General Discussion

Hello everyone,

I am quite new to the portable apps platform. In fact I landed here while looking for a solution for installing a portable version of Visual Studio 2008. I am not even sure if this is possible, but it would be very helpful for me to have that.

Especially when I have to go to the customers with different machine setups and look at the problems they are encountering, I could use the portable VS to actually go through and debug the code on the clients machine itself.

What happened to these icons?
https://portableapps.com/files/images/logos/winmd5sum_small.png
https://portableapps.com/files/images/logos/spydllremover.png
https://portableapps.com/files/images/logos/virtual_magnifying_glass.png

Now think hard, are they pretty? No.
(Sorry if it sounded harsh, but it took a while to find them, and I have to get back to homework :P)

Do we still need the SourceForge.net Outage thread locked at the top of the page?

Or TWO threads covering the same subject, Vote for PortableApps.com in Lifehacker's Best Portable Apps Suite, one of which is also locked at the top?

Subject pretty much says it all. I was wondering what the general state of U3 is/was. It never really seemed to take off from what I could tell. The idea was a good one, the implementation was poor. Whenever I got a flash drive with it on, I uninstalled it immediately.

I'm wondering if PA.c has had a large impact (in a positive way) on the seemingly inevitable demise of U3.

I've just implemented the ability to subscribe to forum threads and stories so that you get email notifications of new content. We'll have this on as a trial to see how much of a load it places on the system. Please let me know if you have any issues with it.

Thanks!

Hi,

Is there any reason why you can't subscribe to a topic like in a normal forum?

Hi folks,

I installed TrueCrypt and Portable Apps on my USB stick. While this setup is working fine, there's a little drawback when it comes to restricted accounts in corporate networks, where you cannot execute TrueCrypt.

This brought me to the idea that it would be great to have a setup option, which splits the portable apps suite into apps and data, which contain sensitive data (like thunderbird, maybe firefox etc) and apps and data, which are securely usable everywhere.

Cheers
Vince

I'm looking for any opinions on this topic. I currently have a format that I use and always have a complete package of the the PortableApps Menu and all apps up to date. I was wondering what the thoughts would be on offering this as a link somewhere so as new individuals get involved in using the site, they can have kind of a one stop shop and download all current official applications. Also, it can be hosted wherever you wish. Just an idea, looking for opinions as to whether anyone feels a possible need for this. I would be willing to keep this updated daily.

Well, I went against John's advice and well, crashed google chrome (forced closed it with my fancy menu). And well, ever since then, its had a little memory problem. It doesn't remember anything I do. I mean all my most viewed pages had been reset and chrome never shows new ones on startup and it forgets all my settings that I change.

I was going to do a fresh install, but then I thought, will google still receive the stuff I type in the address bar? I mean I heard that google knows everything you look at through there web browser but can they see it now that its broken?

Lifehacker is doing a vote on the best portable app suites and we're happy to be in the lineup (thanks to our many awesome users who nominated us). And we'd love to have you show your support by voting for us in the poll!

Unfortunately, our competition contains illegal software (GPL, copyright, licensing, and trademark violations) and has stolen software from PortableApps.com (stripping off the GPL license, readme, source code, etc from our many portable application launchers and other open source utilities).

So please show your support for PortableApps.com by voting today: