Can't get used to PStart

Actually, PStart does keep track of how many times you launch an app, as well as its last run time (for what reason I don't know--it doesn't show this info anywhere in the interface). Here's an excerpt from my PStart.xml...

<file name="Portable FileZilla">
  <path>Portable Applications\PortableFileZilla.exe</path>
  <directory>Portable Applications</directory>
  <runcount>3</runcount>
  <rundate>2006/04/25 04:31:30</rundate>
</file>

It also tracks how many times you've launched PStart as well as the total time using the menu... not that I'm about to get all upset about it. It's really not a huge deal. Once you get the menu set up the way you want it, just make the XML file read-only and it won't try to write to it ever again.

Also, what he meant was that he wanted a way to set the menu to close on starting an app PER APPLICATION, not just as a global setting.

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This is new:
Multi language support (English and German)
Autorun.inf file creation
Backup file restoration
Very large icon support
Exit PStart via command line (parameter -exit)
Run applications on exit
More item properties (like website)
Smaller modifications
Bugfixes
-System info
-Run and exit application

I really like the following (which i requested):
Exit PStart via command line (parameter -exit)
Run applications on exit
-Run and exit application
This allows to automatically unmount the drive when closing Pstart or cleanly exit pstart when calling an unmount script.

What i don't like on the new version (maybe i overlooked it) is that it always starts with the search tab open.
And that my other request for support of Environment variables (like %WinDir%) is not yet in.

"Create Permanent Backup" creates a pstart.bak
"Create Backup while saving" is a feature i requested. When no space is free on disk, the pstart-xml would get corrupted. So this should first renamethe pstart.xml to something else and create a new pstart.xml. If saving is not successful the backup is still intact.

You can still set pstart.xml to "Read Only", then no changes can be made. The settings is even Disabled unfortunately pstart has no menu for this, but it's really easy 8-)

Very Large Icon and 3D: What do you mean with 3d icons? This button type style used in old win9x? As far as i see astart does NOT support icons! Where Icons are of course much easier to recognise than text, so this is something i would consider much better in PStart. The Text font is from the system.

Cool feature: The "System Information even displays the current CPU speed in real time.

It seems to have problems when updating the xml from 2.06, i got a "division by 0" the first few times when switching to list view.

That backup is saved where the PStart.exe and .xml are.

Finally found the search/list saving:
<panel>
...
<pageindex>0</pageindex>

Well, did you ever encounter data loss because of a full disk?
Lets assume:
You copy 100MB of data to a full partition/disk where the free space is 50 MB. Then you have a program (lets assume it's PStart, i had the progblem with [e]mule) that tries to overwrite a already existing file. What happens? The file cannot be written! Means you lose all your data in the file.

I saw the screemshot of astart and really dislike it. I still think that Icons are much easier to recognize that just text, regardless of the text size. and the "3D effect" is just a self-programmed visual style of old windows9x. Pstart uses the default windows style (which i like very much, since you can change it easily with Themes and keeps the App small).

Still missing Environment vars a lot!