideas?

Submitted by xbibleyosef on May 8, 2014 - 9:39am

Hi,

my product has Christian software for people in countries where spreading the gospel might be illegal or dangerous.

I have lists of streaming radio stations, sometimes the IPs of these change or stop working.

I wrote a script to get updates using FTP using DOS but its clunky and difficult to manage. One of the free FTP accounts got terminated for being not used enough, (seems couple of times a month wasnt enough!)

URGENT: checkboxes per category in download manager

Submitted by pauserSTOPSTEAL... on May 8, 2014 - 6:02am

please, pLEAse, ( swear words come to mind )

please do this 5 second coding job!
put a check box beside each category to check all of that category.

( i'd ask for a ctrl range selection like in win explorer too but far out. at least do the above one.

have you tried to check all boxes beside games?
you still need to manually uncheck 50 something boxes.

.......................
thanks for your time.

Liliputing: Unhappy with Chrome and Firefox? Here are some alternate web browsers

Submitted by trust on May 6, 2014 - 6:30pm

(To better continue from here: https://portableapps.com/node/39306)

Link to article:
http://liliputing.com/2014/05/unhappy-chrome-firefox-alternate-web-brows...

Mission: I'd really like to have the option to run quite a few browsers or profiles at the same time.

I keep Chrome only as a secondary browser because it comes with Flash. I uninstalled the universal Flash plugin from my system and what it to keep it that way.

Question: what might be some interesting browsers for you from the above article (or in general) or for me to do the trick?

Pale Moon? Check

automatically running batch file as administrator

Submitted by xbibleyosef on May 3, 2014 - 11:36am

hello there,

I'm rolling together my own Portable Apps distro aimed at people interested in Christianity who live in a country where that might be illegal. My product is encrypted, so the purpose of the device is ambiguous without the password.

I discovered running a browser on a USB drive really sucks as the disk performance for shuffling temp file is poor. So I hit on an idea, I managed to make a RAM disk to run a portable version of Chrome on.

When clicking on the menu to run the batch file script, it won't work as it need Administration rights.

The batch file does this:-

Portable App which does not need to write to registry

Submitted by spakkaps on May 3, 2014 - 2:13am

Hi all,

Im sure this has been covered but could not find it in the discussions.

I have a new job which I would like to do modications to images such as cropping, etc as part of my sumbission briefs, At home I use Photoshop but they dont have this at work.

I would like to use Freeware Gimp or a portable version of Photoshop which I have, but the problem comes in with the work computer.

As a Domain user I have no rights to write to the registry, and therefore no portable apps I have tried will run on the work PC.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this

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