PortableApps.com Platform

Okay, I did something stupid. I thought I'd give portableapps.com Suite a try as a new user on a new flash drive.

1) I downed the suite, all 100+ MB
2) Plugged in the new Flash (yes, I erased all files on it first)
3) Invoked the Suite installer and of course it asked where did I want to install.
4) Found Drive D of the 1GB size (I thought, great) and installed
5) Only after I pulled the flash out did I find that the plug contacts were broken off inside the flash housing (I wondered why its light didn't blink during install)

Sorry everyone, I am very new to this, but I am having trouble with the custom background image in the Pictures folder on the flash drive. I chose the image I wanted and renamed it to "portableapps_wallpaper.bmp" Now for some reason I can load the image on ANY Vista OS but not on XP Home and Pro. I get a solid color screen on XP. I have tried multiple images and I made sure I tried .JPEG and .BMP extensions, (yes I changed the extension suffix, not the file name).

Whenever I try to run portableapps from the dialog that pops up on inserting the USB disk I get a message that start.exe cannot be found.

Is start.exe supposed to be in Windows itself or on the portableapps disk?

Hi

I was trying to manually get rid of an irritating virus on my pen drive, and accidentally deleted PortableAppsMenu.exe. I do not have a back up to restore from. I tried reinstalling the Platform using the platform download but the menu does not recognise any of my existing apps. Is there any way I can get menu to recognise my existing apps, without having to download and install them all over again?

There are two ways you can hide app icons in the menu.

The first way, is to get mod patched 34

The second is to make the *.exe file hidden. To do this, right click on the *.exe you don't want to show up in the menu and make sure "hidden" is checked.

Hope This Helps!

Tried to install Portable Apps Standard on a Corsair Surviver 32Gb.
I stopped the installation after 2hours at

I keep getting errors when I exit the portable apps menu when I mount my USB drive as read-only. My work PC is running PGP desktop and is configured to encrypt any USB drive, or mount it read-only. Since I would like to use the USB drive on other computers, I mount it RO. The applications work fine - Firefox recognizes that it's running from a RO media and offers to copy itself to a temporary location on the hard drive.

I'm an enthusiastic user of PortableApps and I'm trying to get a better understanding, in simple terms, of how the system works. The "What is a portable app?" page appears self-explanatory for a single app program but it's only after reading bits and pieces of various threads that I get the impression that personal data may be left behind if a PortableApp is not used within the integrated PortableApps menu.

I love this software and use it all the time, but is it possible to apply a different skin to it, even if it is just color options like black or blue?

Hello, I like your software. But how to create sub folder in a menu for classifiate my portable software and how to change the order?