Howdy All,
Looking forward to using this great program but every time I install it on my 8GB flash drive it seems to install fine but nothing will run. I just get the quick flash of the DOS window and then it closes, that is it. I just downloaded the program again to see if perhaps the last one was corrupt. It is at 51% thus far so we will see but last time it would not autorun nor would it if I clicked on the .exe.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Cheers!
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then the apps are corrupt.
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As all of ya should know Microsoft is the Evil Empire, and Windows (a.k.a. Winblows or Windoze) is their greatest general, so please make a difference and install Linux or Free BSD on yer Windows comp.
Soo...I assume they are corrupt upon install vs. downloading the program twice and having the same instance happen each time. Any clue why it might be corrupted every time? Had no issues with other programs n my stick so I am curious. Cheers for the reply.
Antivirus program?
To be sure that you have the right and unaltered exe, check the md5sums.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
it could be my AV program causing install issues? The version I am using is right off their site, unaltered. The full 90mb one. Should I try the lite instead or?
I meant that maybe it searches for a virus and "finds" one (sometimes we have false positives here).
Another thing would be to try downloading it on an other PC/network as maybe there could be something (I for example couldn't download stuff from Ryans website at work...).
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
possible I suppose. Just on my home PC here, not at work. I did try it on my girlfriend's PC and same issue occurs. Perhaps it hates my flash drive?
installing it to your Desktop.
If it works fine, but doesnt work fine of the USB, maybe your USB filesystem is damaged???
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
install it to my desktop and then dragged it over onto my USB drive. Works perfectly now! Only FF will not, just flashes the black command prompt and that's it. Everything else seems perfect. Only issue I am getting now is every time I disconnect the drive, all my saved info is gone. So I have to set up Gaim and Thunderbird all over again. Any ideas on how to get it to save the info? Cheers
If you attempt to run a Windows program life FirefoxPortable.exe and it flashes a command prompt, that means the executable is corrupt. It's sounding like you have a hardware problem with your device. If it works on your local PC but then fails on the device, it is NOT a software problem at all. It is a hardware one.
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