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Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
Deozaan:
Hmm...how about a portable app updating utility? How would one go about doing that?
-techidave (September 08, 2010, 05:38 AM)
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Read the post just before yours:
Hmm...how about a portable app updating utility? How would one go about doing that?
-superboyac (September 07, 2010, 10:12 PM)
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I think PortableApps.com is working on the next version of their launcher thingy that will update their apps. Not sure how far out it is though.
EDIT: It's in beta which you can try out here:
http://portableapps.com/news/2010-07-17_-_portableapps.com_platform_2.0_beta_5_released
-Deozaan (September 08, 2010, 12:57 AM)
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It doesn't matter whose launcher you would use for portable apss, Liberkey or PortableApps, they will install stuff by default you may not want.-techidave (September 08, 2010, 05:47 AM)
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That's not accurate either. You can download the PortableApps Launcher separately from any other apps.
CWuestefeld:
what i'd really like to do is come up with something so that LBC and FARR can parse the portable-app-collection formats, so that you can use LBC and FARR as a drop-in replacement for those portable app menu launchers without doing any special configuration.
-mouser (September 07, 2010, 07:32 PM)
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That's an incredibly good idea!
I use WinPenPack, and from what I know about the way they store their launcher data (it's all in an XML file), it should be pretty straightforward to do it for this case.
techidave:
That's not accurate either. You can download the PortableApps Launcher separately from any other apps.
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Ok so you got me there. Most of the ones I have checked will have a suite of apps that come with the launcer. Some of those default apps I may not want. And yes, I probably could just download the launcher only and then pick and choose. But that's not what I want. If I get the "complete" package it could have open office plus a whole bunch of stuff. I may not want open office but want the other stuff.
tomos:
That's not accurate either. You can download the PortableApps Launcher separately from any other apps.
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Ok so you got me there. Most of the ones I have checked will have a suite of apps that come with the launcer. Some of those default apps I may not want. And yes, I probably could just download the launcher only and then pick and choose. But that's not what I want. If I get the "complete" package it could have open office plus a whole bunch of stuff. I may not want open office but want the other stuff.
-techidave (September 09, 2010, 01:51 PM)
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seems to me if you're fussy about what you want you're going to have to download the launcher and the apps seperately i.e. have a little bit of work :)
Or I guess you could download a package and delete what you dont want
ajp:
I've noticed that PortableApps on a thumb drive doesn't do the autorun in Windows 7. Just FYI.
-Deozaan (September 06, 2010, 09:30 PM)
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Yes: Windows 7 has disabled auto-run on thumb drives by default (it's not only about PortableApps). This was an excellent decision make by Microsoft, because auto-run was a perfect way to propagate malware. Every XP/Vista machine I installed, I always turned off auto-run before anything else. Minor annoyance for some use cases, but a good decision, I believe.
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