PortableApps.com Platform

Hi all ,

First of all , thank you very much for this wonderful platform , but I have noticed some lacks and some things that are needed to be added.

My main concern is that , I have already installed other portanble applactions like Adobe Photoshop Portable , RealPlayer Portable , Yahoo! Messenger portable and others ...so my main concern here Am I able to add these programs to the PortableApps.com platform menu?

Hi all,

I'm finally back to the portableApps world after several months of inactivity.
I just downloaded and installed the latest 1.1 PortableApps suite.

As I'm blind I work with a screen reader (JAWS from Freedom Scientific available at http://www.Freedomscientific.com).
The first thing I noticed launching the PortableApps menu is that my screen reader "sees" absolutely nothing, apparently because of a graphical design.
Could there be a workaround to make this menu and consequently the entire suite accessible for blinds ?

I was under the impression that PortableApps do not leave any traces whatsoever behind on the host machine. I did a little browsing today and found in DocumentsandSettings/myname/localsettins/temp/ many, many folders, and inside those folders were a couple of dll files and a jpeg. The jpeg showed the splash screen of one of my apps. Several of the folders were for Keeppass, several for Firefox, several for Songbird, and I don't know what all else. What are these files that are being left behind? I'm on a W2K machine without administrator rights. Thanks guys.

Hi All,

(My apologies if my search did not pick this up as an existing post.)

I'm never able to fit everything I need on a single external disc. My needs always seems to stay ahead of the available capacity

One solution I use is to put all my music on separate discs depending of the encoding format. Each music disc has it's own music player (XMPlayer/SongBirg/Foobar) installed on it so I don't have to reset paths and preferences etc.

Why do the following portable apps:

KompoZer Portable, BPBible Portable, GIMP Portable, Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition, Mozilla Thunderbird - Portable Edition, AbiWord Portable, Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition, and ClamWin Portable

show up in C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\Applications Data\

in the following way: .clamwin, bpbible, Kompozer, Mozilla (Extensions, Firefox, Sunbird), and Thunderbird?

The following, other, portable applications that I run on the same stick such as:

SIW, JungleDisk Portable, TrueCrypt, XnView and MozBackup

appear in the following way:

I've just installed a bunch of apps on my thumb drive after formatting it. It works fine on my laptop at home. At work, though, it runs fine the first time, but after that I can't click on any of the application buttons. The menu is visible, as is the right-click menu on the systray icon, but I can't actually do anything with the menu, beyond the first click.

Right now, I'm starting the app by double-clicking on z:\papps\startportableapps.exe.

Any hints or suggestions?

Thanks,

Jeff

It could be a good feature, changing your desktop my documents folder to your portableapps.com my documents folder, and back again after you are done.

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Can anyone explain if it is possible to use something like EjectUSB with the ejection button with the Mod Menu? I would like to use something else than the windows ejection. If it is possible can some give me the step how to do it. Thanks.

Could you add a way to start the PortableApps menu minimized (such as with a command-line /minimized switch)?

This would allow us to, for example, place a shortcut into winndows startup, and not have to manually minimize the app each time windows starts.

Is there any way to install/upgrade many portable apps in one single operation from the PortableApps start menu?

I have got quite a few apps on my USB stick now, and it is a bit tedious to install or upgrade them one by one.

I have tried to find some info about this in the forum but to no avail.
Feedback would be most welcome.