Portable App Development

I've noticed that apps that are taken from portableapps.com are usually slower when run from a flash drive (for example firefox 3 takes a whopping 30 seconds to load but on the hard drive firefox takes only a second to load). I have my own version of audacity on my flash drive and it loads faster than audacity portable from portableapps.com. Why? Maybe in the future you could make the programs run faster. Do you know why this happens?

EDIT: I mean on startup the apps are slow. Sorry for the confusion.

Not sure if I should just post this in the development section but people have requested a portable vnc viewer. Well I've found one that will work its called tightvnc. This app is licensed under GPL and should be able to be redistributed. Hell you can even change the viewer to add your companies logo etc.. On their download page they have a standalone viewer in a zip format.

http://www.tightvnc.com

Unfortunately I don't have the time to deal with packaging.

I'd like to start by saying great job with this outstanding project. I personally know over 100 people who use portable apps daily and they love it! Myself, I have always been very interested in the concept of portable applications being a software engineer by trade (and hobby), but I wonder if the current approach is the most appropriate. I've never developed an application using the portable apps approach but in general if I were to create a portable application architecture, I would probably go about it differently (I think).

Hi you all!

Well, in this week I found this super-WOW page called PortableApps.com. And well, I want to know how I make a portable app.. Please answer me!!!

I've got a version of MS Office 2007 Enterprise including Word, Powerpoint and Excel working on USB, using only 292MB...
It has icons and the following name: "MS Office 2007 [Word/Powerpoint/Excel]"...
But I think it's illegal... So I'm not posting it or anything...
Please answer me if you are interested and/or know if it is or not illegal...

Is it possible to remove that introduction that pops up whenever you use a portableapps.com app at startup?

Hi All,

I'm using PAM Mod V1.1 locale English R30 and are finding that PAM behaves differently on different machines.

The two things that I have noticed are;

1) Not all applications set to auto start does so on different machines, i.e. TBP would start on machine A (almost without fail) but never (auto) starts on machine B.

2) The sort order of categories is different from machine to machine, i.e. (dir) "FFP" appears above the (dir) "Copy of FFP" on the one machine and visa versa on the other machine.

why is it i can't import a list of contacts from msn to one of these portable client?

can someone please do this.

Topic Clarified by mod Tim
Was "Why ?"

After reading from a post about how PortableApps uses "Security thru Obscurity" approach I was thinking of a way to increase securty. I understand the MUI and Prefetch registry entries currently cannot be touched. An idea would be to incorporate a quick sweep from CleanAfterMe (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/clean_after_me.html) or some similar software to into the ejection script. This I understand cleans the MUI and Prefetch and a long list of other tracks from the pc. The app is already portable being a single EXE and is the best of its kind I know of.

I have made a background skin for the PA menu using gimp and it was easy but looks good and wondering if anyone would like to use it? I have put a link to the picture here.

Menu Skin