PortableApps.com Platform

On Aug 8, wk said:
so I´ve found the solution:
the menu.exe seems to read the default theme.ini for the standard settings -> I´ve changed the ini under app buttons from FontName=Tahoma to Font=Tahoma and it works.
Seems that the coding for the fonts is Font=.., not FontName=.

Actually, the same [AppButtons] FontName problem exists in the default theme.ini file under the following sections:

• [MenuButtons]
• [OpenMenuButtons]

Also change those two sections from "FontName=Tahoma" to "Font=Tahoma".

Jim

Hi all

My autorun recently got deleted and I am trying to remember how I wrote it!

I have a file "autorun.ini" in my root dir with


[Autorun]
Open=PortableApps\StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
Icon=PortableApps\StartPortableApps.exe
Label=PortableApps.com


But the run potable apps icon doesnt show up in the options prompt at all!
I cant see whats wrong, I could understand if it was there but didnt work properly....

I get this error on 1 of my computers:

"The portableappsmenu.exe file is not a valid portableapps.com release and cannot be launched."

how do i fix that? it works fine on School computers and my vista laptop, but not my XP desktop.

Is there a way to add files to the portable apps menu that are located on the local machine and not on the thumb drive?

I would like to have a command to change the windows theme, in a similar process than in the wallpaper switch...

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!