Portable App Development

Has John T or anyone else considered compiling a one time use Firefox which leaves no traces on the host machine, or on the portable device it is run from?

Opera has a one time use edition at www.kejut.com/operaportable but which still uses folders created in the local settings temp folder. Opera says all information is completely destroyed upon shutdown but there are doubters to this.

I have a simple request to make about the icon that brings up the portableapps menu. Most of the time I cannot open it (a second time that is) since the... what was the name... active program icons (on the right hand side of the task bar)... something like that, since they are blocked off at my local library. They do not let anyone use those buttons, thus I cannot use portableapps, but once when it first starts.

I was hoping that it could be changed to the be a normal task bar icon, or at least letting the using set the option of how the program is to appear in the task bar.

Is there anyway someone could provide a template for use for me and everyone else on the forums? This would include the main background the other background and the slider right?
Thanks
Ben

I guess how do you create a portable app that near the exe there is App Data and Other ect. Folders and the app works. i use Portable App Creation Master and i create app with it but i dont like it. The process is too long with it. Can you help me?
How do you create Portable Apps that looks cool like yours? I really want to know because i want to create apps by my own but i pisses me off.

First let me say thanks SOOO much for making the 1.4 template, I have used it to create several launchers.
I have a few suggestions/requests for ver 1.5
Instead of copying the users current reg and folders etc to the usb drive, can they be renamed to file.ext.portbak, folder.portbak, and regkey.portbak or something similiar? this would be a lot faster than copying them to the flash drive.

This next request is a significant one I realize, but I think it would really be helpful to "intermediate" users who want to customize the script.

Hi everyone!

I would like to translate PA into Spanish, so if you want it, please contact me to get my hands durty

Since portable apps leave Prefetch data, would it be worth renaming the launchers to something generic such as "start.exe"? I am pretty sure that the prefetch files relate to the exe's name, not the app's "true" identity.

This could lead to host machines being clear of evidence that startportableapps.exe and all of its brothers & sisters were launched on a certain time/date, which is surely a good thing?

Or maybe I am missing something?

i am reworking some of my own software so that they work from the PortableApps menu.

problem: when you click a link on the menu, it does NOT change to the directory that contains the exe.

for example:

B:\PortableApps\StartPortableApps.exe
B:\PortableApps\Sample\Test.exe

if i manually change in to the sample folder and double click test.exe it runs FROM the sample folder.

but if i launch test.exe from the PortableApps Start Menu, it is NOT changing to the sample folder --- instead it is running from the B:\PortableApps\ folder, the same location as StartPortableApps.exe.

John, this is basicially a question for you, nobody else can really answer this, but only give an opinion.

You made the launcher for Micrsoft's On-Screen Keyboard.

Well, as my first portableapp, I suggested to someone else last night to try to make something simple like a launcher for Microsoft's Calculator.

Well, then I said, hey, why I don't I give it a shot.

I would like to suggest the option be added to the ini file to make Firefox Portable the default browser.
Its only about 12 registry entries.
I realize its an advanced option but really only advanced users are gonna be messing with the ini file anyway.
Also there seems to be some interest in running the portable version from the local hard drive as their main browser.
I run the portable version but haven't gotten around to editing the registry to make it the default.