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Home Page URLs

Submitted by J Neutron on October 31, 2009 - 9:41am

I know consistency is an important consideration here, which is why I'm bring this up.

There is an issue with the way that some portableapps.com URLs resolve that probably came about from categorizing the applications.

For example, in the 7-ZipPortable help.html file, the URL for "Go to the 7-Zip Portable Homepage" is coded as "https://portableapps.com/7-ZipPortable" but quickly goes to "https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable".

This doesn't work correctly for other packages.

Encrypting profiles

Submitted by MeCasa on October 30, 2009 - 1:45am

I run Firefox and Tbird off a thumb drive and recently I decided to encrypt in case I lost a drive.I installed TrueCrypt on a thumb and then installed Firefox and Tbird inside a file container, however the browser was so slow as to be nonusable. A friend at Mozzilazine suggested encrypting the profile alone, any opinions and/or suggestions.

Thanks

Installing Visual Studio 2008 as a portable app

Submitted by harpreetde on October 28, 2009 - 5:21am

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.

Less than Lovely Logos

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Submitted by digitxp on October 27, 2009 - 6:45pm

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)

Forum cleanup?

Submitted by Ed_P on October 27, 2009 - 5:46pm

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?

U3: Is it dead?

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Submitted by Darkbee on October 27, 2009 - 8:49am

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.

Secure Setup

Submitted by vincent-de on October 26, 2009 - 5:46pm

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

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