PortableApps.com Platform

Following the example of the Win7 theme plugin, here's one I call "Windows Classic". I am often using RDP sessions, so less colors and color effects is *always* a good thing for speed reasons. This theme is just that: flat and boring, but color-matched to the "Windows Classic" themes.

Find it here.

Released to the public domain, since it's so incredibly simple.

Can somebody comment on why "It's best to install it [portable suite] right to the root directory of your portable drive (X:\ where X is the drive letter).

In particular, I installed the suite not on a stick but in a separate (so non-root) folder/directory of the D\ hard drive partition.

Questions:
First, can I expect the suite behave differently when installed on a HD rather than a USB stick?

Second, does it make a difference whether the suite is installed in the root of HD partition or in its sub-directory/folder? Any side-effects?

Thanks.

Downloaded Portableapps Suite early this week. Everything worked just fine. I left it a couple of days and when I tried again to use Mozilla a security message appeared and I found that I couldn't access sites with SSL encryption. I have restarted, removed excess baggage from my flash drive, re-downloaded PA Suite - to no avail. Any clues?

If I include an 'EULA.txt' in 'Other\Source', when the app is installed (and before first run) I'm getting 'Data\PortableApps.comInstaller\license.ini' which contains

[PortableApps.comInstaller]
EULAVersion=1

Is this the expected behaviour?

Hey,

I run PA from my external hard drive. I'd like to make a complete backup of my PA data with the backup tool, but that will also backup 500gb+ from the entire drive.

Would be nice if I could point to a custom folder and make a complete PA backup that way.

Thank you

PortableAapps.com Platform version: 2.0 beta 1
As I had started the PortableApps.com Platform, the Microsoft Security Essentials froze the application and alerted me of a severe trojan. I don't know why but I didn't expect the PortableApps Platform could be performing trojan style commands and be a serious issue?

I hope someone here could help! I have copied and pasted the details of the trojan: PWS:Win32/Ldpinch.gen

Microsoft Security Essentials - Encyclopedia entry PWSWin32-Ldpinch.gen:

PWS:Win32/Ldpinch.gen

Encyclopedia entry
Updated: Feb 07, 2008 | Published: Feb 04, 2008

Hi.

Would it be possible, in a future release of PortableApps.com platform, to add an option into the PortableAppsMenu.ini file to specify where the "Music" etc links in the menu should point?

Because, I don't like having "Music" and "Videos" inside my "Documents" folder. I'd rather have them side by side in the root of the drive - similar to how Windows Vista and 7 do it. So it would be really useful for me if I could specify the paths to these folders.

Cheers,
Robin.

I have been installing non portable apps to be operated on flash drives for over a year. so using what i already know,i installed video games,browsers,and even citrix wire! So after i installed them,the platform automatically places icons for the new apps installed into the platform memory. From the platform,you can access and operate them like you can with the other apps. No need to creat custom short cuts or anything because the platform does it for you. How does one go about installing alternate apps?

Just installed. Great idea. However, I cannot remove the memory stick. It's constantly in use even after all portable applications are closed. The process portappl remains active (in task manager). When I finally killed the process and tried to close the stick, OS crashed. Any suggestions on removing the USB? Thanks.

Or at least, I think it does...

Whenever I put in my flash drive, it changes to my portable wallpaper, and whenever I go back, it's stuck on the wallpaper it was on when the PortableApps.com platform took over.

It's the only solution I can think of. That, or Windows 7 forgets you have a slideshow set up and randomly stops on one. But then I go into the settings, and it doesn't say I have a slideshow set, just that I have the one it's on.