PortableApps.com Platform

As the subject - Search reveals nothing and Add/Remove doesn't list it and there is no uninstall link anywhere I can see.
I thought this app. would be useful but I cannot fathom how to use it - I have a block on this.

Please help! Thanks.

OS XP SP2

On Aug 8, wk said:
so I´ve found the solution:
the menu.exe seems to read the default theme.ini for the standard settings -> I´ve changed the ini under app buttons from FontName=Tahoma to Font=Tahoma and it works.
Seems that the coding for the fonts is Font=.., not FontName=.

Actually, the same [AppButtons] FontName problem exists in the default theme.ini file under the following sections:

• [MenuButtons]
• [OpenMenuButtons]

Also change those two sections from "FontName=Tahoma" to "Font=Tahoma".

Jim

Hi all

My autorun recently got deleted and I am trying to remember how I wrote it!

I have a file "autorun.ini" in my root dir with


[Autorun]
Open=PortableApps\StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
Icon=PortableApps\StartPortableApps.exe
Label=PortableApps.com


But the run potable apps icon doesnt show up in the options prompt at all!
I cant see whats wrong, I could understand if it was there but didnt work properly....

I get this error on 1 of my computers:

"The portableappsmenu.exe file is not a valid portableapps.com release and cannot be launched."

how do i fix that? it works fine on School computers and my vista laptop, but not my XP desktop.

Is there a way to add files to the portable apps menu that are located on the local machine and not on the thumb drive?

I would like to have a command to change the windows theme, in a similar process than in the wallpaper switch...

Okay, I did something stupid. I thought I'd give portableapps.com Suite a try as a new user on a new flash drive.

1) I downed the suite, all 100+ MB
2) Plugged in the new Flash (yes, I erased all files on it first)
3) Invoked the Suite installer and of course it asked where did I want to install.
4) Found Drive D of the 1GB size (I thought, great) and installed
5) Only after I pulled the flash out did I find that the plug contacts were broken off inside the flash housing (I wondered why its light didn't blink during install)

Sorry everyone, I am very new to this, but I am having trouble with the custom background image in the Pictures folder on the flash drive. I chose the image I wanted and renamed it to "portableapps_wallpaper.bmp" Now for some reason I can load the image on ANY Vista OS but not on XP Home and Pro. I get a solid color screen on XP. I have tried multiple images and I made sure I tried .JPEG and .BMP extensions, (yes I changed the extension suffix, not the file name).

Whenever I try to run portableapps from the dialog that pops up on inserting the USB disk I get a message that start.exe cannot be found.

Is start.exe supposed to be in Windows itself or on the portableapps disk?

Hi

I was trying to manually get rid of an irritating virus on my pen drive, and accidentally deleted PortableAppsMenu.exe. I do not have a back up to restore from. I tried reinstalling the Platform using the platform download but the menu does not recognise any of my existing apps. Is there any way I can get menu to recognise my existing apps, without having to download and install them all over again?