General Discussion

I wanted to give a shout out to the developers and volunteers who help run this site and provide the awesome applications. I am nuts about portable software, and if they're free, so much the better!

I use the apps on here so much, and am going to make a donation to help support this site as well!

I do have a question though, in my quest for portable apps, I came across portablefreeware.com. What are the main difference betweens portablefreeware and portableapps?

I just got a SanDisk 16GB Contour. It has U3 on it, but i do not like U3 is there any way to replace U3 with Portable Apps, So that upon insertion instead of U3 popping up it is PortableApps

Hi,

I'm new to these portable applications. Just like to find out something..
Other then those applications shown on this site, can i install other apps of my own choice?

For example Microsoft Office 2007, Dreamweaver or Adobe Photoshop?

Why are all apps not made portable? In the sense that they save all of the files are made in their own directory and compacted to the smallest possible size.

[Topic clarified by mod Tim]
was: Portable Apps

I know that there is encription software for preventing unwanted access to files on a flash drive or PHDD. I want to know How to prevent a flash drive from being infected with malware and viuruses. If useing a flash drive on a compermised system say a Liburary sys, School sys etc. Some systems may not have adiquite virus protection.

Does anyone know of a way to do this as it would be good to know.

I had ceedo on my stick with Copernic desktop search installed. My stick broke and I lost Ceedo. So I installed Portable Apps on a new USB stick and downloaded Copernic Desktop search home. However, the latter refuses to install but to the local dir (i.e. C-dir); it doesn't accept the drive letter my USB stick is mounted on.

Just a note informing the community that WikiHow.com, the how-to Wiki, has an article on PortableApps.com, in case anyone from here wants to represent the site.

Recently, I was presenting my collection of portable apps and other things and I was asked if they are also similar portable apps for MAC?

Well I have operated a mac abt twice in my life and have not much contact to any mac users, but are they any portable apps for mac or not?
Or do they have some feature like wine on linux to be able to run some of the apps anyway?

Sorry, but myself I have absolutely no clue about mac system, therefore the question here.

Hey all, I needed to address these 3 issues but I didn't want to spam the posts with 3 different threads so I just placed everything here. Mods feel free to move it if necessary.

Firstly, I would like to say that the works you all are doing is excellent. I have been a member of PA for 3 or so months and I am loving it! Congratulations John and you guys, keep up the great work!

Secondly, I am having a problem with Pidgin. I enabled the Transparency plugin, but Pidgin crashes every time I open a IM window with it enabled. Any help?

Am I right in thinking that a portable application is any application that does not write to the registry, and does not put icons on the desktop.

Thanks