PortableApps.com Platform

Was not able to find request so writing it down here, merge it if needed.
One of the most annoying things in Platform - is too many unneeded confirmations.
For ex. I need to click all the time to update all apps (never skipping updates) and then check that they are updated and specifically click "Finish" on an empty screen.
Will be great to introduce completely silent updates or at least remove unneeded confirmation to close the updater.
Solution could be in one or 2 checkboxes.

The Portable App Directory lists "FastStone Capture via fscPortable" at the end of the "Games" category, out of alphabetical order and in the wrong category, instead of in the correct "Graphics and Pictures" category.

Respectable PortableApps Forum I want to make a question:

After having installed all the apps I have noticed that one of the app that I had thought that was installed was missing. Now my question is : Is there a way to know if all the apps are installed or must I try manually every app? In practice I want to know if all the apps of this suite are installed without trying every app manually to see if it is present..

Sorry to have disturbed, thanking all that want to answer to this post, I salute all the Community.

I am a long term user of Portable Apps. Its solved lots of problems for me. Over years I have used it more and more.

The menu is nice but I'm finding it now a bit overloaded with apps. I want to split it into two separate independent systems. One for normal apps. One for zillions of small utilities.

My question: Can you reliably run two instances of the PA platform simultaneously? If so, how?

Regards, Bea Bonobo

May 4rd I had to reboot my Windows10 due to a system update on May 3rd and found that I suddenly couldn't launch several portable apps because they reported the following:

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.

This only affected the launchers, if I tried the main executables, these would run without a problem.

Among the affected launchers were 7-Zip, Notepad++ and several others (didn't make notes of all of them but these two I use almost daily so they were the most important to me.)

I get this error rather infrequently. This occurs in 16.0 and 16.0.1.

Error

Is it possible to disable certain offered updates?
For example I use version 11 of TeamViewer commercially and have paid about $1,500 for that privilege. While free version users would have no qualms about upgrading, for me it would be very expensive. Since version 11 provides for all my needs I will not be upgrading. At this time version 11 can still be downloaded but with time, it will go away making it critical that I not accidentally update. Your thoughts?

So, I don't know why I didn't experience this on my flash drive, but it happened on my external hard drive. Not sure why.

I can't recall, but doesn't the Platform installer force the running Platform closed? It didn't do that and threw itself into a loop. Had to use Task Manager to quit (neither would allow me to).

No big deal, I just downloaded the new Platform installer manually. And, that worked perfectly.

I couldn't figure out why the platform coudln't update itself so I went to manually download the update. Seems the site is being blocked by our security - claiming a threat. Anyone else getting this? It is calling out download3.portableapps.com -- "blocked based on Cisco Security threat research" ... if you are not aware Cisco bought opendns.org. Not sure if this is some kind of false positive or not. Hoping it is, trying to reach out to our security guys for more info.

This is new, not sure if it's a bandwidth thing, but on a 100 MBit connection I'm getting update speeds of 43.5kb/sec on app updates.

I don't know if it's because I'm in UK or what, but as user of portable apps for the last 10+ years it seems a little odd. Has something changed?