General Discussion

I was running my Windows 98 Pentium II machine (trust me, it wasn't ready to edit video as well as I'd like) and needed an upgrade to a Vista box. I use WinXP on a very regular basis with no problems whatsoever, but Vista was the huge downer that everyone said it would be.

A contradicted remark in one thread about flash drive speed vs capacity, and another about hardware encryption, made me think I don't know enough about flash drives as hardware.

Can anybody recommend sites that analyze the drives themselves?

ps Also, somewhat trivially, I wondered if having a few apps each on smaller drives would run faster; and then realized what all this reminds me of: the good old VIC 20 & cart-based computing!:]

Yes, I'm having fun yet!:]

I'm a lot more likely to misplace a flashdrive than a desktop computer or laptop, so I got interested in the various security wares different drive makers supply.

Very quickly I found that (at least for one major encryption program) mistakenly yanking the drive prematurely corrupts the secure folder and causes a world of problems. A dumb but easy way to lose vital data.

Also, I wonder if antivirus & firewall programs can do their job properly on files within an encrypted folder. Do they get scanned as they 'emerge'?

G'day!
First time poster, short time lurker, long time user here.
I'm at a public library at the moment and I don't have long on this temporary computer.
Just a quick question here.
I love all the portable applications available and would like to get each and every single one of them.
I like the Portable Apps Standard Suite but I am somewhat disgruntled by the fact that it does not include all other applications like the ones listed here (https://portableapps.com/apps).

There is an issue with fancy "superbar" feature on windows 7.
I use Windows 7 build 7000 (beta 1).
Launcher and application showing as two buttons instead of one.
Screenshot: http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/01/03/05/09/1660214_148x62.PNG
Is it possible to fix this in a future versions of launcher?

Hi,

I have a 8GB Kingston USB Stick but: wth if i loose the stick, forget it inside the workplace or if it get's stolen? Everyone can see my very sensitive data!

So here is my question: Do you know a USB Stick that asks for a Master Password if I stick it inside a foreign Computer? I know there are existing these Sandisk U3 Sticks, what exactly do they do? Maybe sb knows other solutions.

Happy Ney Year!
eke

Hi,

I read that it is possible to install Win XP on a USB Stick but the stick will be destroyed after a several boots because it only allows 100000 or 1000000 writing / reading sessions (?)
So here is my question: Does it make sense to install portable apps and use it as an portable office without destroying the stick and consequently loosing the files on it ?

ty and take care
eke

I hope that there is CD and/or DVD version of PortableApps.com Suite and Platform so that I can run it on CD/DVD.

I'm using the v2.0.0.20 version of hotmail portable but suddenly I can't seem to get hotmail to work properly. It logs onto my mailbox but won't open messages or folders. It tells me that it's loading but nothing happens.

anyone else come across this?

wcameron

Is there any portable program that will let my sync portable apps with their desktop counterparts? This would be very helpful for apps like sunbird, or firefox.
Thanks!
-Cam