PortableApps.com Platform

I have been using PortableApps since last 4 years and it has always been a wonderful experience. I setup a new box few weeks back. This is 64bit platform with Windows 7 x64 installed on it.

PortableApps was working for first few days, then it suddenly stopped doing anything. The platform loads on start up, I can see applications but am not able to start any one by clicking on the menu.

PortableApps is opening folders like Documents, Music, Pictures, etc, in an incorrect way.

Not a major issue, but just thought I'd report it here in case one of the dev team want to address the problem (would take 5 seconds).

PortableApps is specifying the "open" verb when it calls ShellExecute(Ex) in response to a click on the Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. links.

From "Get More Apps" menu item, apps will successfully attempt install but don't appear on the Platform when finished. All I get is a pop up window that says "Your new portable apps have been installed and are now available in the PortableApps.com Menu". The apps menu pane is empty. I just bought a new 4GB SanDisk thumb drive, formatted it as FAT32. My OS is Win7/64. I tried turning off MSSE but that didn't help. Restarted PC, reformatted thumb drive, still ng.

I love the updating functionality of the suite, it's the main reason I use it. However there are some applications I don't wish updated, newer isn't always better. VLC2 requires .net, portable browser versions kept for web testing, and others.

It'd be great if there were an update exclusions list or something that resided in the suite's folder, or depending on how the update system works, perhaps a flag in the individual app's ini (AppnamePortable.ini) files.

Not saving my personal settings. Any one else have this problem? I have re installed it twice and every time I eject my hard drive settings go back to new.

I've been using various PortableApps from my C drive without any issue for a long time now. Installing them into a dedicated folder was never a problem.

I've been trying to install the PortableApps Platform but, as soon as I start the installer, I get an error message:

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file"

Since I haven't even had the chance to specify anything, I don't know what it's complaining about.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Raph

Hello all,

PA.com has this great feature where I can find apps by simply starting to type a part of the name.

But I keep bumping into a strange bug.

Always, the first character I type changes into a graphical character, in stead of the letter I typed. PA will then not find anything I am looking for.

If I press a character, a backspace, and then the letters to search, it will find what I am looking for.

Anyone here who experiences the same issue, or perhaps even have a solution for this ?

I must be missing something here... But what is the new hotkey in PA 10.0.1? It used to be win+alt+space, but that doesn't work anymore. Is there a place where I can set or enable some hotkey? Thanks.

At one time, I was able to find, on the PortableApps website, a PortableApps Bundle that contained many of the most useful apps that I could download as a package and install to my thumbdrive. Do you still offer this bundle, or do I now have to download each app individually?

I have an XP Pro machine, (and others) with separate partitions, and relocated personal folders. For example, D:\My Documents. Obviously, my My Pictures, and My Music are subfolders of My Documents on the XP machine. When installing the portableapps platform on my data drive [D:], which has the path d:\portableapps\ , I told it the location of my portableapps folder is D: So far, so good. However, it has not recognized the My Documents folder, and created just D:\Documents, which is the target of the "Documents" icon on the portableapps menu.