General Discussion

Hi Guys,

I have 3 questions for you guys and the Portableapps community.
Say I want to create my own portableApp of my home cooked MFC application connecting to MySql db (for example...), do you guys have a devtoolkit that I can use to build that or how does it really work?

Hi all!
First of all I want to thank to all beta testing staff for helping me to release version 3.0 of PNotes!
Today, while surfing on sites where PNotes is published, I've happened to find out its clone from previous version named NotesRobot, which is offered for sell at _http://www.railfox.com by $20. The guys simply got my source code and recompiled it without changes under different name. Even the help file stayed the same. The only difference is that clicking on "Show License" on About dialog does not bring up the GPL file.

hello there . i'm using both Thunderbird and Firefox portables
yet i've this problem with feeds ,,
in Firefox when i click on a feed and the preview show up i choose Thunderbird to be the default for it
but nothing happens . when i choose Thunderbird and click ok nothing changes and i then have to added it manually . is there is any way to make Firefox detect Thunderbird ?!

thanks

Hi!
I love portable apps! It so cool to use my apps everywhere without carrying my notebook around. And a new Windows-Setup is much faster, with installing all my favourite apps with one copy&paste

Anyway, some things annoy me: the lack of (non portable) application, to handle portable applications!

For example: Launchy (my favourite starter) can't handle firefox portable bookmarks.

Hi people. I've got a (silly?) question. Somewhere on this forum I read about people using a different installer than Windows Installer that remembers everything that's installed when you want to install an application on your computer. So it remembers registry changes, new folders, etc., you probably know what I mean.
Now, I've searched all over this forum and Google, and I'm not able to find it! Could anyone please tell me what kind of program(s) this/these are?

A list of more applications that can be installed/copied to a portable device can be found here: http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm

Not all of the apps are in a portable form, such as Spybot S&D amd Ad-Aware, but they can be installed to an external HDD or USB drive and they work fine.

If I understand the context of the current guidelines, one CAN post about their own software if it is under an OSI approved license and it is portable, or if somebody asks a question relating directly to that application. Is my understanding correct?

I ask because I plan to be writing a few apps in my spare time, they will be GPL or LGPL, and I would like to make them portable and PAF compliant. It will be some time before anything about these apps is posted, but when the time comes, I don't want to be accused of self-promoting.

Hi one and all, I am new to this forum and rubbish with a computer, so expect some pretty basic questions in the future! I installed the full suite on my usb drive a few days ago and think it's great, so all works fine but two questions, should the menu icon be one the taskbar even when usb is not connected and is the X at the bottom right of the menu there to close it. Every time I try to "safely remove" a message tells me the drive is still in use. Any advice would be helpful but keep it in simple terms! My OS is XP Pro. Thanks in advance.

I needed my I-stick for another purpose and decided to delete the portableapps program. I deleted everything including hidden items, formated both drive letters shown and still the extra drive letter continues to show. Main drive letter "E" is showing 900+MB memory and drive "F" 10MB.

How do I wipe out the "F" drive? I can't find any information about doing so and hope someone here can help.

Thanks....

Connor

I was having trouble getting Portable Apps to install on a USB drive and someone suggested setting it up on the hard drive and then transfering the whole thing. Well that worked, but the setup changed the disk icon to a custom icon. Two questions: Why? And now that I have moved all the Portable Apps files I have been left with a bum icon, looks like a file that has no association. I am not the only person who uses this machine so down the road this is going to cause confusion. How can I get the generic hard drive icon back.

Thanks,

David