PortableApps.com Platform

Hi, folks!

I just absolutely love PortableApps, and am eagerly awaiting the newest 2.0 release (beta or stable) I am currently using the 2.0 Beta 5 Pre 2 release. I have almost all of the PA.c programs installed (though I don't use all of them, I'd like to try them, y'know?), as well as several other natively portable apps.

Within the last few days, the PA platform has stopped reading the .exe files of a handful of non-PA.c apps that it used to read just fine.

Based on John's Happy New Year message, posted of January 1,2011, this should be the week that the 2.0 platform should be released to the public.

"We'll be following that with 1 or 2 more betas and then the 2.0 final release later this month. Yes, you read that right. The 2.0 final release later this month... or within a week thereof... just to be safe. :)"

I can hardly wait.

I am filling up my stick with the new app releases.

Bob

There is a nice feature in PortableApps to have an application Start Automatically when PortableApps starts.

I'd like to suggest a related feature: the option to have an automatically started app shutdown on PortableApps exit.

If it helps, I'm specifically thinking about KeyPass Portable. I have it start automatically and go to the system tray. I can always shut it down manually before exiting PortableApps, but it'd be nice to have it stop automatically.

[If this has been discussed before, I apologize. I did a search and didn't find anything.]

I almost gave up on this menu but am looking forward to the new features. Hopefully it won't be too much longer but i do know that when it's done it'll be done right!

I've tried almost every type of portable menu i could find some have better features but only one came close to stability. That was CodySafe. But i prefer PA.com to that

Now for some suggestions, which i understand won't be implemented til some future version!

1. I'd like to see the menu have an option to change to a dockable bar. Like Advanced Launcher, with all it's features.

Ok so I have recently downloaded the 2.0 beta and I was wondering how i add a theme to the themes list that I can choose from

Why i cant find Google Earth as a Portable Apps and how can i schrink it in a to a Portable Apps and make it run from my Portable Apps launchpad?
I can only copy the file from the Program Files list from the computer and paste the file on my USB stick and make it run from my USB stick but the set up file dous not alow me change the destination folder when i want to instal Google Earth!
I can get the Google Earth icon in my launchpad but if i want to run the program from my launchpad it doesnt work somehowe i can not make it run from my launchpad on my USB stick!

Hello everyone,

Chris Morgan said here that

"For the individual apps, PortableApps\AppNamePortable\AppNamePortable.exe is what you need to launch. However, this doesn't replicate the environment set up by the Platform; the Platform adds some environment variables"

Does this mean that PortableApps users will be forced to use PortableApps menu to make application work ?

BACKGROUND:
I started using PortableApps around 2006/2007, when I got my first USB flash drive, but I never got around to using them much, as I don't really carry a flash drive around with me. Instead, I have my own ultracompact ThinkPad wherever I go.

But I have recently rediscovered PortableApps and realised that they work very well with my system of syncing my 'command' directory on all my machines. This contains all my scripts and command line programs, Cygwin, and now also having a lot of portable applications in there is proving very useful indeed.

QUESTION:

Does anyone know if the new menu 2 final will have groups in it?

I am running 2.0 beta and love it and also have so many apps on the menu tis getting very long.

Thanks

after using OO port from portable apps menu and closing program, cannot re-launch any OO module (from PA.c menu or directly from disk module exe file) until after a system reboot. using Vista home basic w/sp2, OOP v3.2.0, on Acer Extensa 5230. Doesn´t matter if I re-open PA.c menu from tray or completely close PA.c then re-start it OOP modules will not start again until after a re-boot. I just tried using a direct launch from module exe, and multiple starts appears to be a problem only if the program has been launched from PA.c menu.