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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

MS Office 2007 Portable

Submitted by _david_94 on November 17, 2008 - 3:56pm

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...

PAM Mod behaving differently on different machines

Submitted by PollieXmas on November 17, 2008 - 6:35am

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.

[Idea] CleanAfterMe to increase PortableApps security

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Submitted by horusofoz on November 16, 2008 - 3:42am

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.

Wish: Integration of Truecrypt in Portable Apps

Submitted by mmeuter on November 14, 2008 - 1:11pm

I would like to protect my USB stick but if i put all applications into a Truecrypt image, I can only use them, if I have administrator privileges which severely limits portability. On the other hand I would like to protect some of the applications, like Thunderbird or Sunbird, while the most could remain free. One possibility would be to install one portable app on a protected portion of the drive, others on the free part, but then you have two menus, making it not an elegant choice. It would like to be able to mount programs into the menu from a truecrypted image.

Prog that will create a portableapps installer file ?

Submitted by Compgeek on November 14, 2008 - 3:24am

im new to portableapps, (GREAT software) is there an exe file that will create a portableapps installer file if i give it a portable app? it would be easy for me to be able to just make a portable version of an oss program and have an exe re-package it as a portableapps installer.
Please help me!!!

Topic clarified by mod Tim
was "Can u help a new guy out?"

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