PortableApps.com Platform

how do i donwload the software to a USB drive using a mac for use on my windows pc at work? Thanks.

I have been having problems getting PortableApps to run on W8. It will not run at all off the memory stick and when I try to run off the hard disk I get a message stating that the application failed to start because it's side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

I also get the following messages in the event log...

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Users\h\Desktop\Portable Apps\Start.exe".Error in manifest or policy file "C:\Users\h\Desktop\Portable Apps\Start.exe" on line 1. The attribute nAme is not permitted in this context on element assemblyIdentity.

could I have a link for the older version of the platform, e.g. 1.6 and 2.x

thanks

I am the sole user of the PC, am part of the Administrators group, and am running Vista SP2. I added CamStudio to my list of apps, and it downloaded and installed correctly. It can be run successfully from the installation.

However, I have tried 3 times to use PortableApps to update it, when it showed that an update was available. Each attempt has failed with the same error. As soon as the download is finished, and installation begins, it stops immediately with the message "Can't initialize plugins directory. Please try again later."

Hi, I have The PortableApps.com Platform 10.0.1 installed on my 2nd hard drive (I do this so I don't have to do full installs for infrequently run apps, thus minimizing the size of my registry).

When I run the backup utility for this locally installed copy of The PortableApps.com Platform, it begins by backing up its own PortableApps directory, and then attempts to backup the local drive (D:) itself (at which point it just hangs). Is this a limitation / bug in the PortableApps.com software ?

Thanks,
phay

Dell M6600 Laptop
Win 7 Professional 64-bit, SP1
Intel i7 Quad Core

If I open PA by hitting ctrl+alt+space and then typing "th" to highlight Thunderbird, it sometimes produces a chinese karacter in place of the "t".

It's not reproducible on demand, but it did happen multiple times today.

My Windows language is English, locale is Dutch, and keyboard is US-international. There are no East-Asian IME's installed on my system. In fact, Dutch+US-int is the only input installed. And I'm using a regular run-of-the-mill US+Euro keyboard.

Hello,

I am using many Beta Apps from the Beta-Applications Page (https://portableapps.com/development/test).

Today I started MP3Tag and I received an update message form MP3Tag (MP3Tag told me that there is a new version is available).
So I checked just some of my beta apps and saw that many of them have been updated (like FreeFileSync, Screenshot Captor, Lazarus).

In the forum topics of many beta apps I asked to release the app as a official portable version (so they update automatically).
But nothing happened.

I would pay $300 for a feature to allow custom launching of apps. Here is how it would work from the Portable Apps Menu:

1. On the Apps button there would be an option, Add Command Line App
2. Choose the icon, or it would default to some built in icon.
3. Choose the name to appear on the menu
4. Choose the exe location on the USB Drive
5. The item would be added to the menu

I need to be able to run two separate portable stacks off two different drives. It works, but the icons are identical and I have to use the mouseover to check which stack I'm invoking when switching tasks or adding another running program.

Is there any way to set/change the tray icon color, say, to match the scheme chosen for the launcher it's attached to?

Thank you.

All of a sudden all of the added categories I had created disapeared and all recatagorized programs went to the other category. Now when I create a new category or recategorize a program, and close and reopen Portableapps The new settings are not saved. "HELP"