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Praise for PortableApps

Submitted by travellingman on February 22, 2008 - 3:44am

I don't mean to gush, but it is only now that I'm reaping the full benefits of PortableApps.

I live in the United States. Up until now, my experience with PortableApps has been using them on my friends computers, my parents computers, or a few random office computers. I liked the concept, and it worked very well.

Ridiculously slow install on flash drive

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Submitted by stone1343 on February 21, 2008 - 5:00pm

Hi, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, I've searched the forums but no thread stood out for this problem. As I type, OpenOfficePortable is installing on my OCZ Rally2 8GB flash drive. Best guess is, it's taken 20 minutes so far, the progress bar is about 2/3, I'd say it's been on th_en_US_v2.dat for about 5 minutes. It was the same installing GIMP Portable, and others.

I guess that's just the way it is, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Any insight? I know flash drives are slower for writing, but this is truly ridiculous...

What if I loose my USB Stick - Re; Encription

Submitted by darchorse on February 21, 2008 - 8:07am

Hello, Just joined so this is probably a question that has already been asked a million times so please forgive my ignorance to ask again.

If I loose my USB drive I want to keep my info safe. Is it possible when someone tries to open the "portable apps" menu they will be presented with a user name password dialog that prevents them from going any further, thereby making the stick useless? Preferably the dialog is presented before any window showing files etc comes up.

TIA Darc

Automated GUI program using ClamWin as a Memory Scanner

Submitted by BluePlanet on February 20, 2008 - 6:11pm

FYI: This an continuation from https://portableapps.com/node/5449#comment-66537
You might want to read what is there first.

A bunch of people here came up with the great idea of using a .bat file to run a ClamWin memory scan every time that you plugged in your drive. But I don't like the ugly DOS prompt. Blum Biggrin So I wrote a nice little program, that will start a scan, but only show a blinking tray icon. If ClamWin finds anything, a window will pop up and tell you what it found. You then can save the report off as a file.

building usb stick -> questions + firefox portable not only saves on usb-stick?!?

Submitted by Stupsi2k on February 20, 2008 - 12:04pm

hey.

am currently building an usb-stick.
here some questions:

1. do i need a firewall when i launch usb-stick-applications at my own pc, where anyway is a firewall + antivirus installed? is the usb-stick an own "environment"?

2. are the progs really caching on the stick // is there really nothing saved on the real computer? for example the cache of "firefox portable".

config ini

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on February 19, 2008 - 11:08pm

I like to request PortableApps start putting the configuration ini into the correct path. I think this putting an configuration ini somewhere where it not belongs is not very useful anyway.

Yeah, I could move them manually, but I usually assume I dont have to move any files to configure software. And I assume there is no need for users to bother with the ini file at all in most cases.

OPEN SOURCE SPYWARE PROTECTION??

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Submitted by Nathan9222 on February 19, 2008 - 6:26pm

I was wondering if there was any open source spyware protection, cause it would be nice to have on a usb, since if u have seen my previous forum, https://portableapps.com/node/11390 then u will know y this would be usefull to me. it would help me feel more secure, because our school computers have been infected with DARKUSB and who knows what else there might be that comes with it. Anywho any links or names of spyware protecting software would be appreciated.

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