PortableApps.com Platform

I started using PortableApps some time around 2007 I think, but I never really used USB flash drives that much until relatively recently (for work). Now that I have rediscovered PA, I have realised that they can also be used with my synced folder, which I use for all my other portable apps, command line programs, shells, scripts, etc. So I have found just how incredibly useful PortableApps portable apps are.

I have not started making any of my own portable apps, but I am going to start doing so.

hello
can be nice to create folder or tree structure or something like this to organize the menu
it will make easy to find an application with a such organization

regards

Search turned up a 3 year old thread, so I thought I'd ask it again:

Is there any way to resize the Portable Apps Menu?

Currently, it displays 20 apps and the folders and options on the side. I would love to be able to squish it down to about 14 apps (which would leave the folder side untouched) and maybe make it a little more narrow.

Can this be accomplished by any edits?

I'm currently running both the stable 1.6.1.0 platform and Beta 5, alternately, depending on my mood.

Thanks for all the hard work you guys do.

Ahkaine

I'm not sure if this is because of some new Windows update or other software, but the autorun of the startportableapps.exe is no longer working. OS is Vista Home premium 64. It now opens a window asking me what I want to do.

Has anyone else had this problem?

TIA

A key issue with portable apps is of course that file associations are in-fact registry entries on your PC which call up the relevant apps....
i.e what use is winzip portable (only to illustrate the point) if your zip file comes up as a default blank icon and when you click on it nothing happens as there is no program installed on your OS to handle it (only a portable one) and thus nothing indicating this in the registry, even when you have the Portable App Platform running!

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This text does not seem to be included in the theme graphic files, so I was wondering if it was changeable?

If it could be changed to %USERNAME%, that would be really good.

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.

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)

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.

I have a lot of apps installed now, and scrolling with the mousewheel is too slow.

Is it possible to increase the mousewheel scrolling rate?