General Discussion

I have an extremely old home computer running Windows XP and I only have 15 gigabytes of hard drive space and no matter what I do, I can't free up any more space that 150 megabytes. I've tried powerful uninstallers, antiviruses and even whole PC care suites but those did little to free up my hard drive. And now my only option is wiping the hard drive. I got my PC used so I have nothing except the PC itself, no documentation or CDs. I need to erase everything on my hard drive except for Windows, preferably to factory default. Are there any FREE Windows utilities that can do this?

Example: I've got rid of most of IE locally.

Results: Fine.

Odd consequence: .chm files don't show images.

Solution: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/kchmviewer-portable

Simples, as a mongoose would say.

OK...I've got XBMC running totally portable
from a USB stick...I can execute it from a
.bat or .cmd file using the xbmc -p portable switch
and all my adddons/setup have been transferred from
the hidden folder users\userfolder\AppData\Roaming\XBMC...
Everything works great...But I'll be d*mned if I can
get it to run from the PortableApps menu...I tried
converting the .bat file to an .exe file using several
utilities but it comes up with a not recognized internal
or external command when running it (Doesn't do that when running from

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Hi there,
I would be very much pleased if you could bring out a detailed tutorial if possible a video for AppCompactor.I have tried many of my portable apps in compacting and it dismally failed while trying to run the compressed portable app.
Cheers,
Shiv Shankar Krishnamurthi

On the left side of the website there is a language selector and the flag icons are covering the text above it. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but it might just be an issue with my browser. I am using Opera Portable. Thank you!

Please tell me how to remove all of my installed portable applications. I am so frustrated trying to remove them and i can't! Thank You, heaven5733@hotmail.com

I have a strange problem. I run a lot of portable apps on my work laptop which I do not have admin rights on. Portables have worked fine this way for years.

Today I came in and there were some issues with the local network and I reset my Windows password, and now many of the portable apps will not start, giving me the following error:

NSIS Error

Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid.

The temp folder is fine. I can write to it and many programs work fine and read/write from it. However a few do not.

I recently installed PortableApps on my 32GB USB3 Integral flashdrive and found that it renamed the drive to 'PortableApps.com' and the 'Rename' button in windows explorer wasn't working with it.
Is there any way to stop it doing this?

Xenon seems to be [an] interesting [one man project by John?]; unfortunately it seems to be abandoned. Basic Tab keyboard shortcut does not work at least. I like it being minimalistic.

I very much would like to ditch Total Commander for good, tried all the 3 browsers I could find in the list (not the 2-panel ones; I want to ditch the 2-panel style as well) still, I guess these may need a lot (and I mean A LOT) of customization just to be as functional as total commander in its basic form. Sad, as I'd very much like to ditch it, with it's 2 panels...

So, your favs?