General Discussion

I was having problems getting GIMP, GAIM and GTK+ to play along together in Vista Ultimate. After a couple of hours of frustration, I downloaded and installed Portable Apps Menu.
It installed without a problem, as Admin, and I was able to Sudoku and XAMPP installed as well.
GAIM has a problem with the display of the fonts, not sure if that is a problem with it getting the font info from Vista or a limitation of Beta5. Beta6 didn't have the problem.

GIMP and everything is now working just fine.

Thumbs up!

Psijudge.

Any way to cause the Portable Apps to startup on computer when flash drive is inserted? Thanks.

While on my favourite torernt site I came across a portable version of dreamweaver 8 and Nero 7, would these be real? I can send people the torrenmt files if they want to have a look.

Thanks all in advanced

Dave

I was wondering if anyone knows how (or even if) you can make shortcuts that are able to work on a thumb drive even if the letter changes from one computer to the next. For example, instead of a normal shortcut saying somthing like "E:/FireFox/Firefox.exe" I'm thinking of it just having it point to the FireFox directory and the exe within it. That way I can use just a few apps on a smaller drive. Another way of saying it is I want to make a relitive shortcut instead of a fixed shortcut.

I have download utorrent and tor and tried to install them on my portable apps menu. I renamed their extensions as .paf.exe and whenever i click install it just freezes. Any help...

Someone (I think John) had the idea of placing common files (like GTK) in their own directory instead of having multiple copies for each app. What happened to that idea?

Also, what apps share what?

I don't pretend to know anything about programming, but I know I like the PortableApps Menu. I also know I'd like to see the skinning enhanced. I'll get to the point...

http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Software-Developer/Delphi/SXSkinComponen...

Would that allow png support for PAM? Serious question, I really have no idea.

Thanks for looking.

Has anyone considered installing PortabeApps Suite on their desktop?

It would be great. If you have multiple pcs you could set up your favorite apps in PAM and drag and drop from your usb drive to your c: drive. Put a shortcut to PAM in startup and have all your favorite apps ready to go. You could do this over several computers or have one easy app install when reinstalling Windows.

Hello,
I have installed www.portableapps.com suite on MANY* USB drives without incident, including different SanDisk models. I love the suite and recommend it to everybody I meet.

However, I just purchased a number of the Cruzer Mini 4GB drives and after installing the PortableApps Suite I get the following error box when I attempt to start the suite:

16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
D:\STARTP~1.EXE
The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.

Since the new launchers support a simple replacement of files, why not provide an archive that includes the files that need to be replaced? In most cases it tends to be only the executable and perhaps a library or two. This would definitely save bandwidth for both the site and the downloader. Obviously, the full distribution would still be available. Also, adding a link to the latest launcher for each program to its respective download page would be nice too.