PortableApps.com Platform

Hi,

First, thanks to you all who made portableapps.com such a wonderful piece of software!

I've been eagerly waiting for the 2.x platform in order to keep my apps up2date automatically. However things don't work as expected in my environment:

We've got a rather stringent policy in place that restrict .exe-files of being executed only from certain locations. Googling my way around I found that the auto-updater ("check for updates") in the portableapps suite seems to download the updates so some subdir of %TEMP% then trying to install it from there.

I have a lot of apps installed in the Platform, and love it. Problem is, that for apps I use rarely, I can't always remember from the cryptic names what they do. It would be helpful to have a pop-up tooltip describing the applications functions briefly when I hover over the app name. Preferably it would be customizable also. Thanks.

PA 2.2.1: I'm trying to hide the task bar icon as desribed in the doco. It doesn't seem to work.

In this case, I am running PA from the HDD not a USB message stick. (C:\PortableApps) on Windows 7 Pro 64bit.

I have a shortcut to C:\PortableApps\start.exe 'pinned' to the task bar. When I run it, I end up with 2 PA Icons in the task bar (the pinned shortcut and the running program icon) and another in the tray.

Other than that, I can't find fault with the new platform. Looks great!

I've been using portable apps on a USB drive for years. Only recently did I find out about portableapps as a wrapper.

I really liked the simplicity it offers, and I don't have to navigate through folders, etc. etc.

Only problem I'm having, is that a LOT of the apps I downloaded thru portableapps refuse to run in a 64bit win7 environment.

I have tried running the portableapps exe as well as the individual program exe's run in xp compatibility to no avail.

Please I would like it if on right click it would take me to the file location on the hard disk drive.

thanks

Just wanted to report that in the "Check for updates" window, when it lists which are available to you, if you try to order the list by size it gets ordered alphabetically, like this:

1 MB
10 MB
15 MB
19 MB
150 MB
2 MB
21 MB
3 MB

I believe it should be ordered by the size itself, shouldn't it? Not very useful the way it is...

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I would like to have all the application help files be local, rather than having a local html file with links back to portableapps.com. I often use portableapps when I don't have internet access. Thanks.

I really appreciate all the great work done here. 10/10.

Can someone please let me know steps to upgrade/igrate to PortableApps platform "2.0 Pre-Release 2" from 1.6.1 ?

Does installing PR2 over the 1.6.1 installation will make platform migrated to PR2 ?

Thanks a lot,
Shabeer

Anyone know the source of the 'Document' folder icons?

Not the ones in the App itself, but the ones installed to give the Documents folder and it's children the polished look...

The ones stored in PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\Graphics\WindowsFolderIcons

I'd like to add a few folders to the documents folder and would like to see if I can't find/create icons that fit the theme.

I did try a google search and the site's search and didn't seem to come up with any relevant info.

Thanks!

Is there a way to set up the Portable Apps launcher to point to a specific (different) location for the Documents, music, and other pre-programmed buttons?