General Discussion

would it not be a good idea to have an auto update feature in portable apps launcher. (apart from for FF obviously)

I know this would be handy for me, and it could be done only for the official portable apps that appear here! at least something that tells you which ones are out of date.
auto updater would be even better, even if it just downloaded and ran the installers (for portables) in sequence.

i did search but couldnt find anything on the forum about the prospect of this

ideas?

Hi, I have a dozen apps in my flash drive. I only want to delete one so I can add another one. How can I uninstall an app?

OS Win2k fully updated, Firefox 2.0.0.6, Open Office 2.2.1, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Zone Alarm 7.0.337 loaded + other apps.

When I tried to install POS 1.0 on a PNY Tech Attache 2G flash drive in N:\\PortableApps\PASuite with the downloaded .exe file in that location as well I received over 2300 errors in the log spread across all apps in the suite. The installed PortableApps (installed under PASuite by the installer) is 151 MB with 3,661 files in 529 folders. I also have the patch .exe, in the same PASuite folder, for OS's earlier than XP.

Hello,

after having plug-in my usb key, with a lot of port applications, in a chinese computer running a chinese anti virus, the chinese anti virus did I dont know what in the usb key.

The result, when i use my usb key, I can still launch the 'StartPortableApps " but the folders disapeared... I can still access
the "video, music ..." folders through the portable apps menu, but cant access the portableapplication folder.

It doesn't appear to be in my usb key, although I know it's here because I can launch the applications.

Any idea to help me ?

Having a list with Portable Apps is great, however I noticed some 3rd party ones in the list like XAMPP and Mac-on-Stick are 3rd party releases. Maybe these releases should be kept in a seperate list. Why? Because maybe the portability is okay I don't know in how far it can be considered a completely compatible app for the PA Platform.

Hello,

Putting Spybot on my usb stick makes PAM recognise all it's associated .exe files and list them on the menu. Is there any way to exclude certain .exe's from being listed?

With the ever increasing capacity of USB Sticks / Thumb Drives / Flash Drives it's maybe an idea to have a Deluxe edition. Hmm maybe they should be named after storage capacity. PortableAppsPlatform 256, 512, 1024 referring to the available space it is designed for.

I admit I just installed PortableApps and had to update (because of a crash on win 2000) to v1.0.1. Then I also installed most apps available on the Applications page.

Now I have some suggestions:

[1] The ability to collapse groups of Apps (for example Open Office) or a way to (sub) categorise the shortcuts in the start menu (using a + or something). This way a listing could be kept fairly small and for example games can be put into their own group.

I'm about to receive a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive to fiddle around with.

I was tempted to install an OS onto it until I read up on the limitations.
Has anyone tried actively running portable apps from one of these babies?

I have a 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro that I'll be comparing it to.
Although they are by no means in competition, it would serve as an interesting comparison.

Hitachi Microdrive:

Data buffer: (KB) 128
Rotational speed (rpm): 3600
Latency (average ms): 8.33
Media transfer rate (max. Mbits/sec): 57.1 - 97.9
Interface transfer rate (max. MB/sec)2: 33

How do I disable the splashscreen for all portable apps?