General Discussion

I recently ent away for a few days and brought with me my OCZ Rally USB drive with everything I could need on it encrypted on a portion of the drive. I left the encryption software unencrypted of course so that I could run it and access the software I had protected. When I got to my hotel and tried using a PC in their business center I could access the drive but not run the encyption software(TrueCrypt) because it required a driver to be installed. The PC did not allow drivers to be installed without admin access. So that leads to my question, how can I run this software on a public PC that will not allow me to install the necessary driver?

Hello Group;

I have been useing a item called "A43". It is a portable file manage with a ziper built into it. It works fine and leaves no registry entries. The latest version works on Win2KP, and Win XP.

It may work on older OS's but is notr tested on them. You may be able to download earlier version. Do a web search for it "A43"

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Please forigve my ignorance, but I was wondering if there was a portable app that would allow me to sync my outlook mail from work onto the USB. We use outlook at work, and I would like to sync all my mail onto my USB for storage and archiving. Is there such a program?

Thanks

Just wanted to drop a note regarding the delay. Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird were going to be released this morning at 8am NY time. But Con Ed, the power company in NYC, has been supplying power with an 8% reduction in voltage (read: sub-standard voltage that doesn't play well with electronics) to portions of the city for the past 14 hours. As such, I am unable to bring my primary development systems or UPSes online. I've got my laptop setup as a backup and my internet is intermittent (which is how I'm posting this). There's no ETA on when usable power will be restored to the affected areas. I'll post more when I can.

I suspect that many people who use the OpenCD would like to know about PortableApps, and vice versa.

Is there a webring for Specialist FLOSS distribution sites, or some similar method of associating similar sites together?

Is there a portable defrag tool I can use on a portable hardrive. Becouse i dont have adm right i can do any thing like that. Can anyone plase help.

Does anyone know which smiley module is used on the site (John?)?
Is it just http://drupal.org/project/smileys or not?

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I use several batch files on my USB drive. One starts Pstart and mounts a TC drive. When I exit PStart the other unmounts the TC drive, kills any processes that might be running off the drive and unmounts the USB drive.

On my XP SP1 PC at work all is fine. But on my XP SP2 PC at home the batch files freeze on the TC commands to mount/unmount. If I kill the cmd window (killing the TC) command, the TC drive does eventually showup/go away.

The mount command is
\TrueCrypt\truecrypt.exe /v p:\TrueCrypt\truecrypt /lQ /q

and the unmount command is
\TrueCrypt\truecrypt.exe /dQ /q

Any id

Greetings,

I use a portable 80Gig USB drive where ever I go. When I plug-into someone else's machine, I run an initialization batch to setup the drive letters, enviroment vars, path settings, etc, the way I like. Then, on departure, I have a shutdown batch to put everything back.

A common setting that I have read about, including in this forum, is a batch to allow you to select the Drive Letter of your portable. This is then set to an enviroment variable for use with portable apps.

I didn't like having to always enter the drive letter, so I wrote an automatic method using the DEBUG utility to generate an errorlevel equal to the drive letter. I then substitute drive letter P: for that drive. (I haven't ever had to deal with a system that already used P:, or if it did, I didn't need access to that drive.)