PortableApps.com Platform

I love portable apps. I seem to get a secondhand computer from friends, get a new one at work, or school every other month so keeping all my data on an external hard disk with most of my major apps has been a life send. I don't usually contribute to free ware causes but if i can get this shaped up there are a few developers out there to whom I would gladly give funding money (what little i could anyway).

Greetings, everyone. I just downloaded and installed PA and some additional apps only to have nothing work. I couldn't believe it!

First Q: the auto start file is supposed to start the portableapps suite when i insert the jump drive right?

Second Q: the wall paper swapper, i cant get it to work, u are supposed to name the picture u want to be the background portableapps_wallpaper.bmp correct? and put it in the pictures directory

please help

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I have 2 small problems with Portable Apps. One, the Menu does not laonch automatically when I insert flash drive. I start it by exploring to the "Start Portable Apps.exe in root of USB drive or by making ashortcut on my computer desktop. 2. One the menu program is running in the Taskbar there seems to be no way of stopping it except by using Ctl-Alt-Delete and ending the application. The "x" in the lower right corner of the menu does nothing. Any suggestions? Thanks

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Well this is my first of hopefully many pa theme's

Please tell me what you think. I know its a bit of a random theme but i havent seen any other ones with zombies lol

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is there anyway to change the size of the menu?

I'm running portable apps on my eeePC and when i start the portable apps, the menu pops-up and occupies alomst half the screen estate. Am hoping to find a way to reduce the size of the menu so that it can fit nicely in a 800x480 puny screen. Thanks!

Well it's been a while since I last created a good theme so I just made this one
so here it is
Preview is at http://thibeaz.com/background.jpg and to download the full theme is at http://thibeaz.com/Theme.7z

Any feedback would be nice

I got bored and wanted to mess around with the menu. Check it out here just put in PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\App\DefaultData\Theme to see what it looks like with your apps, it looks better when the menu uses it. Tell me what you think. I might make more if I get positive feedback.

Portable App standard suite 1.0.exe

Thunderbird link in menu does not open thunderbird.

Tried it on 2 desktops and on a usb will not load. Reinstalled Thunderbird via add new app to get the link to find thunderbird.