PortableApps.com Platform

SplashTime=<until application is up and running>

Sometimes apps take quite a while to startup. This time is also variable depending on whether they are running in live mode, speed of flash drives, etc.

It would be really helpful for the SplashTime parameter to support the ability for the splash to stay up until the application is visible or just about to be visible.

D.

No auto minimize when start an application

Hello,

I hope this was not suggested before, but I do not have time to read all posts with "minimized" in the search results

I would appreciate an option to set if the Portable Apps Menu will automatical minimize to tray or not after a program was started.

Thanks
Peter

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Typo in portableapps.com header file?

Each and every page I try here suddenly displays a line with the word »or« at the top! This is in the page source:

Or <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

A typo when changing a site header file?
Or some hijacking going on?

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personalized folders

on the right side of the current portable apps platform, theres a list of folders:
-documents
-music
-videos
-pictures

(not in that order XD)

i was wondering if it were possible for the platform to have the ability of allowing the user to add folders to that list.

like lets say the user has a folder on there drive called "stuff", the person could change the menu of folders to include a link to "stuff"

Call user defined (batch) scripts during startup and shutdown

Hello!

Would it be a big deal to call user-defined scripts during startup and closing portableapps.com?

I'm thinking about looking if a specified batch file (for example startup.bat or shutdown.bat) exists in the Data folder.
If it doesn't exist, skip this point.
If it exists, execute the batch file before going on as usual.

Thils will give the user a possibility to define whatever he wants to do during startup or shutdown of portableapps.com without bothering you with "i need this new feature!!".

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Global Environment Variable Possible?

I would like to set an environment variable globally when PortableApps.exe starts so that all portable apps can use it.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
D.

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Download and auto keep updated complete suite - means all available apps?

Is there a simple way like [illegal portable software sites removed by mod JTH] provide it???

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feature request for portableApps Menue.

OK i have a few feature requests i think that would help improve the usability of paf menu.

1. group by category: add a view feature to "Options" to list the apps according to their types e.g. all security apps get listed under the name Security, all utility apps get listed under the heading Utilities etc. might have to add category to the paf format so that the app builders can add the category to the code. Then add code to the paf platform to read the categories and for the grouping. this should be easy :).

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Windows 98

Using the 'eject' feature, the PortableApps tool just quits without even removing the device (nor do programs recieve any removal messages/request)
If I remove the device using Windows, it cannot be removed (seems the PortableApps tool does not support this?)
It's a Windows 95/98/ME Mixture OS, where handling device removal is really easy compared to Windows XP. But as Windows XP is not Win9x compatible, and Win9x does not support all XP features, but I hope this issues will be fixed.
And yes, device removal definitely works on this Win9x OS!

Program Icons

All of my program icons in the left pane are too large (?) and only the upper left quadrant of the icon shows, not the nice full mini icons as pictured on the home page. This makes them hard to identify. Anyone else have this issue or a resolution?

I searched, but found no problem like this. I'm running XP pro SP3 w/ WS monitor @ 1920 x 1080.

Thanks;
Sarris

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