General Discussion

I wanted to use a couple of the U3 porable progams on my non U3 Smartdrive USB. I figured out a way to to it.

1. Download a U3 app from the SanDisk website.
2. Right click on the app an open it with WinRar.
3. WinRar will give you an error. Ignore it and you should still be able to view the files inside the U3 exe.
4. Now click on "Convert to SFX". You can use the default options and click on.
5. It will convert the U3 exe and the icon may change to a WinRar exe file.
6. Now right click the exe and extract the files.

As some of yyou may know we had a spammer come onto our channel last night on IRC and started well… spamming it. We quickly found out that this spammer also had an anonymizer so we could not ban him or even track which person it was when they entered into the channel. After 2-4 hours of work we finally got a solution that worked and were managed to bring the channel under control. Right now I want to point out some people that helped out a lot and that we should thank for of the help they gave.

Hello,

Is it possible to create files in portable apps to store its programs by categories portable?

Thx

I know the "Portable Apps for Linux" heat has kind of died down, but I'd like to say a few words why this isn't moving along.

On Windows, when you install a program, you get a folder with the program files, and possibly a few registry entries and configuration files (usually in the same folder as the program). Therefore, it is not too difficult to take the program (or make a launcher :), modify it so that it does not save registry entries, and publish that. All the necessary dependencies and outside functions are stored in the dll files found scattered all over a Windows install.

I have a game called Lego Racers and I'm making it portable. I also have SMART Technologies applications (like SMART notebook etc.) and I'm making that portable. Can I legally make it a beta app so that others can download it from this website?

I hope I am asking the right way, as I am not used to Forums...
I am looking for a password protection I can install on my USB key that will ask for a password before opening, without encryption, so that I can use it on any PC (so without ADM priviledge)during travelling, free or not..
I looked very hard on the net but most come with encryption and always with the necessity of using it on a PC with adm priviledge..
Can you help me

Many thanks
tremblant [at] bigfoot [adot] com

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I'm using Portable Firefox & Portable Thunderbird which I have updated online before I read the FAQ which said this was no longer advisable. Now, when I shut down, I find instances of (non-portable) FF & TB on the host computer, which need to be stopped before I can unplug. ?Is this normal behavior?? ?Is it related to my updates?? ?Should I install the newer Portable versions over the updated ones??

Thanx for the help,
Bill Zigrang

Okay, i just bought new 16gb sandisk cruzer flash drive.
Before it i used Transcend Jetflash 512mb.
After i copied all data, including portableapps, on cruzer, i got one small problem.
Firefox was extremely slow. (Standart Firefox portable, non-u3)
I disabled about ten addons, but i still get lags and freezes when i try to move on page or open new. Lags about 1-5 secs.
On transcend firefox working perfectly. But CheckFlash said that cruzer have read/write speed about x3 times faster than jetflash.
Pegtop PStart also working slower on cruzer, but other apps seems to work much faster...

Does anyone know what happened to the CXBX page? I thought I'd test it out today but the page is non existant

Here's the link from the test page table - https://portableapps.com/node/10893

Hopefully just a glitch

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Will someone, please, point me to the FAQ that shows how to synch-up PortableApps with with desktop apps?

I need to be able to synch Bookmarks, data files, etc.

Also, is there a way to share settings, such as in Firefox so that they both perform the same way?

Thanks-