General Discussion

I have VLC Media Player Portable, but it isn't quite what I'm looking for. I use PortableApps on my portable hard drive and I keep all of my music and videos on the drive. I'd like to have a portable media player program that is able to maintain a media library on the drive rather than have to direct it to my music every time.

I was thinking that WinAmp portable would be a possibility, but it seems like that is against the terms of use on WinAmp... so that's out of the question. Are there any alternatives availible? Thanks for the help!

Some of these do require installation but the EXE can be copied from the computer and placed on a portable device. No extra files are needed and they run fine.

SilentNight - CD/DVD Burning
http://www.silentnight2004.com/Micro.html

uTorrent - P2P File Sharing
http://www.utorrent.com

Defraggler - Disk Defragmenter
http://www.defraggler.com

JkDefrag - Disk Defragmenter
http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Webroot Analyzer - Vulnerability Checker
http://webrootdisp.net/analyzer/

Portable Anti-Virus - Virus Detection
http://www.data0.net/index.htm

Autoruns - Startup Manager

The games in portable apps look a little slim, so I got a heavy hitter for you.

Urban Terror 4.1 ( completely free and legal)

Urban Terror is a free multiplayer first person shooter. Unlike old versions, it no longer requires Quake 3; anyone can download it and play for free. Urban Terror is available for windows, linux and macintosh, the current version is 4.1.

I've made a python script for batch updating my applications. Thought I would share it here with you guys, and of course as open source.
I've included configurations for some of the applications I use, to show how it works.
download link

15.2.2008 Update - handle http responses.
21.2.2008 Update - added ability to remove directories, use 'rmdir' for this
25.2.2008 Update - move function changed
26.3.2008 Update - bugfix

Portable Apps Suite RENAMED my Flash drive without warning and changed the drive icon to its own.

I am NOT happy about this!

How do I get back my original name and icon?

Thanks!

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I don't know if this site uses Drupal, but yesterday, my Mum told me that there is xsomething about Drupal going around that it is doing something illegal and that you can't unsubscribe from anything that Drupal has going. I just thought I'd mention it. I don't know if anyone has mentioned it in any other posts, but I think this is a very serious situation. Does this site use Drupal at all?

Sorry I've repeated this, it is just that I'm not too sure where I should have posted it. I thought I'd make a new topic about it as it is pretty major.

It looks like AVG is again having issues with detecting false positives in all the apps (or nearly all of them). As usual, we know it's a false positive because other antivirus products (like ClamWin Portable and the online scanners) all register them clean. And, AVG is detecting false positives in months-old releases which it didn't before.

If you're a user of AVG, you should contact their support to fix the issue. Until then, your only real options are:
1. Tell AVG to ignore the errors when it comes up
2. Disable AVG

I was wondering if there is a way to flag files or something so if someone tries to delete a file u have it would say something like "ACCESS DENIED" or just it wont delete. Cause i wanted to do that and encrypt them with toucan. Any help will be appreciated.

Malware Checker "Checkers" Needed

I here by volunteer to check new releases of the following for False Positives by:
McAfeeAV,
http://vil.nai.com/vil/submit-sample.aspx

AvastAV Portable
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=7779

ClamWinPortable:
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi

1. FireFoxPortable
2. ThunderBird Portable
3. ClamWinPortable

and to Report them to the companies in question.

Hey guys,

got 2 identical usb flash drives (both with a 1 GB-chip from samsung)..

One launches PAM perfectly with the default Autorun.inf, the other one _only_ with this content:

[Autorun]
UseAutoPlay=1
shellexecute=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
Action=Start PortableApps
Icon=PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\PortableAppsMenu.exe
Label=Geode

inside the file.

Although this works great, I got _two_ context menu-entries in Windows Explore if I right-click at the drive's icon stating "AutoPlay"?!