General Discussion

Well, I read many threads, but I didn't find anything with 7-z's portability.
Just want to know if it's portable, and where I can get a portable one if there is.

By the way, can anyone tell me how to create a zip with 7-z?
The official site said it supports to pack a zip, but I still don't know how to do it after checking the whole program.

How can I know if an app is portable？
Sorry, I don't know what to search for this question. /_\

Is portable app the same as green software?
Can somebody explain to me, please? orz

@John T. Haller
I tried to use an AIM link in my signature, but the forums can't handle it. The following link:

<a href="/aim:goim?screenname=fatcerberus">

...ends up linking to https://portableapps.com/goim?screenname=fatcerberus instead of aim:goim?screenname=fatcerberus.

Can you fix this? I'd like to put a clickable IM link in my signature, but this bug prevents me from doing so.

Hello all... I'm back! Didja miss me?

Sorry I've been away -- I (unexpectedly) had to leave for about a week... Long story.

Did I miss anything?

~nm35

John-Would putting a search forums box/link right next to the main forum page, be helpfull?

Also maybe putting that link as a sticky on every individual forum topic?

It seems that people can't find the search box in the upper right corner of the site.

Maybe they think that is not for the forum section.

Seems like it needs to be more prominent for people.

Hi all,
Pretty new here, but PAs are totally changing my life for the better! I've got a DiskGo 256MB USB watch and a OCZ Rally 1GB. At first I thought the watch (10mb/sec) read might be too slow. However, all applications I need basically run the same spead (once tweaked). Sorry to digress, just thought I'd let people know before they buy expensive USB drives.

What I would like to do is the following: have a launcher come up automatically everytime I plug in. I would also, like to have the drive either encypted (does doing this on the fly slow performance?) or at least password protected?

When I was investigating how well PAs would work for me I macro'd trials to test the speed of PFirefox.

Under the same conditions, switching every few seconds to make up for network fluctuations, PFirefox outperformed an identical regular Firefox. This happened after several thousand trials on 3 different computers with 3 different ISPs, for 6 different websites! I don't know how or why, but I love it!

Portable Firefox loaded identical pages faster than a regular Firefox install in all of 18 scenarios.. by between 3 and 21 percent faster!

Background:

I use up to 7 different computers a day, 4 to 5 at school, and 2 at home. I have a couple of programs that require absolute paths.

I am wondering if there is a way to make my USB Drive (80 GB Western Digital Passport) Mount on instead of the next available Drive letter (from G: to I: on differnet Computers). I've done this manually and after a reboot or after replugging, it reverts to the first available.

I'm wondering if there is some script that I can use to automount it at Drive X:.

Or would I have to use subst? I can use it, but it's not as tidy as I would like, even with a batch file. As the source path (G:, H:, etc) changes at different pcs, I would have to modify it each time to allow for this. Too much time spent. And two drive letters for one device. Or can you use a relative path is a batch file? I'm not that good at them myself, but I know the basics alright, and have experience with subst. Is there another way?

I don't normally like to post development stuff to the general forums, but as this will affect users of all the apps in general, I thought I would mention it here. I'm considering altering the directories used by the apps to streamline them a bit. I've posted about it here:
https://portableapps.com/node/1606

Please post any thoughts or comments to that thread.