PortableApps.com Platform

Hello Again everyone:

Now and then, I run across a problem with my portable apps. I am using the 11.2 version, and am unable to update my apps.

Last night I saw a lot of automatic updates for the portable apps I have in my menu on my USB drive, (16 gig) so, I clicked to install the updates. I received a confirmation massage that the updates were available in the menu. I thought no more about it. I shut down my computer, and unplugged the USB drive as usual.

My work pc suddenly won't read my usb drive. It is running XP and Computer Management / Storage identifies the drive present but it is not mounted. Tried 2 other pcs at work, one Win7, the other XP. Both read the drive. All run identical antivirus software. Portable Apps run fine on both of them.

Same at home with two Win7 and one XP computer. Any thoughts on what I might look for? Frustrating because it is not working on the computer I use the most and it is reading other USB devices.

I thought I had posted this earlier in the day but I never saw it appear

I consider this a bug. You know you need to check for update of an app at startup. You also know that app is marked for auto-start, and you have the limitation of not being able to update it while it is running. It's clearly a bug. You trip yourself and call not doing it a feature?
However I see something similar in the list of features for the future.

Delay apps set to autorun until after the updater has done a check, possibly not starting the ones that require an update

I hope this is the correct location for this issue. I did not find another way to report this.

Here https://portableapps.com/support/portable_app#installing

It says: just click Options and then Install a New App
in 2 different locations.

With the current version of the platform, it should say:
just click Apps and then Install a New App

I have set the w7icon to be onnly in the tray and not in the task bar.
However, this has the effect that all contetents of the w7 desktop are hidden as long as the platform is on.

How can I hide the icon in the task bar and have it only in the tray but keep the desktop?

I was using mainly the 1.6 Platform so far , so all such effect are somehow new to me.

In the root folder of the USB stick, when I click on the usual START icon for PortableApps, I get this warning:

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The PortableAppsPlatform.exe file is not a valid PortableApps.com release and can not be launched.
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Yet when I go into the PortableApps folder, then go into PortableApps.com and click on PortableAppsPlatform.exe, the application starts.

BUT, having opened, I get the error box:

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Could we have download speed throttling built into the platform updater, currently it uses all available bandwidth impacting all users on the LAN.

The default should be unlimited, but the platform should remember the last setting

For an example see the Firefox Downthemall plugin

Thanks

I have now received the Carbide stick.

However I would like to stop the antivirus (rather useless in this configuration) to be loaded on each start of the platform.
HW?

Hi,

My university provides us with a very large (unlimited?) network drive to store our data. When running the PA platform from this drive, I get an 'invalid float operation' error. I know this error is listed as an unconfirmed bug. Therefore I wanted to confirm it as this bug seems to have been around for a long time.

Cheers.

Hello

Sorry for my bad english.

I have installed Platform on my USB stick, now the Stick has as Volumenem PortableApps... but i want my own Volumedrivename,
How can I change this.

Thanks
peter