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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Another look at File Associations for PA

Submitted by rck9xb3mea on November 10, 2023 - 12:06pm

I was looking for a way to associate portable apps with file types in Windows, both to make the portable app the default program to open that file type and add the portable app as an option in the right-click "Open With..." context menu.

I found several previous discussions saying doing so will "break portability" because it would leave traces behind after the app is closed. However, Portable Apps already can add shortcuts and automatically launch apps on startup, which must also leave behind traces.

Latest Releases & News on homepage

Submitted by Emka on November 3, 2023 - 7:12am

It's been like this for a few days already:
In the bottom left corner of the homepage, the lists "App Releases & News" and "Just New Apps" under the headline Latest Releases & News are no longer lists but just links.
I don't know if this was changed on purpose, if it's a site bug or if it's my browser's (or an add-on's) fault. In any case, I find it more complicated now to look for updates since I don't use the platform launcher.

Which of the 14 download buttons, is the real download buttons ?

Submitted by shodanx on October 20, 2023 - 4:55pm

Hello,

I wanted to download 7-zip
7-zip does not offer a portable version in zip

So I searched for 7-zip 23.01 portable and found

https://portableapps.com/news/2023-06-27--7-zip-portable-23.01-released

I went to that page but there are 14 download buttons.

Are they all the same thing.

I think I will go to the first one and run whatever executable it downloads

Can't unpin Apps

Submitted by dlfisher on October 20, 2023 - 3:52pm

Sorry if posting this in the wrong place - do not see a Bug Report forum
When you pin an app to the Taskbar (via right click on any app/context menu), the app is pished to front page, but there does not seem to be an option to unpin the app (other than removing and re-installing). Once Pin'd, the option to Pin is greyed out int he context menu. Needs to be a checked option that you can uncheck.
I am on Win11 (or Win10) platform running current version, and this has been true for years, so applies to many builds.

What is SVM File and what to do with it?

Submitted by alex1908 on October 18, 2023 - 9:27am

Hello everyone,

i have an important app for me, which comes as SVM file and it supposed to be portable app file. Since I am pretty new in this portable app world. I have no clue! Can anyone help me what to do with this file? I already sucessfully installed PortableApp on my Mac M1 but couldn't figure it out how to operate this file.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

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