General Discussion

First we had the PortableApps Menu, then the PortableApps.com Platform... I think we should replace both with a PortableApps "Hub". This is a collection of my ideas but borrows heavily from suggestions I've heard as well and is my attempt to represent both what people want and would be better for many people.

The hub would replace the menu (and look mostly like it), except...

1. Below "Help" and "Search" would be a "Host Computer Info" box which would show the CPU, RAM, OS version, whether the account is admin or limited, and other useful specs.

Just wondering, is there any way you can have the portable apps icons be put onto the desktop autmatically after hiding the computer's?

[Topic clarified by Mod Tim]

I know that PortableApps is an open source project but this is stealing

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Just a HUGE thank you to the creators of PortableApps.com. In the last 2 weeks I've gone from frustration over lack of portability (I use 3-4 different computers a day) to loading an entire 2GB flash drive to capacity.

Love it, Thanks again!

Hey all, my first post here!

what i'm looking for is a way to have USBstick-portable encrypted email, and be able to use it on both windows and linux PCs.
I've been using TBP+Enigmail before, and it's as good as ideal - except for that i can't read or send encrypted emails if i only have access to a linux computer at the moment.
This is some serious impediment to my "portability".

I been searching both here and google and I didn't find any posts/info on the subject so I thought I'd ask here... has this been spoken of before maybe somewhere I missed? Is this the right place to talk about it? and is it allowed?
I done it with mine and it seems to work with no adverse effects.
Can I post what I've done in this forum or will that be frowned upon?

Hi everybody!
I would like to know, how can I protect my pendrive from virus, worms, malwares, etc.
I use my Portable in College, Work, my girlsfriend home...
and I would like to ask for some way to protect it, for example, some sofwtare "write protect" that don't allow any program of damned virus to write in my portable USB, or some kind of "USB firewall protect" that would have the same function...
thx in advanced ^^

Can anyone recommend a fast 16gb thumb drive or large to me. Corsair Flash Survivor are nice. Any other recommendations?

Ok I realy like FirefoxPortable and this website too. But since I am using FirefoxPortable everywhere i always have download problems, like my portable hard drive has different letters ( E:\, F:\, G:\ ) and so on. So when i download very large files, say gamespot's demos i am very limited to where i can keep downloading them couse if drive letter is different i loose all my downloads and forced 2 use desktop as my download folder.

I know this has been extensively discussed before, but bear with me ...

Prior to using PortableApps, I had a U3 stick. I had this configured so that when I inserted it, it prompted me for a password which, if entered correctly, allowed everything to start up normally. It's my understanding that without the correct password the drive could not be mounted/read - only reformatted. This all worked fine until U3 eventually became dead-in-the-water.