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USB Program app development - For use with Television, via USB port

Submitted by GaryM-Wyzr on December 14, 2018 - 8:28am

Hi All,
I have a business idea that requires programmed information (on the USB device) to interact with USB enabled television sets, at pre-determined periods of the day, in either a "screensaver" view or "scrolling" banner view. It must interact with the TV's clock. Is this possible?

Help wanted by creating an portable app

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Submitted by PabstBlueRibbon on November 28, 2018 - 11:05am

Hello everybody,

I would like to learn creating an portable application. Despite the detailed information on this website and some tutorials elsewhere on the internet I find it very hard to understand because of problems with my concentration and attention span. (Yes, ADHD...) I understand the concept, however I get confused by the many tweaks I have to enter into the ini-files. I know all the information needed is described in the manual, but by seeing hundreds of tweaks needed to be entered for a correct ini-file it gets unorganized and confused.

chrome 64-bit updated to 32-bit

Submitted by patrickdrd on November 23, 2018 - 8:14am

hello,

I've been running chrome portable 32-bit,
but I decided to try 64-bit,
so, I downloaded the paf file from sourceforge and installed over,
I updated the latest version from portableapps platform though and
I saw that my chrome portable reverted to 32-bit again,
why was that?

can't portableapps update 64-bit version of chrome?

or maybe it couldn't detect that this was the 64-bit version and
I have to do some manual modification in order to work?

thanks

Starting an application that previously wasn't shut down correctly

Submitted by Karlovsky120 on October 14, 2018 - 2:36pm

Every portable app I have has had this feature/issue that has been bothering me for a while. I've seen this behavior on MPC-HC and FoxitReader, to name a few, and since the same message appeared on multiple apps, I'm assuming this is a part of the core framework.

Try opening an app and then crashing it.

Now try opening it again. The app will tell you it didn't shut down correctly and needs to clean up. That's perfectly fine. So you click ok. And that's it, the app cleans up and closes.

XAMPP Launcher 1.7 upgrade deletes all Xampp installation data

Submitted by konilabs on September 17, 2018 - 6:58am

Dear PortableApps team,

I upgraded XAMPP Control Panel app to version 1.7.0.0 this morning.
https://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp

It deleted all data located inside P:\PortableApps\XAMPP\App\xampp during update.
This means that all my XAMPP installation was deleted automatically, and nothing arrived inside recycle bin.

OS : Windows 7 64 bit.

It looks like it is a major bug to me.
Please contact me if you need any other information.

AntinVirus & Utilities

Submitted by Sam B on September 4, 2018 - 10:11am

Hello, I'm new so don't know very much I think portable apps are just the best thing, however can you make portable apps for bitdefender, Comodo, Vipre, Norton Utilities & Win Utilities, soorry the list goes on, I understand they are not open souce but can they be made for people who own the rights, badically I have a licence for all that ai mention but would much prefer to run them as a portable apps as they tend to suck too much resource from the PC especially when booting, AV all tend to suck resources, hence I don't have the knowledge to do it myself but at least you guy s o have th

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