PortableApps.com Platform

I installed the Portable apps Suite and have several suggestions:

1. "Get a new app" should bring up a window that lists the apps from the web site by category that you can drill down too. You tick the apps you want, it lists the amount of space required (and turns red if you don't have enough), it then downloads and installs them automagically.
2. You should be able to check and update portable apps to the latest version.
3. You should be able to set a different browser the Suite uses, I use Opera USB and want any links the Suite opens to use Opera instead.

In the PortableApps.com website Applications page,in the list of applications mentioning Version info will be very helpful to avoid opening of the application for download and finding it as the version already have is time consuming.

Hi Everyone,

I notice when I start Portable Apps, it shows a progress meter that takes somewhere around 2 minutes to complete. Obviously it's reading through all my app directories, right? Is there any way to cache this, or improve it, other than deleting unneeded apps?

Cheers,
Greg

Just to be sure, let me ask this question:

Assuming that one works in adult education and hands out USB sticks to the course participants containing (only) a predefined set of original Portable Apps (unmodified/unrun) plus some course materials in the "Documents" folder.

After the course is finished, the sticks have to be "reset" to a clean state for the next course (sticks are lent to participants for the course duration).

Would it be enough to …

• clean out the "Documents" folder (keeping empty "Music", "Pictures" and "Videos" subdirectories),

Hi all,

I am running PA 1.6.1 from my flash drive which has write protect switch. When I try to eject the flash drive using the eject button in the PA menu, it gives me a error:

Unable to write to K:\Portableapps\PortableApps.com\Data\PortableAppsMenu.ini.

I do not know if this is an issue with my card, with windows 7 x64 or what. If I install the full suite, nothing will run after it is done installing. Windows reports that StartPortableApps.exe is not a valid win32 or win64 file. I look in several of the subdirectories and they are empty. I notice that the PortableApps directory and the documents directory are both set to System and Hidden, and I do not know if that is normal operation. I will be traying the latest beta to see if that is different.

Anyone else have issues with a 32GB micro SD in a USB sleeve?

I was just trying to build an up-to-date portable ImgBurn with full language support (1 main download, 36 [!] separate language files) and found that the PA.c Installer will only allow one download.

For such cases, it would be extremely nice if we could have more than one download (and more than 10, if anyhow possible). ImgBurn’s language files aren’t delivered with the main application but instead in lots of separate (few-hundred-byte) ZIP files.

I need a pin up option when i install/update a lot of program at same time.

I have a suggestion that would seriously benefit the Portable Apps Platform ... why do we have to manually download a whole new installer every time we update our apps? Why can't the platform have an "Auto-update option? Perhaps a nice little menu with checkboxes so users and select what they do or don't want to update at the time ... possibly even a "roll-back" feature, like Windows has for it's drivers.

But of course, that's just what I think about it ... what do the rest of you think: is it a good idea?

On the laptop I’m writing from I use a 20 GB C: drive plus a 40 GB D: drive. Drive C: is almost full (i.e., about 2 GB free) whilst drive D: has about 15 GB free.

Windows’ %TEMP% variable points to

C:\DOKUME~1\username\LOKALE~1\Temp

which is the 8-character name for

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp

Symptom "Backup is SLOW":