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Running on a USB Flash DriveSubmitted by BigEagle on August 25, 2006 - 1:23am
Will 7-Zip Portable work if running on a USB flash drive? »
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Yes,
that is the whole reason that it is called portable, because it is designed to run from a USB drive without leaving any traces on the host PC. See here for more information.
Yours
Steve Lamerton
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
The reason that I asked was
The reason that I asked was that in the description it says "read-only" devices and USB flash drives are not read-only.
ALSO
It *ALSO* supports running from CD (read-only). In addition to USB flash drives, iPods, portable hard drives, local hard drives, network shares, Zip disks, etc.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Making self extracting files?
I like the interface of 7Zip but i couldn't see if it made self extracting files - i assume not. I found making self-extracting files useful with 995zip but it would appear others don't.
Be interested in comments - thanks.
There's a checkbox for it in
There's a checkbox for it in the compression options when you go to make an archive.
(Boring.)
Thanks - sorry i didn't
Thanks - sorry i didn't noticed that. I'm just discovering this great world of 'portability'. As a teacher using different machines often it is fantastic. Firefox with all my saved bookmarks is the #1 on my list followed by OO.