General Discussion

Any suggestions for a work around for recognizing and evoking the portable app from the file or explore mode.

An example would be when the user, (in the file folder or explorer mode) double clicks on a open office file it will not start the open office application from the portable app, when the open office software is not on the operating system which the USB stick is plugged into.

Hi there,

for some reason I can't install portable apps on my 4gb astone usb stick. It comes up with:

#0 PortablApps_Suite_Standard_1.0.exe is not supported archive.

the error message is from 7-zip

I've tried both the light and the standard version, both won't work. I had tried to put portable apps on a few weeks ago and it worked fine, so don't know what's wrong now.

Any ideas?

Thanks
kabo

Is there anyway to prevent the Portable Apps Suite from minimizing automatically to the tray after starting a program?

I mostly use the suite at my school computer labs, which are locked with Desktop Authority, which apparently won't give me access to the anything on the task bar, including the system tray icons (I can't even right click!).

Thanks!

Today is Ryan's birthday. Not sure if he wanted the other folks here to know... but screw it, I'm blabbing. For those who don't know, Ryan McCue is one of the site moderators/developers here at PortableApps.com. So, happy birthday, Ryan!

As the first two pages of the tracker have been fixed,

PLEASE STOP EDITING OLD POSTS TO FIX SIGNATURES.

It forces old topics to appear as new on the main page even though they're quite old. Someone went through and edited posts as old as mid-August, causing the tracker to be filled with old topics.

If older topics are resurrected, mods will edit the posts within them.

I formatted my drive to NTFS and now it won't autoplay when I insert it, it just opens up the drive in Explorer. I have to manually autorun it by right-clicking on the drive letter and selecting AutoPlay. Is there any way to change the properties so it autoplays on insertion like it's supposed to?

It's been a long time coming, but personal signatures are finally separated from content on the site. Now, when you create a comment, your signature will not appear in the box. It will appear below your comment once posted, though. And, when you update your signature, it will update across all your comments.

The signatures are also displayed in a smaller italicized font to make it more clear that it isn't part of the comment itself, making it easier to follow along a discussion. This also makes any lines of characters people add to signatures to separate them redundant.

What about main post tags?

I think that might help with come of the search issues. Many people try to search, but come up empty because they do not know exactly what to search for.

Example: ImgBurner Generic Portable v1.5. Description might say something like this. A portable version of ImgBurner Generic 1.5. This program can manage your cd or dvd burning tasks.

(Tags): ImgBurner dvd cd burn burner cdwriter dvdwriter dvdrw cdrw cdr dvdr copy clone.

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The Kazoo Spartan

at school none of the exe programs work at school pleace help

They all block and it is point less to bring the softwar in if is block or crashers because the sytem is ify.

I am using MplayerUI as a portable media player (less CPU intensive then VLC). My problem: In the launcher both MPUI.exe and mplayer.exe are displayed and I need only one. How can I bypass PA's automatic filling of the menu with executables? I was thinking of links/bats. Any ideas?

Similarly I get 4 exe's from Pain.net portable (found it on some french site) and Totalcommander (which I've noticed keeps only it's directory shortcuts on the machine, the rest works just fine).