PortableApps.com Platform

Can you get the platform to start up as soon as you conect your portable hard drive? Or do you have to go and find it each time?

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Hello,

i want to use the option:
"Show All With Categories - Favorites listed first. All other apps by category".

Unfortunalelly this option doesnt work. The categories are shown, but the favorites are NOT shown. What can I do?
My PortableAppsMenu.ini includes:

[DisplayOptions]
Language=English
LargeFonts=False
HideDesktopIcons=False
UseCategories=True
ShowAllApps=True
ExpandCategoriesByDefault=False
DisableScrollBar=False
HidePortableInAppNames=True
DisableSplashScreens=False
Theme=BeveledDark
ThemeColor=Blue
ThemeCustomColor=
StartPositionHorizontal=Right

Hello,

Admittedly it's been awhile since I installed PA last and as mentioned in my earlier post this is my first experience with the Platform. But my recollection is that the suite was more or less a single install. I love the concept of a custom suite, but I selected ~80 apps to include, and now it's going through 80 separate installation routines. Is that normal? Or did I do something wrong?

I'm just now using the new PA.c Platform for the first time, so I apologize if this is something that's already been covered. I could not find it in the forums.

I think the new Platform and AppStore idea is terrific, and I liked being able to customize my own suite. I'm wondering now whether there is a function within the platform to let me export my Suite to a text or xml file so that I could then load it on another computer and get the exact same suite (or send it to a friend who's not already familiar with PA and say, "start with these".

Hi guys,
i need some help, i've downloaded PA application and have installed it on my HDD Portable, but when i put the usb in my pc it wont start the Platform, but make me choose between various option, but not PortableApps Platform.
I need that when i put in my HDD it will start the Platform automatically.

Hope i was clear and sorry for my bad english.
Thx a lot

Hi everyone! I have discovered this project just three days ago, but I found myself deeply interested into learning to left all my computers only with the fantastic Portable Apps Platform and their open source perspective.

I made two copies of the Java directory in two different Portableapps folder. Changing the settings in one location is changing the settings in another location too !
If its portable, the settings should be different for each and changing one shouldn't apply to the other.

I understand it uses registry, both using the same locations possibly. But there should be a way the settings are saved portably and not overwrite each other. How to achieve this ?

Hello.

I was wondering if there were any plans for PortableApps platform to support computers with unusually low resolutions.

I have a UMPC that has a native resolution of 800x480, and I've noticed that the launcher window as well as the update select window is too tall to fit the screen. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't have the ALT+Drag feature that window managers on Linux have, so I can only pull the window up by the title bar and I still can't reach the buttons below in the updater window.

I have installed the latest PortableApps.com Platform Pre-Release 3 to a Windows XP machine.

C:/PortableApps

I'm going to be using it for as much as I can. So what Safe Portable App-ing Rules Apply when Installed to Hard Drive?

1) Do I have to treat it like a virtual flash Drive?

2) Do I have to hit the Eject button before shutting the computer down?

3) Since there is no flash Drive light to monitor how do I know if its safe to shut the computer down? Is there a Flash Drive light emulator? lol