General Discussion

considering the focus here is simplicity and lightweigth, I dont understand the concept behind putting a splash screen that starts up as a separate processes and remains there after the portable app has booted.

Can I bypass it and go straight to the main app without affecting the portable functionality?

Tried a few times to enter an application with a .exe. When going through the process and reache the point of browsing for the application the only box selection is *.paf.exe ? The drop down does not have just for the .exe?

Hi.. I'm pretty new here.. and I checked whole forum, dl the apps put them on my brand new usb flesh pocket thingy and get dissapointed by speed... I have no idea why but all apps are slow as hell (on the other side from pc itself it's fast as hell but who cares about pc).. they are simply useless.. all of them.. I wait like 20-25s to FF just to load, 10sec to check email in TB, I'm not mentioning OOO, etc. etc... So.. Is my USB flesh shitty? Is USB 2.0 shitty? Am I shitty? Are all portApps shitty? What's wrong with it? The whole idea of portable life don't work... what to do?

(There was a similar discussion last year https://portableapps.com/node/5069)

Now the 1.1 is the official version, what do you think is coming next?
Yes, I know, the PA Platform 1.5.
But whats happening next year, in 2 or 3 years?
I think there won't be an PAM OS ever, so it useless to discuss, but what could be happend? Is PA still alive in 3 years?
What's coming up? My prognosis:
1 Years: 1st ports to Mobile Phones.
1-2 Years: The Platform supports widgets.
2 Years: The Platform becomes to a desktop.

Hi there

Does anyone knows how to modify the default name of an application ?
What i want to do is to change "Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition" into something shorter.

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I tried to modify the "Name" value located into the [Details] section of \\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\App\AppInfo\appinfo.ini but without any result...

Can this be done ?
Thanx
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Franck

Hi, I need to know how to quit the tray icon of portable apps menu and other currently apps.

I need that the program continues to operate but without this icon.

Thanks

I'm packaging the Suite 1.1 and have hit a block. PNotes, which used to work with Windows 9x no longer does. It looks like it's due to use of advanced window features (like transparency). Right now, everything else in the Suite works on Windows 98 and above (most Windows 95). We'll be dropping that requirement in the next Suite because it will have Firefox 3 (and eventually Thunderbird 3) which only support Windows 2000 and up.

So, I'm thinking of pulling PNotes from the Suite for now. Any thoughts?

Okay, I'm pretty new to Drupal, not sure if this'll work, but I was browsing modules and found the SpamSpan module.
According to the page, it obfuscates email addresses to help prevent spambots from collecting them.
This would give the mods one less task to take care of
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Just for laughs I copied my Internet Explorer folder from my programs folder to my portable apps drive. It ran fine on the three machines I tested. Granted those three machines were all either Windows XP or Vista and had the same version of IE installed.

I realize that IE isn't open source but I thought it was worth mentioning for those of us that use Internet Explorer and not Firefox.