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Hi Zach,
that's strange, cos this is what the changelog here in the thread says:
"a search bar with portable history that will search google, google maps, google images, google products, and wikipedia, as well as lauch local programs, files and directories"
is there a way to use my existing install. so i can run both the original menu, and/or geek menu to save space on my usb hdd. i don't want to have to set up 2 sets of each program to do this. what are the file(s) i would need to change to achieve this.
An Old Irish Blessing
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
MickeyJ4J
1. Extract the geek.menu .ZIP package to a folder of your choice (C:\Tmp for example).
2. From the C:\Tmp directory, copy the C:\Tmp\PortableApps\geekMenu directory to your PortableApps directory (F:\PortableApps for example, if the F: drive is your pendrive).
3. From the C:\Tmp directory, copy the StartGeekMenu.exe file beside to the StartPortableApps.exe file (to drive F:).
4. Modify the autorun.inf file if you wish.
To use the official menu, execute the StartPortableApps.exe file. To use geek.menu, execute StartGeekMenu.exe.
(Note that as a side effect, geek.menu will shown on your PA menu as well.)
Step 3 wont work. copping a short cut from the file F:\PortableApps\Geek.menu ditrctory does though.
Also doing what you suggested actually does not let me access all the apps i have installed on my hdd. so i need to manually coppy them over and have them x2 which takes up more space on flash
would modifing the autorun.inf file solv this. How is this done. i did it for the MenuMod but cnt remember how. I would like to modify it to be able to use the origional, the geek.menu, and the MenuMod patch for testing purposes. Just untill the next release comes out that is.
Btw does anyone have an update on the release of the new menu: post the link to it better as this is not a forum for it.
An Old Irish Blessing
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
MickeyJ4J
Does anyone know what the status of the geek.menu fork is? There has been no apparent development activity in 10 months.
Probably because the PA.c menu is about to have a huge update.
Development stopped on geek.menu 10 months ago because of a long promised update to PA which hasn't materialized yet and will only supply a small subset of g.m functionality even when it does? Hard to believe.
If anyone has actual info about the status of geek.menu (the developer isn't answering emails) I'd appreciate it.
You do know it's in beta, right?
FreeOTFE would be a better choice than Truecrypt - Truecrypt requires administrator rights, which isn't compatible with a portable system.
FreeOTFE also includes FreeOTFE Explorer, which doesn't need admin rights
Better still - why not include both!
I like Truecrypt the best! Keep it!
I Relay like this and I use it instid of the PortableApps.com Platform Because it is so customizable!
The only thing I don't like is the search bar at the bottom so is there a way to remove it? Thank you!
You know you really need to support .gifs in your wallpaper plug in! I just love a animated background!
I do not know why, but my last comment about the geek.menu just disappeared after a short amount of time - I wasn' spamming at all, so I can't imagine why is this just happened. In the case of a moderation, I would be happy to read about the reasons.
When I try to rename a category I get "Unable to write to Data\.pafdata."
I tried creating a plain text file named .pafdata. in the data directory.
But that didn't help.
Thanks, Kenny
Fixed, more or less. I wrote my own script to call geekmenu.exe
StartGeekMenu.exe was somehow causing the problem.
Now I just have to figure out why it's hanging when I tell it to exit.
Kenny
Hi, Kenny
I, too, have the "Unable to write to Data\.pafdata" error.
Can you please share your fix?
Thanks!
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