I was wondering if anyone knows how (or even if) you can make shortcuts that are able to work on a thumb drive even if the letter changes from one computer to the next. For example, instead of a normal shortcut saying somthing like "E:/FireFox/Firefox.exe" I'm thinking of it just having it point to the FireFox directory and the exe within it. That way I can use just a few apps on a smaller drive. Another way of saying it is I want to make a relitive shortcut instead of a fixed shortcut.
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Windows doesn't support relative shortcuts. If you use a launcher such as PStart or PAM, you can set up their menus to use relative paths.
I have a modified script that I got from here somewhere, and I have it setup to run everytime I plug in my drive. Open a new text file and save the following information as a vbs file.
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") arrPath = Split(Wscript.ScriptFullName, "\") strdriveletter = arrPath(0) set colVolatileEnvVars = objShell.Environment("Volatile") colVolatileEnvVars("phd") = strdriveletterThe path will be %phd%\PortableApps\ instead of D:\PortableApps\, in my case I used phd as in Portable Hard Drive, but you can change it to whatever you want.
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Thanks for the tips.
You can also use my DriveVar util
You can get it HERE
drivevar.exe -a will add %PA_DRV% as an environment variable pointing to the drive you run it from (so run it from the usb drive)
drivevar.exe -d will remove the variable.
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I have the PA_DRV ev and it points to drive G:. There's only 3 problems with that, 1. PA is on my I: drive, 2. I don't have a G: drive, and 3. I don't see drivevar.exe being executed anywhere on my USB stick. It's in the Documents\Download folder but autorun invokes PortableApps.
The USB stick is NOT a U3 device but it does have 2 partitions with the 1st one a CDFS drive set as drive H:.
How do I get PA to set PA_DRV to the correct drive letter???
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