Okay... I don't even know where this post goes but i'm going to put in the general discusion hoping that it's the right place. Okay, so everybody knows that you can only open one program with autorun.inf. I found out the hard way wasting 5 hours of my precious life trying to do so. There is no way (That i know of) to open more than one in an .inf. However, recently I've come across .bat files. I noticed that you could automate a computer to do a lot of thigns in very little time, and it got me thinking. I created a .bat file that looked something like this:
@echo off
echo @echo off> volume.bat
echo set getdrv_=%%3>> volume.bat
dir | find "Volume"> go.bat
call go
if exist volume.bat del volume.bat
if exist go.bat del go.bat
::
rem show that we got it
START "" "%getdrv_%:\StartPortableApps.exe"
START "" "%getdrv_%:\PortableApps\PAM Desktop Icon Portable\PAM Desktop Icon Portable.exe"
This found the drive that the .bat file was on, and then opened the specefied programs. I just had to share. Also, I found a program called BattoExe which is a small light-weight program that you can use to change this bat into an exe file.
You can download it here:
http://www.f2ko.de/English/b2e/index.php
You can use this program to make the autorun.bat into an autorun.exe and call it in the autorun.inf.
Please reply if you didn't understand, whether this is any good, and if you knew this already, lol. well, cheers.
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Why not just right click on the application you want to auto run from the PA menu and choose start automatically? IU do this with PNotes so it is always in task bar as I use it as a clipboard.
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
Why not just use a real clipboard manager like the excellent and portable, ClipX?
I then would have to copy over stuff that I actually wanted to save to PNote, sort of allows me to decide if I really want to keep it or not
But hey I am game to try out new to me software
Andf may I ask how come you haven't put this into PA format yet (lol)
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
Errr...well you see I ummm...
Maybe I should take a crack at some portable apps some time before I grow old and die.
Actually, I ask out of psuedo seriousness because I do use PNotes a little bit but I've been using it for several months and I still can't decide if I like it or not. I agree that's it definitely useful if you want to store anything longer than a line of text, but not exactly long enough to constitute a "document". I just don't use it daily, and I guess I have other applications/methods that I prefer.
Website I might want to look at
If I am going to upload an app I can have the critical info there like site, mdm5, size etc so I can just cut and paste them into a template.
If I am chatting and some one ( Chris) for example gives me a line of code or what have you I can save it in a note for future look at.
I keep some templates like how to post a beta in a pnote so I can copy and paste it out etc
I know I am not using it to its full potential but it is handy for what I am using it for
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
I made it because I made the menu autorun PAM Desktop Icon Portable but it wasn't working, so i tried thie method instead to run both the menu and the desktop launcher.
PAM Desktop Icon Portable:
https://portableapps.com/node/17634
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what is PAM portable Desktop icon?
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
left a link
"Welcome to the Internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are the FBI."
--Matthew Tam
"It is better to take what is not yours, than leave it there, neglected..."
--Mark Twain
Great program. If you're not doing it yourself, are you interested in testing a PA.c version?
Well I use it daily (at work) so it would certainly get used. I believe there really isn't much to do in terms of making it portable, I think it already stores it's settings in an ini file in the app directory.
One thing I'm not sure about is if it caches images somewhere. I suppose it's possible it just holds them in memory, but it could also use %TEMP% or something like that.
Also I don't know what the licence allows for, can't remember if it's open source or just plain freeware (I think the latter).
Anyway, always happy to test.
UPDATE: There's a command line switch ('-p') for "portable mode" to save the ini in the app directory. Turns out I'm not running my portably currently ...oops!
I found the temp storage too I think. So if you run in non portable mode, settings get stored in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\ClipX and there's also a "Storage" sub-folder where presumably cached images and other temp data goes.
Guys, it's much easier than this.
You can have the first program (ran by Autorun.inf) open up another, and another. Here's something simple like that I just wrote.
http://www.bensawsome.com/downloads/store/users/gluxon/Other/Starter.exe
Source.
http://www.bensawsome.com/downloads/store/users/gluxon/Other/Starter.nsi
-_-
"Welcome to the Internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are the FBI."
--Matthew Tam
"It is better to take what is not yours, than leave it there, neglected..."
--Mark Twain