PortableApps.com Platform

I have tried to add an application to the PortableApps menu, however, the top level folder contained only a folder called Browser and a shortcut to an executable in the Browser folder. However, the shortcut name did not appear in the menu.

I copied calculator.exe into the same folder and it did appear in the menu, as expected.

Please allow a the name of a shortcut to appear in the menu as well as the name executable files.

Ciao. Love the minimalism of the menu system in PA. Its a very good piece of software design.

I have three requests, based on long term use.

1 - Make the menu box have STRETCHABLE length so that you can see more items without needing to scroll.

2 - I would really like a SECOND TIER of categories. So there would be Categories and Sub-Categories under them if you needed that. As the number of portable apps I am using increases all the time I am finding the single-tier category system is not quite enough to organise efficiently.

I am new to PortableApps. I would like to find out if there is any easier way of logging application usage for PortableApps.

## Senario
Let us say I have a USB drive with 10 portable applications; how would I go about logging timestamps when specific PortableApps were launched? I spent the last couple of hours poking around utility applications but non of them seem to be a perfect fit for what I want.

I would ideally want the access logs to be stored on USB drive.

Hello,

Periodically when I launch my Portable Apps platform, all my applications can't access their config files and open with default settings. I noticed the PortableApps directory has read-only folders and even when I give them write access they still are read-only. I have this behavior on Windows 7 and 10 and Windows 7 gave me a compatibility error and offered to run PortableApps Launcher in compatibility mode.

Has anyone had this problem and know how to fix it? Having a development platform not remembering its config settings is a big problem.

After installing LibreOffice 5.0.2.2, I found that the PortableApps.com Platform menu is missing LibreOffice Writer and the LibreOffice main application (LibreOfficePortable.exe). Only Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, and Math are offered. Would be nice getting this corrected.

Thank you very much!

Carsten

Hello,

It would like to see this app higher DPI compatible.

The problem is, i use my laptop all the time, and because it has Full HD display, i have to set a higher DPI to make everything bigger.

Thank you.

When I try to install Apache OpenOffice via the Portable Apps Menu, the dowbload fails due to a 404 error. However, the correspondig link at the Portable Apps website (App -> Office -> Apace OpenOffice Portable) works flawlessly. I think the Portable Apps platform app needs to be updated.

Every time I boot and launch PortableApps menu, the About dialog pops up with the What's New tab selected. I unstand how this could be useful as a one-time action after an update but not every time. How do I stop this. Getting annoying.

--Dean

When I launch portable apps on any computer (Windows 7 and 10) and on any flash drive I have (Freshly formatted or not, has files on it already or not). I am getting a bunch of errors from this platform. At some point I had a file access denied. But currently here is the setup and error it is giving me.
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Current Setup
On Windows 7 Desktop
Sandisk 16GB flash drive (just formatted, file system is Fat32)
Just installed the platform, no apps installed, first launch

PS I am sure that I tried turning off Avast the other day when attempting this, and I still got the error
However this time (2nd attempt) I tried using 'Run as' to run 'Start.exe' and I unticked 'Protect my computer and data from unauthorised activity'
That still got the error.
However I just did both (unticked and had Avast switched off), and I had SUCCESS
You can delete this thread, if you like
Rob