PortableApps.com Platform

I use (among others) Thunderbird and Firefox from PortableApps.

I pinned the start executable (e.g. ThunderbirdPortable.exe) to my Windows 7 TaskBar.

However when I click on it a second Icon appears on TaskBar. I guess its the actual target Thunderbird.

"Normally" (for other programs) the first icon remains the only icon representing the running program.

Is there a way to handle PortableApps programs in the same way?
I want only ONE icon in TaskBar after start.

There was a news article that ASLR is not used correctly in Windows 8 and 10, and to have ASLR you have to Force ASLR for all .exe's. https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/11/17/207239/windows-8-and-later-fail-t... - Forcing ASLR breaks all portableapps apps causing them not to run with error code 7B. The apps work if I download them from their web sites and run without portableapps.

The PortableApps.com Updater or App Directory is already running. This could be the PortableApps.com Platform automatically checking for updates on startup. Please wait for other instances to finish before starting another.

What can I do to run the PortableApps.com Updater ?

Can't seem to find any information on how to use PortableApps with the Cloud as my app storage.
Not that I ever have much luck finding anything that I need... I guess it's just me.
Thanks in advance for any help on this subject.

Is there anything I can do about this ?

https://i.imgur.com/PMZxCUt.png

I was having a problem with not being able to install things because my USB was "too full" yet I had used 6 of 16gb. I looked into what was taking up the space using WizTree, and found that there was a hidden folder called "content" taking up all but 12mb of my drive. I ended up deleting it, and I could install stuff, but what is this folder, and what is it meant for?

Hi all,

Thank you for the wonderful site, forum and resources for all these years.

I searched the forum and read many threads about Drive-Letter Variable Settings. So that when a USB memory stick or other device is given a new drive letter on a new computer, the Portableapps.com launcher's apps paths point to it.

I saw various responses from 2008 onwards:

Relative paths
.bat files
Total Commander variables
other methods

Hye everybody
I have fought with this error for one hour now :
"Freeplane portable did not close properly last time it was run and will now clean up. Please then start FreePlane Portable again manually."

Hello,
Made some experiment with “LibreOffice portable”. I did not install it (on the hard disk), just unzipped it
into a folder, sent one shortcut to the desktop, and so far it works nicely.
Am I missing something if I had installed it as any other program ?
Answers will be appreciated.
Thanks
Motim

Hi,

I installed some apps as standalone and recently installed the PortableApps platform thinking it would autodetect the installed apps so that I could update etc. But is there a way to include them into the Platform, or is the only way to delete them all and then reinstall from scratch??.