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USB image

Submitted by Johnsmith1234567890 on April 12, 2013 - 3:01am

I tried to change the image of my USB through the autorun, however the portable apps platform wouldn't run after i did this. Is there another way to do this? and if yes how?

How does portable apps work!?

Submitted by batinica on April 10, 2013 - 10:13am

I know it is a broad question, I am referring more to the permissions a user requires to run the apps. I have a thumb drive with portable apps installed and the apps I want are installed. If I take this thumb drive into college am I able to use the apps without any special permissions? The system is fairly restricted so I am curious as to how exactly the system works so I can judge whether I am breaking any rules in regards to the colleges computer usage policy. Any help is very much appreciated.

New feature: Popup menu item with all installed portable applications

Submitted by Kloas76 on April 10, 2013 - 5:55am

Hello, I am/was a pStart user and I recently switched to the PortableApps.com platform. I like the automatic update feature but I think that the PortableApps.com menu is just too big. I would prefer a simple popup menu with all the installed applications, just like pStart.

I've adjusted the source of v11.2 just a little bit and added a new menu item to the taskbar popup menu, see http://i48.tinypic.com/25sojdx.png
What do you think of adding such a feature to the new PortableApps.com Platform release?

howto send message to platform to reload app symbols ?

Submitted by joachimb on April 7, 2013 - 3:30pm

hello comunity,

I'm using the portableapps Platform for some years now. I run the platform from several truecrypt volumes. Each volume had it's own PApps Instance. Now I want to use only one Instance of PApps with those truecrypt volumes. This is done with mklink /J to join the different applications into one PApps Directory.
This work's fine.

The only caveat is, after joining the Volumes I must run "platform->applications->reload symbols" manually.

Is there a way to automate this task to include this in the join process.

error starting Portableapps on linux using wine

Submitted by jojothehobo on March 26, 2013 - 10:14am

I tried to run my portable apps usb on a modern (Zorin 6 ultimate) Linux distribution, using Wine. I'm running a two year old desktop with AMD quad core with 8gb ram and 256 gb hard drive.I got an error message:

start message:

NSIS was not found!(Looked for it in ..\NSISPortable\App\NSIS\makensis.exe)

You can specify a custom path to makensis.lexe in Z:\media\NONAMEFOR\PortableApps\PortableApps.comlauncher\Data\settings.ini,[GeneratorWizard]:makensis

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