General Discussion

Does anyone know what things might naturally break in certain PortableApps when launching from WinPE?

It seems the more simple apps work, but a lot of things like most Browsers (not all) and more complicated apps don't seem to run at all. Sometimes there's a missing DLL or some other exception, or sometimes the splash screen shows up but the app doesn't launch.

Any clues what mandatory Windows files need to be present for All PortableApps to work, which may not be present on a WinPE build?

Locked - mod GC

Hello
I'm new using PortableApps.
Can you suggest a method of protectiing a PortableApps USB drive?
I am looking for something free and open source also fast to use and without admin privileges.

Also PortableApps runs slow. Is it because of USB or local PC?

Thanks

Hello Everyone,

I would like to know the process & instructions on how to build a portable app from scratch and, locally.

I used to use vmware thinapp (process of building app is quite simple and straight forward) to make portable app however i believe portableapps.com is a better to build portable.

I found one post old post https://portableapps.com/node/14868 however i find it difficult to understand the instructions.

Hi!
If a portable app appears on SourceForge, but not in the News section yet, is it safe to download it?
For instance, I saw that Firefox ESR 68.2.0 is ready on SourceForge, but not in News.

Hello,

Firefox 70 has just recently hit the stable release, and it updates a lot of stuff, but the update I'm talking about here is the new logo.
The portable Firefox apps (Firefox, Firefox Beta, Firefox Dev, Firefox Nightly) still use the previous logo, so these apps should change their logo as soon as possible, preferrably when PortableApps.com mods update the said apps.

I've installed Portable Apps on my flash drive but would like to change the default name that the installer created. I've tried standard ways to change what name appears when I put the flash drive in a system, but no luck. Any ideas?

Bubba

Is it possible to make a version of Portable Apps that would be specifically for macOS in the future? I love the idea, and since my college doesn't have many of the apps I use on a daily basis preinstalled on any system, I have a huge folder of apps that I carry around on my flash drive (PC), and my USB Hard Drive (macOS)

I'm still using Opera 12. It's just faster with the keyboard shortcuts and nicknames for the websites that I visit.

But there are some sites where the layout is broken.

I have keyboard shortcuts to automatically open the site in Firefox or Chrome, but for quick reference of sites that I don't need to specifically browse, I've discovered that K-mellon portable, as simple and lightweight and feature stripped it is, opens quickly and renders some sites pretty quickly and accurately.

I noticed that there are some 7-Zip registry entries left behind. So I changed the launcher.ini and added the following line:

[RegistryCleanupForce]
1=HKCU\Software\7-zip

Is this line appropriate in this case? Will this break the app in other ways? So far, I haven't noticed any adverse affects.

Feature request:

I would love to see a "Check integrity" feature in the PortableApps "Start" app that checks selected portable apps for hash errors and re-installs the ones found with hash errors.