General Discussion

I was wondering what the default launcher that acts as a shortcut to exe in the app folder is used for other than the popup logo. Does it have any effects on the registry if I don't use it?

Sorry if someone has requested this before, I did search but found no other similar feature requests.

I'm just wondering about the possibility of adding an inline search to the PortableApps.com menu, similar to how Windows Vista's inline search works. Search Indexing could be local to the drive and this would make searching much faster than the host machine's search.

An app and 2 games I have on my flash drive.

The app is Aida32, a system diagnostic tool, free and fully portable, and damn useful for the roaming tech. Weighs in at under 5 megs too. Info and download can be found here

The 2 games are Titans of Steel and Well of Souls

Hey all,

Just got a Kingmax Superstick 8gb (http://www.amazon.com/KingMax-Microsoft-Certified-Drive-Washer/dp/B001AM...) yesterday and install portable apps plus FF3, OpenOffice, Putty, 7zip, Gimp, FileZilla, KeePass, VLC, Task Coach and GNUCash on the drive and when running FF3 I am getting realllllly slow speeds (2x-3x slower than native firefox), so I have a few questions:

1) Does having more apps slow down PA even if Im just using one app at a time?

Can a portable desktop/desktop manager be made. If it can be made I have I picture of what it might look like.
How/Ware do I upload a picture so I can show it to you all.

Hi Guys,

I have tons of swf files. I know how to play them and/or convert them
I have all needed to play them on XP and all. That is not a problem...
... but I have to give those written to MP3-palyer or USB Stick
The "destination computer" have nothing and people there don't understand a thing about PC.
I explained to them how to use portable VLC and/or Mplayer
Problem is that VLC don't play swf and Mplayer plays them in "fastest motion possible"

I know many people would say defaults but as a gamer/tech I have come to realize... defaults suck...

Before (like when XP first came out...) I just let it format with defaults... since then however I have come to customize everything... even now I notice a performance gain from my WD Raptor's when I use 64k unit allocation for OS Drive/Game Drive/Storage drive...

So i guess my reason for this post... Whats the best FileSystem/Allocation Unit size?

I have the following as options...
FAT32 - 512b/1024b/2048b/4096b/8192b/16384b/32768b/65536b

UPDATE: We're picking members now:
https://portableapps.com/node/15776

Now that I'm back into the daily grind, I'd like to get some comments on a plan I've come up with to help get the app releases moving.

Hello, I just downloaded portableapps and put it on my flash drive. Whenever i open one of the apps the menu itself closes. I want to keep it open, is there any way to do this? Also, is there anything I can do that will make it faster?

I know this has been talked about before, but Notepad++ Is crashing, even with the current update. Anyone know why this is happening?