PortableApps.com Platform

Hi everyone!

I built a fully working version of PortableApps menu translated to french! (without using test.locale)
Does it interests anyone? I think I may start a new SourceForge projets... Am I wrong? Or are you interested in my translation?

Johann

[Moved to the PortableApps Menu forum by moderator JTH]

I use PAM now for a few months and it's simply great. As a lot of people I have some suggestions, of which a few have already been mentioned a lot of times.

• Disable Transparency
• Stick Apps to the top of the list (like in windows xp start menu)
• Group Apps
• Favorites (Apps that should be launched when portable apps starts - could be an icon in the right list)
• Rename Apps
• autoupdate of PAM
• Right Klick on tray symbol shows menu with "start of favorites", "hide/show","close"

How do you shut down the Portable Apps menu? I click the "x" at the bottom of the menu but nothing happens?

how do i put my own skin up?

Here you can preview and download my Themes:
http://www.freewebs.com/jantarctica/pam.htm

Hope you'll like them.

*The PAM themes are based on the ones for XP

Updated April 4,2007
(Cubegames.net hosting site now)

I have been playing around with a Star Trek like theme. I am not going to post the entire theme as I have used some borrowed elements. I also had to lighten up the "official" colors for usability.

Preview:
http://wsm23.cubegames.net/MenuTheme.html
Download:
http://wsm23.cubegames.net/Trekliketheme101.7z

Note: The preview contains copyrighted icons. The theme package has the default PAM icons.

You can find some good free Star Trek Icons:
http://iconfactory.com
http://www.yellowicons.com

When I try to run the menu from a write protected device I get lots of error messages.

Checking with ProcessMmonitor I see that it is trying to create files in the portable apps folders.

Is it possible to stop this?

Chris

I use the memory stick, becouse I do travel very often and have to use the public internet points and internet in hotels. These computers are most of the time set in a way that the Port.Apps.Menu does not start. With explorer.exe it is possible to go to the drive-letter of the stick and start anyway.
Is there a way to start explorer.exe also when the 'my computer'icon is not there?
Like a key-combination or so.
Sometimes even the Windows startmenu is not there. So the possebilety to start explorer.exe in the run menu is also not possible.

I'm having a problem with PAM working on Win2k SP3. I don't have the option of installing SP4 due to other software restrictions. Is this a known problem or is it just me? The error says the actual PAM executable has generated errors and a log will be log will be created. The log isn't created, at least I can't find it in any of the usual locations.

Help would be appreciated. BTW I'm really pleased with this program and the portable apps concept. Its a solution that I've been looking for solution like this for years, and U3 just doesn't cut it.

edit:

Just a suggestion. Would it be possible to have the contents of the drive copied into ram upon inserting the drive? It could be done via ramdrive, but im thinking that any changes will still need to be written to the drive before unmounting. Has anyone discussed this possiblilty? It would make alot of sense if it could be done as it would dramatically increase access times and decrease flash writes.

Upon mounting you could offer an option to mount the drive normally, or mount into system memory so it would still run fine on systems with insufficient memory.