PortableApps.com Platform

Hey. I need some help. When I plug in my MP3 Player into the computer. PortableApps doesn't automatically start. It ends up prompting me to do an action, like any other USB device. What can I do so it can just start up the menu? Because in properties it doesn't list the PortableApps option, like when I plug it in.

Hello everybody,

first big thanks to John and all the people who develop these great applications, which helped me in taking most of my data and programms with me to manage my life and work at university. Please keep up this incredible and perfect work.

Theres one option I personally miss in the built-in backup function of PAM.

Hi,
I am shortly going to me moving from a 2gb Cruzer Titanium to an 8gb IronKey Personal, can I just drag my PortableApps stuff over to the new key or do I have to start again and re-install?

Thanks in advance :-0

i have an 8gig well, 7.49 according to windows, flash drive with portable apps menu it states i have 6.9gig free of 7gig i have 600 mb of apps installed. any fix

I got a 1Gb drive free from uni, and thought I’d install the standard suite, having only used custom installs before on smaller capacity drives. The drive was pre-formatted, and the install went fine, and all seemed to be working until I tried to use it on another computer. Then the autoplay in XP took forever, and it wouldn’t load, allow me into any folders as everything resulted in a computer slow down. I remembered reading that the standard suite worked well on 2 Gig drives, so I formatted my drive, yet now can’t use it at all and can’t even format it again.

i hate U3 really i despise U3 but ... there is 1 feature that i like the virtual cd drive i formatted u3 off my drive and my friends ... needless to say he changed his mind so had to reinstall it i was expecting not to have the virtual cd drive and him having to manually autoplay but no it was there. so it should be possible to create an open source variation for the portable apps menu who knows maybe in the near future we'll see USB drive sporting a built in collection of software from this site.

My USB stick has thrown a corrupt file at me. Luckily it's only one file, and after failing to delete the folder it was in, I just renamed the folder and reinstalled the app. Hopefully in this way I can delay reformatting the stick and reinstalling from a complete backup for a few days (though I plan to do so).

However, when I come to do my next backup, will it crash out when it hits the corrupt file, or will it skip it and continue to backup everything else?

Just downloaded the latest versions of thunderbird, firefox,
clamwin and vlc from portableapps. As soon as I doubleclick
one of these exe-files my firewall tells me, that explorer.exe wants an outgoing connection with remoteaddress: s9.addthis.com. And then the window to install the application opens.

So far, I never got this message about a connection to s9.addthis.com - also checked it again with an older version of the same programs. Just with the new ones it happens...

Is it possible to remove the Music and Video folders from the main PortableApps menu? Unlike the app shortcuts, they don't disappear when you refresh icons after deleting the actual folders from the drive.

On the menu, if you have many applications, an up and down arrow appears.

Is there any reason this cannot do the same thing as the page buttons do, instead of the up and down arrow keys?

It'd be better so that when you pressed the up/down arrow, it moved up/down a page, rather than 1 item.

Is there any reason why this could/should not be done?

I'd really like to see this.