General Discussion

It is my first computer since discovering portable apps, I have many on a flash drive that I used because I did not have anything to install what I want onto.
I was looking for opinions whether I should now install all my favourite apps or just copy the portable apps folder onto my laptop and run them from there as if they are portable?
Which method would be better? I get the privacy from the portable format or the full install will give me full integration.

Does PortableApps already have an official web badge or "antipixel"? (I don't see one on the "press room" page).

I created one just for kicks and wondered if it would be okay to use it, say on my website for example?

I just uploaded an alternate version.

I'm just a bit curious.

If I have this right, alot of the PortableApps launchers when initiated, inserts things (settings and such) to the registry. Then when you close the program in question it then deletes those changes that it had made.

Doesn't this cause registry fragmentation? And since it's doing it every time these programs start up and close out, isn't it happening an awful lot? I thought registry fragmentation was bad, and, incidentally would be an undesirable change to the host system which the programs in question had been run on.

Is this not the case?

Hello,

I think File Management should be a standalone category in the application directory. This could then have File Compression & Packaging, File Managers, Others and Synchronisation (Australian English :p) as sub-directories.

This would also break up the Utilities listing as well.

What do you think?

Ok, I've done numerous google searches, and kinda learned it was a virus and malware and such, but I'm not sure what it does in terms of to a flash drive. One of my teachers had a virus like that and when I inserted my drive into her computer, I think I caught it from her. On my computer, I couldn't autorun my PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 4 because Sophos said 'autorun.inf' and 'winlog.exe' were viruses.

I never had a virus before, so I don't know what the extent of the virus does... whether it just stays hidden in the root directory or if it goes through all the directories.

What's happened?

There used to be new applications being posted all the time, but in the last month, hardly anything at all.

Is this website slowly being closed down?

Network World On Tuesday, Microsoft was awarded a U.S. patent for "portable applications." The description of this innovative technology? Running an executable file from a flash device.

Does this mean anything to PortableApps.com over here? It mentions “portable applications that can be executed from a portable memory device (such as a USB flash drive) without impacting the configuration of the computer,” but also “can run an application on an attached computer solely from the flash drive.”

the legacy link goes to the old firefox project instead of the thunderbird one.

Hi all,
I did make at posting at the ftm16 beta posting but maybe due to the age of the last posting there, I thought it might be a good idea to see if anyone could answer my question here.

Does anyone know if the ftm executable that is supposed to be available "is available" elsewhere.

would be very much appreciated if someone could throw some light on the subject...

ttfn

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