PortableApps.com Platform

I've been trying out some apps in the portable apps suite on a laptop and on an USB thumb drive for a while.

Here's some feedback/requests concerning the PortableApps Menu (which perhaps has be said before, but if so might be worth emphasizing):
- option to disable fade out when not focused
- add tray icon context menu with an option to close the menu
- allow minimal mode: no padded red skin, one column of options (only text in small type, no icons) and one column of links to apps. It needn't be much wider than the start button in Win XP really.

I installed a program called Money Manager EX Portable to play around with. It works with zero problems, but the only issue I have is on the menu it has the exact name of the .exe file. The menu also put a link to the uninstaller, so I ended up deleting that .exe and it's .dat file, which fixed that issue.

Screenshot: At the very top of the program list you can see "mmex"
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5585/untitledbt5.jpg

I was just wondering if for the new version in the making, that renaming progams on the menu is possible?

Cheers,
-Sam G

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I've got win2000 sp4.
I've installed v1.0 and the v1.0-1.1 patch.
When I run the StartPortableApps.exe I get an error from Explorer.

Program Error
Portableappsmen.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
You will need to restart the program.
An error log is being created.

Of course I've no idea where this log could be.

Can't see any relevant event viewer log either.

It does work in win2K?

Hello all,

I have added few application (some of them written by me) to the PortableApps directory. Is there any way that I can control which applications show up in the menu?

For example I'm using Opera@USB. The problem is that there are a couple of exe files in the directory and the menu picks all of them up. Is there a config file that can be put in the app directory that can specify what should be obtained and what not?

Another helpful thing would be if one could configure the name of the application via same configuration file.

Thank you in advance.

Not sure if this has been discussed, im new here and didnt see anything offhand, but It would be cool to have a changeable skin for the popup taskbar icon. I'd like to change the color to a blue or black instead of the red...if this is already discussed, please delete this post!

Thanks!
-Ryan

I just noticed today that the drive space bar doesnt work on my Linux PC.
I have a 1GB stick and it shows "302,5Mb free of 323MB". I have ca. 323Mb of free space on this USB drive.
And somehow the menu doest fade away after I clicked on it to launch something.
Just to let you know.

The Autorun.inf file in my USB's root directory does not seem to have an effect on the computers I insert the USB drive into. It does not change the icon for the drive with the one of the PortableApps Menu icon, and the drive doesn't get assigned the label name.

I have tried this mainly on 3 machines and the pattern I'm seeing is that the first time you insert the USB drive into the computer everything shows up ok (meaning the settings are being read from the autorun.inf file), but on subsequent insertions the settings aren't read.

Hello all,

Is there a way to remove the PortableApps.com menu overlay? Clarification: the title bar at the top of the portable apps menu. I have found how to edit the background and icons, however in my search of the portable app package and the forum noone seems to have done this. Let me know if it is possible.

Thanks
-Karl Marx

Hi All.
I install multilang Gimp Portable to my USB stick.
Now I need only two languages (English and Russian).

The size of GIMPPortable folder is 42 625 573 bytes.
Who can tell me witch files I can delete for reduse size?

Thanx.

Thanx for author(s) for this great utility

Why not have it look for "shortcuts" instead of exe's then when a non PA app is found nearby it would just add the shortcut to the menu - much cleaner.

or maybe a "package factory" type util to make other apps PA friendlier?

Aloha,

BigRich