PortableApps.com Platform

This must have been requested before, but given the nature of the apps, this is more neccesary than one might think. Currently, getting all my apps to exit themselves is a nuisance. Every app has to be exited, and worse than that, I have to exit some apps in a specific order (more on that later).

I say if a menu can start apps, it can exit them. And so can Windows, but since I don't shutdown my pc when I leave it (I use hibernation) nothing is closed by Windows automatically.

I would like it if it were possible to start an app from the menu, after which the menu would *not* hide itself. For example, by holding shift.

This works in Windows XP as well (using the classic start menu). It's very convenient to quickly start a bunch of apps one after another.

Hi,

after selecting "update" and the updater progress window briefly appears, my PortableApps updater closes itself abrubtly and reports the usual dialog that all apps have been updated. However, no such update has taken place and, when I run the updater again, it correctly shows the same updates available as before. The updates have not been applied, as the applications are not up to date, e.g. FirefoxPortable 18.

I have updated from PortableApps.com version 11 to 12b2 without change.

John Haller wrote, on 2012-09-27:

virtualization in a stable, reliable form is something I'd like to look into including at some point.
https://portableapps.com/news/2012-09-27--portableapps.com-platform-11.0...

Does this mean that the PortableApps.com platform only migrates changes upon app termination?

I'm looking for a way to make the Platform have more than one folder to look for PortableApps.

Example: One PortableApps Folder is on drive C: and another Folder on the USB stick.

Having the PortableApps menu loaded permenently it would be nice if the menu could recognize the stick and add the Links from the menu there.

I have an SD card that I want to use for cleaning up other computers. Like most SD cards, it has a read-only / write-protected switch.

When I start the portableapps.com menu when it's write-protected, most things work fine until I try to exit the menu. Then I get errors about "unable to write to \PortableApps\portableapps.com\data\portableappsmenu.ini". The errors don't stop, and it seems no matter how many times I click "OK" or hit the close button, the program never realizes that it can't write to the drive.

Is there some configuration option I need to set here?

I would like to be able to change the route of the default folders that comes with portableapps.

Right now "Pictures" "Music" and "Videos" are inside "Documents" folder, and they can't be moved or rename because them the link from the interface will not work.
It would be nice to be able to change the default route, or even better link to buttons to any folder you want and also be able to rename them.

Thanks

Hi : I can no longer launch the portable apps platform. The launcher , by which I mean the "start portable apps.com" icon, a 145kb .exe file, for the portable apps platform no longer works. It gives me the usual gui shape but all the applications icons are replaced with plain text "lblportable app 0x".
I get an error message that says "Cannot open file "D:\Portable apps platform\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\Graphics\MenuButtons\button_close_normal.png". The system cannot find the file specified".

When I start up the platform it always takes quite a while before the list of apps shows up.

I do have a fair lot of apps installed on a 32GB USB stick with quite a lot of other data too. Any way I can speed this startup up?

I think this is a feature modification or, arguably, a bug report, really.

When attempting the download of a bunch of apps, one of which throws an error, the downloader stops and awaits input. There's only one form of input that's possible, which is the inevitable acceptance of failure of that attempt to download that app.

Is it necessary to await this perfunctory input before proceeding? I think a lot of people might, like me, want to specify the apps to download, go (especially if they're on a slow-ish like, like me) for dinner and come back to find most of the apps have arrived.