I made a nice little .vbs script that can do the following:
- Set an environmental variable to the drive letter of your portable drive, so you can use programs/shortcuts that need an absolute path by changing the drive letter to %portabledrive%:
- Creates a shortcut in the computer's My Documents folder to a directory on your portable drive, so you can just click on it as a folder in most open/save dialogue boxes. It removes it when you remove the drive.
- Starts PStart (or whatever you change it to)
- Can start a program before/after/at the same time as running pstart.
- Safely dismounts the drive (if you are an administrator on the computer) when you close the menu program.
Originally it was a collection of batch files to dismount the drive, but I wanted to play with the VBscript that I learnt last semester.
The script is posted here: https://portableapps.com/node/639#comment-2238
Please let me know what you think in that thread.