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portable apps menu on the whack!!!

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Submitted by sergentsiler on March 29, 2007 - 10:05am

for some reason when i plug in my drive to my comp, all of the buttons are at the top and then ther is a big black part where the rest of the menu is supposed to be. another wierd thing is that the buttons that should be at the base of the menu show up at the top with the rest of the menu but the bottom buttons work on the bottom of the screen. this also dosent happen on other comps. anyone know whazup??

This is how we do it.

Submitted by Thomas.Humphries on March 29, 2007 - 9:46am

Ok, here are my thoughts.

Thoughts back would be even better Wink

1. You lose your USB Device.
2. You have help!*1 on the device.
3. You never get a phone call.

So you have to go and get a new pen.
How do we make this totaly/only your device.

Here is how I think (If I could do it all!) my USB pen would run.

1. autorun.inf loads check_if_i_am_me.xxx
2. check_if_i_am_me.XXX checkes your system for username / system name
if system name / username is correct from within program then continue to load portableapps.xxx

New launcher - Qsel - Pstart replacement

Submitted by cmmehl on March 27, 2007 - 1:52pm

Hello everybody,

I would like to recommend Qsel as a launcher for portable programs on your USB-devices. It is of amazingly small size (download is only 63 kb), yet very powerful.

Personally, what convinced me to use it instead of Pstart are the category pages, of which the user can create an unlimited number - allowing for an easier and clearer accommodation of a large number of portable programs than Pstart, despite the latter's group feature. Now my programs are really grouped the way I want, easy to find and and with a good overview.

Newbie Wondering (Please Assist)

Submitted by protocol on March 26, 2007 - 5:49pm

Hello all.
I am using most of the "PortableApps" available here, on my USB - non U3 stick.
I am currently waiting for a U3 stick to arrive and i would sure like to use it as such (..that is, a U3 stick), yet i fail to understand how one can have these "PortableApps" to appear as selectable apps in the U3 menu.

I've seen that there are indeed U3 version of some of the apps, but i wouldn't want to use older versions of the apps just for U3-compatibility's sake.

What would you suggest? Is it possible to use a U3 stick effectively without using "U3 apps", but normal "Portable Apps"?

I would like to get rid of U3...

Submitted by IEatHamburgers on March 26, 2007 - 10:48am

...on my Cruzer Titanium 2GB and replace it with the PortableApps Suite but there's a few things that I want to have first.

1. I like the autorun feature that comes on the drive. I would like to set it up so that it runs the Portable Apps suite. I think I've seen that happen but I don't want to wreck my $60 drive in the process of hacking it, and if I replace U3 with Portable Apps, I want all that U3 crap off of there while still keeping the autorun.

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