Is there a way to immediately terminate (kill) a portable application when the memory is removed from the host?
I think U3 supports this feature
If this topic was discussed in the past I would appreciate a pointer
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Immediate termination of portable application upon unplugging
June 19, 2007 - 5:02am
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Immediate termination of portable application upon unplugging
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If you do want to research on that function, there's a search function on the top right corner of this site.
However, you should never remove your drive without firstly ejecting the disc properly through Window's Safe Removal of devices, because if you pull the device out with first ejecting it safely, you could cause severe corruption to your drive, causing it not to work any more, and then you're stuck with a broken hard drive.
However, in the next release of the PortableApps Menu, there will hopefully be an eject function off of the menu, that will terminate all processes running from the device.
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there isnt, not yet anyway. and u3 doesent support that, it supports the immediate termination of u3 but not any .u3p's. the reasonis because there would have to be a detection thingy in the ram along with the program that would terminate the program apon the lack of detection of the PAM drive<(TM(sergentsiler)because we dont have that, it is currently impossible. thogh that would be handy.
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The feature isn't that useful and is a very bad idea as it encourages people to do this... even though it often corrupts open data files on the storage medium. We're supposed to be encouraging people to be responsible... not do dumb things.
That said, a later feature of the menu will support removal detection and app closure.
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Thanks John and others for the thorough explanation
I understand it's a bad idea because the particular Windows implementation might corrupt the memory. Still the feature is handy when privacy in open/public places is concerned. E.g. when you suspect someone is peeping, the "instinct" is to unplug the portable device expecting the application to terminate leaving also no visual trace
when you suspect someone is peeping, the "instinct" is to unplug the portable device
Recommend you train it to click on the open Windows' instead.
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That's a LOT of work to go to for something that should be done. Try VirtuaWin Portable in the beta forums, it lets you use hot keys to change to a new, clean, or existing virtual desktop, so they can't see what you're doing, and you can pretend you're doing something else, and they won't see your information. When they leave, just go back to the other desktop. Unless you need to get off the computer while they're looking, or they plan to look at what you're doing. If you unserstood that.
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