PortableApps.com Platform

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?

When you start the update process, then you haven't any chance to close the platform by the normal way (like click X from the platform).
Because the updater will delete all the file first, and the platform can't load the graphics.
And when you click abort, then you can't run the updater to fix it anymore, you have to download the installer pack again.

THIS IS A VERY OLD BUG!

I have updated Portable Apps program itself on many occasions. This mornint when I tried to update, I got an error:

Error opening file for writing:
E:\Portable Apps\PortableApps\ortableApps.com\PortableAppsPlatform.exe

This was after it deleted a number of files on its way to updating. I pressed Abort and then I could not run PortableApps at all. It failed with an error:
Cannot open file 'E:\Portable Apps\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\Graphics\Chrome\matte.png'. The system cannot find the path specified.

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PortableApps.com Platform
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Access violation at address 00566CE4 in module 'PortableAppsPlatform.exe'. Read of address 000001D0.
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OK
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Platform: v16.0.1