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What is that search box at the bottom of the menu for (in Beta 5)?

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Submitted by Jason404 on February 11, 2011 - 3:47pm

I thought I'd check out Beta 5.

At first glance it does not seem to use much more memory and seems quite stable.

But what is that search box for at the bottom, when you click on the drive capacity information?

I was hoping it would work similarly to the Windows (Vista onwards) start menu search box, but it does not seem to do anything.

Font/ClearType in 2.0 beta 5

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Submitted by Cheetah on February 8, 2011 - 8:21pm

I've noticed that the fonts in the 2.0 beta 5 menu uses font smoothing, but not ClearType, just the grayscale smoothing. Except in context menus, where it does use ClearType.

This is a) strange and b) looks quite blurry on an LCD, esp. the bold font used for favorite apps.

(Using Windows 7 Professional)

A request

Submitted by Devildevilscle on February 7, 2011 - 2:24pm

Though i've read most of the topics, i just want to state what i like pa platform v2 be:
1.a customizable menu, where people like us who have a lot of apps could group apps and arrange the apps/icons by how i want it to be. A 2-pane menu GUI would be nice, though it should'nt be too wide. Or atleast, aside from simply scrolling down the apps on the menu, how about a tab or something like that.

2. A stay-on-top and stay-visible function so that i dont have to write on ini file.

Automatic/Scheduled Backup Feature Request

Submitted by Iislsdum on February 5, 2011 - 11:52am

A feature I would like to see in the next release of the platform is automatic and/or scheduled backup. I use PortableApps on my USB key, and know that they have a short lifespan, and tend to die within a few months. I think a backup scheduler would be useful to those of us with USB keys. Thanks in advance!

Password Protection

Submitted by rockyray85 on February 3, 2011 - 5:45am

Hi,

Seeing as I would want to use Firefox Portable, I would also like to protect the saved passwords in case the flash drive gets lost/stolen.
Is it possible to password protect the PortableApps platform? specifically the PortableApps folder?

Thanks,

Rocky

[Fixed] java portable installer size calculation wrong?

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Submitted by Simeon on February 2, 2011 - 5:52pm

Today I wanted to update the commonfiles java to the latest version. I had 53 mb free space on my drive and the java folder was about the same size.
I run the installer but it told be I didn't have enough space to install it. I deleted the java folder inside CommonFiles and I had 123 mb free space. The java installer needs 105 mb so now I could install it.

Shouldn't the installer subtract the installed file size correctly when it does its calculations or does that not work with plugins in non-standard places like CommonFiles?

[Closed] mysterious platform crash (Stack Overflow)

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Submitted by Simeon on February 2, 2011 - 5:00pm

Today I updated 3 of my apps and when I clicked the platform icon in my sys tray (Win XP SP3), it made that "blonk" error sound and the icon disappeared. I restarted it and everything was normal.
The same happened several times during the last months when I uninstalled an app.

I know this is one of those incomplete error reports no dev likes but I cant say anything else.

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