PortableApps.com Platform

Hi!

I am trying to make TeXnicCenter portable (and make it work with miktex-portable), I have managed to make it start just fine, but since it saves most of the settings to registry I have stumbled upon problems.

The registry key values has directory paths such as:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ToolsCenter\TeXnicCenter\Profiles\LaTeX => PDF]
"LatexPath"="C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\miktex\\bin\\pdflatex.exe"
"BibTexPath"="C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\miktex\\bin\\bibtex.exe"
"MakeIndexPath"="C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\miktex\\bin\\makeindex.exe"
...

Hello, I tried to search out more information on my particular isssues to no avail. I downloaded/installed Portable Apps and must have goofed it up somehow, or still need to do something, or its corrupted by me..? OR need more instruction on operation/functioning. On install, I created a new folder (PORTAPPS) which it all resides in (inside the Virtual Expander file), and the "start portable apps" circled arrow doesn't launch any programs within, it just has a LONG error message can not find: -WW/PORTAPPS blah blah..... (which i could post).

At this time I use one (1) external HDD to run PortableApps. I need to expand the disk space. I have two (2) more external HDD on which I would like to store Media such as Pictures and Music.

Is it possible to use three (3) separate external disk drives, where one contains the primary "PortableApps" menu, and the other two (2) drives contain the Documents and Media?

In other words, can I specify the directory or drive which the PortableApps menu uses as the Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos directories?

Thanks in advance,

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.