PortableApps.com Platform

This is the Situation (especifictly With GoogleChrome - Now and Then "G.C.").
1. I want a StandAlone Portable G.C. distribution.
2. I downloaded the Portable online Installer - and Executed;
I Choose an folder to Deploy it. Wait that the installer (Stand alone G.C.
installer) get downloaded, uncompressed and installed (portable version).
3. Then I Compress the Folder where I Deployed the Portable G.C. distribution,
and Optionally I Make a Auto-Extract version of that Folder.

Now if I want UPDATE an existing Portable G.C. installation... I just

I have used TeamViewer Portable several times, it runs well although with frequent disconnection, however I think that it is caused by the bad internet connection.

Now, I want to use the VPN facility, unfortunately that the software require installation of its driver.
Is there any solution to avoid installing the driver?

Update on 20 September 2011:
My conclusion is: There is no such thing like portable TeamViewer for VPN service.

I was hoping to install many of the apps on the HD of my brand new notebook (i7 running win 7 premium) but I'm having trouble getting past the same error, whether using portapp platform (beta or stable release, same error) as well as individual apps. Was originally trying to install under/program files (x86) but even installing under less restrictive areas of the HD makes no difference...
FWIW, I ran this silly MS app and it reports no probs http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall

The update cannot be downloaded error free. After about 45% downloading stops.

Would it be possible to update the same portable app in more than one subfolder of \PortableApps\?

Some people may be intereseted in having:

\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable4Google
\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable4Yahoo
\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable4Microsoft
\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable4Banking

for different browser environments each with different plugins, passwords, settings.

The same for Thunderbird, Chrome, etc.

Could it be possible for PA Updater to scan all (four in this case) folders and update FF6.0.1 to FF6.0.2 in all folders?

Would it be possible to use a local folder as a cache for .paf.exe files?

I.e. PAUpdater wants to update FF6 and it cannot find it in "\\server\paf" so it downloads it from sf.net and saves it in "\\server\paf" then runs the updated PAF exe from "\\server\paf".

This could be a single entry in PAU.ini

LocalCacheFolder=\\server\paf
; or c:\paf or ...

And the logic is quite simple:

Any updates on (unofficial) .NET support? Windows 7 seems to be spreading somewhat, depending on where you are, I suppose. (I'm at a university.)

Another couple clarifying questions:
How does .NET differ from Java for portablizing applications? Aren't there a few portable apps like FirefoxPortable that have to use the host's JVM, or am I totally off? Is the only difference for these applications that the JVM is more widespread on XP than .NET? Does this mean that .NET applications could be supported officially when XP becomes less dominant?

Hi,

I wish to have different Autostart profiles. At home all my standard application should start after the platform starts (email, browser, etc.). But if I connect to a foreign pc I don't want to start all applications.

Maybe its possible to define profiles in combination to the hardware id, windows username or similar.

regards,
Marc

Hi
I added a couple of apps to my drive (Chrome and Filezilla) and then ran into trouble updating them (well Chrome anyway, I haven't tried with the other one.)

So I read up a bit and it seemed to me that if I had the PortableApps platform installed, I could update the apps through that.

So I installed the PortableApps platform, and now I can't figure out to add the existing two apps to the Menu of the platform... I don't want to do a clean install as I've customised the browser extensively with plugins etc...

Thanks for any help.

Is there any way to set a specific sourceforge mirror for Updater? The mirror chosen as the nearest geographically is not so “near.”