Command Prompt Portable 1.1 has been released. It's a simple utility that allows you to add a link to a customizable command prompt to the menu in the PortableApps.com Suite. You can change the colors, prompt, columns, window title and more by editing a simple batch file. This minor release updates the application to the current PortableApps.com Format and is now digitally signed to ensure integrity. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Features
Command Prompt Portable is a simple utility that allows you to have a custom command line setup on any Windows computer you come across. It has built in support for the command line interpreters on both Windows 95/98/Me and Windows 2000/XP/Vista as well as the ability to customize using simple DOS commands by editing the .bat file within CommandPromptPortable\Data\batch after you've run it once. You can customize the prompt, colors, window title, columns and more. A basic batch file is included with some simple settings.
Helpful Tip: Launch a command prompt with your own portable command line tools in the path by adding SET PATH=%~d0\UtilsDirectory;%PATH% to the batch file and placing your tools in X:\UtilsDirectory
New In This Release
This release updates the installer and launcher for the current PortableApps.com Format, adds a 48px icon and is now digitally signed to ensure integrity.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Command Prompt Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Command Prompt Portable is available for immediate download from the Command Prompt Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Any tutorial to prevent
Any tutorial to prevent vista to wrtie on the drive everytime an App is opened?
Can you turn that question
Can you turn that question into a statement of the problem you are seeing?
For example, how do you know that Vista is trying to write to the drive? Is it a matter of the drive being write-protected and vista complaining that it can't write? Or is some file being changed that you don't want changed?
Sorry for being a little unclear
Like every time you open a PortablApp, Vista Writes on tha drive the new time the App has been opened even If you don't save new work or change options...
A small loss of time and a definite slowdown. I heard it is possible thanks to Command Prompt to cancel this step 4 users who don't want to check the Apps integrity with date of use.
If someone can help...
If not, I'll live with it
NTFS?
Is your drive formated as NTFS?
Tim
It is FAT 32 but when I
It is FAT 32 but when I switched from 1GB to 4GB (Due to extensive use of Portable Apps!
) Firefox and other Apps became much slower.
This occurs especially when starting and closing Apps.
If you have any tips...
Your Drive
It's your drive, not the apps or writing. In general most 4g drives are slower than 1g drives.
But none of this belongs as a comment on a release of Command Prompt Portable. If you'd like some assistance, please post a note in the forums.
Windows writes the "last
Windows writes the "last access time" if you are using NTFS. Is that what you are thinking of? I believe there is a setting to turn that off. But it would have to be done on each machine, and probably requires Admin privileges. I also see it reported that it is turned off in Vista by default.
John's script does a fair amount of reading on the drive, and normally records the last drive that was used in an ini file, so it can fix up paths when the drive is something else. Maybe you are asking him to skip the write if the ini file would not change?
On the other hand, it looks like CommandPromptPortable doesn't write any files after the initial setup. You can look at the source code yourself.
If you are thinking of something else that you think PortableApps or Windows Vista is writing to the removable drive that it shouldn't, please give an example.
Maybe you are asking him to
Maybe you are asking him to skip the write if the ini file would not change?
AFAIK some Apps already do that. That's why he stores the last path.
Console?
Did you ever end up considering putting together a package of Console. One of the beta builds is best as they have tabs and such. I'd do it myself, but I don't completely understand the launcher for Command Prompt itself, so I wouldn't know the best way to handle it.
Thoughts?
P.S. Thanks for the tip on using a portable utilities directory, very helpful.