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Installing apps on USB stick

Submitted by Matt Jones on November 1, 2018 - 2:21pm

Hi Smile

I'm very intrigued by the possibilities of portable apps on a USB stick, but being a novice, I'm having problems.

On this stick, the PortableApps Platform is on there. The trouble is if I want to put an application on there that isn't in .PAF format, and it's just a ZIP file.

How do I then go about converting it (if necessary) so it can install with the other apps on there please?

Thanks.

Very slow platform startup?

Submitted by gandalfmeister on October 15, 2018 - 3:10pm

I've just upgraded my laptop to a new i7 device running an SSD (up from i3 on regular harddrive) however {prtableapps platform test AGES (like 1 min!) to startup first time every day. On the old machine it would take about 20 secs - but on the new machine it is easily 3x slower

The progress bar is initially quite quick, and it then just stops for almost a minute, then just starts up without the progress bar completing.
What's going on and how can I fix it?

Updater aborts on a less severe error - why not continuing?

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Submitted by Martin0815 on October 8, 2018 - 4:56am

In the office some apps can't be updated, because our AntiVirus Solution denies the download.

Today GPU-Z was blocked.

If the updated tries to install an application, which installer download blocked, the updated shows an error and aborts updating, no matter how many apps are still to be updated.

Is there a chance to change this, to allow to continue - evt by user interaction?

New files in "DefaultData" folder not moved to "Data" folder

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Submitted by passat on September 18, 2018 - 5:26pm

When launcher starts portable app it shloud copy all fles from "DefaultData" to "Data" folder if thay are not already there.
PortableApps.com Platform 15.0.2
If "Data" folder does not contain any of those files (it's "empty"), all files are copied, but if some files already exists in "Data" folder from previous run, than new files are not copied to "Data" folder.

Win10/Win8 - Apps won't run ("Another Instance" + "Requires Windows _ or Later")

Submitted by ddayton on September 17, 2018 - 5:30pm

This is probably due to special work environments, but I thought I'd check with you folks.

I work in a public school system and I've always used PortableApps to keep a handy drive full of utilities for my job. Everything worked fine until I came back to school last month...

We transitioned MOST computers to Win10 last year. Everything was fine, however when I try to run the platform OR any individual portable app now:

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