PortableApps.com Platform

Just installed. Great idea. However, I cannot remove the memory stick. It's constantly in use even after all portable applications are closed. The process portappl remains active (in task manager). When I finally killed the process and tried to close the stick, OS crashed. Any suggestions on removing the USB? Thanks.

Or at least, I think it does...

Whenever I put in my flash drive, it changes to my portable wallpaper, and whenever I go back, it's stuck on the wallpaper it was on when the PortableApps.com platform took over.

It's the only solution I can think of. That, or Windows 7 forgets you have a slideshow set up and randomly stops on one. But then I go into the settings, and it doesn't say I have a slideshow set, just that I have the one it's on.

YuS - following this:

The PortableApps.com Menu can automatically add apps in PortableApps.com Format. Just download the the PortableApps.com Installer (ending in .paf.exe) for the app you'd like to add (like FileZilla Portable, for instance). Then, in PortableApps.com Menu, click Options - Add a New App - Install and then select the FileZilla Portable .paf.exe file you just downloaded. The PortableApps.com Menu will automatically install it to the proper location for you.

Works.

Hi there I installed a program, which listed itself 5 different times, so i was trying to find the correct one, and deleted the rest off the list by renaming them to "-" but i deleted the wrong one by mistake, so I was wondering how to add it back to the menu???

Anyone know how to do this? I would greatly appreciate the help.

Thanks

The applications can be shrunk by about 30 - 40 kb by using a PNG optimizer, pngout or Optipng.

Pngout seems to do well but you will need drag and drop onto the executable file by file.

You can use FileMenu Tools and set the Multiple Instances to sequential so that you don't need to drag and drop 40 or more files.

website of pngout: http://advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm

I uninstalled the U3 drivers that came standard on my 16 Gig U3 drive. After installing portable apps and some of the apps i wanted, i removed it from my computer. Later when i put the drive back into my computer it was wiped clean, I cant access the Drive at all every time i try to open the drive windows tells me that it needs to be formated. When i try to format it, it eather just sits there and does nothing or it gets an error message.

I installed the latest version of Open Office (3.1.1) this afternoon, and noticed that the OO Front End program "OpenOfficePortable.exe" is not shown in the P-Apps menu (v2.0 beta 3). Is this intended, or is there something wrong.

Before anyone asks "Why would you want to be able to open this, when you can just run the Individual applications?", it does give immediate access to some of the settings, and YES - i know that you can get to it by opening any other OO app and closing the open Document, but it takes longer.

NB. I have checked for Hidden Icons.

Hi,

I've been busily building up a portfolio of useful apps on my flash stick.

It's a GREAT tool

However, I wonder if there is a way to alter the order that icons are displayed - what I would like to do is put the more frequently used ones at the top - but it seems to force them into alphabetical order.

Perhaps there is a way to do it, but I have missed it.

Also it strikes me that allowing sub-menus would be a useful way of organizing apps.

Dave

Is there a way to show a batch file in the portable apps menu? I am using platform 2 beta 3.

Does it only pick up .exe?

I was thinking of writing a program in C++ to open it but that seems like it would be a lot of work if the platform could be configured to show it.

Thanks!

I was thinking about the wallpaper swapper built into the menu... In the development test releases, there is like only one desktop icon replacer that actually works. There is also the portableapps icon application, but that is only one icon, and it isn't really an icon at all.

What would be nice is if Mr. Haller could somehow add something like the wallpaper swapper, but more advanced, almost to where it creates a whole new "desktop" folder. It would have:

1) a background - perhaps it could be as easy to set and change as the menu picture is.