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Please Test This McAfee Stinger Download Method

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 28, 2014 - 11:53am

I'd like some assistance from folks in troubleshooting the McAfee Stinger online installer. These steps will need to be taken from a network that hasn't been previously used to manually download stinger32.exe from McAfee. By network, I mean your internal network with the same public facing IP address.

1. Download McAfee Stinger Portable.

Portableapps removed yet still functioning....Help please.

Submitted by Mclane on January 28, 2014 - 10:52am

Hi there,

I am helping a friend who installed portableapps but didn't like the fact it renamed drives (well semi renamed them), I searched and told him about editing the autorun.ini and changing the label as instructed on here. He did this but said the name remained portableapps.com so he asked me how to remove portableapps, again I checked here and saw it was a 'snap' and got him on the flashdrives to remove the portableapps dir and autorun, he instead formatted the drives so basically the same.

How to format a flash drive for Windows 7 not to create a Recycle Bin on it?

Submitted by trust on January 27, 2014 - 4:20am

Along these lines: https://superuser.com/questions/76707/how-do-i-get-windows-7-to-not-use-...

But from the standpoint you only have control of the flash drive not the Windows system:

My observation is that if I plug in an MP3 player/Kindle/Smartphone, Windows will not write a Recycle Bin on the drive.

Licensing

Submitted by zip22033 on January 26, 2014 - 10:03pm

Hi All.

I am totally confused on the licensing part and I need some clarification.

I am creating a shareware USB portable software and I would like to bundle few other portable software from portableapps.com from different categories and also Firefox Portable. As I understand these are GPL.

I can do the following:
1. Put all software in my installer and provide it to user to install it.
2. I can also make two installers, one for my shareware and one for GPL software.

Which is the right way of doing it from licensing point of view?

Portable Text Capture App

Submitted by binar on January 23, 2014 - 9:15pm

Fellow Forum Members,
From what I have read in this forum SnagIt is not available as a portable app because it is not freeware. The alternative I have read is FSCapture version 5.4.

The problem with FSCapture 5.4 is it does not support text capture like SnagIt does. FSCapture 5.4 only seems to capture images and not text in an editable format.

Can anyone out there recommend a solid portable freeware text capture app I can use to capture pages of text from a PDF file. Any info will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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