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[HELP] With autorun

Submitted by Communist Monkey on February 3, 2009 - 3:44pm

I installed the portable platform (just the menu and autorundata) I changed the icon to my own icon instead of the site icon and I cant get the menu to automatically open when I insert the drive.

This is what my autorun file looks like:

[quote]
[Autorun]
Open=StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
ICON=memory card 2.ico
[/quote]

Can anyone help me make the portable apps menu automattically open rather than clicking it?

Looking for Bat_To_Exe_Converter false positive post

Submitted by PollieXmas on February 3, 2009 - 11:12am

Hi Guys,

After searching the entire day trying to find a post (by MarkoM I think) that specifies how to fix the false positive the Bat_To_Exe_Converter creates and that can be fixed by replacing UPX? with UPC?, I give up and hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

I used Bat_To_Exe Converter to make a ghost exe of a very simple bat file. Avast detects it as a trojan whenever PAM launches.

As I understood the post in question there is a way to edit? the exe to remove the false positive detection.

Thanks in advance for the help.

.NET possibly no longer a concern for PA users on Vista

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Submitted by Bahamut on February 1, 2009 - 9:27pm

The .NET framework comes through Windows Update and is classified as "Important". I know because I got it today. Now I don't know how updates work on XP nowadays, but the default in Vista is to download and install all updates as soon as they are found. This means that almost all machines with an internet connection running Vista will have .NET 3.5 now. Of course, this doesn't mean .NET is no longer a dependency to worry about since XP is still what one typically encounters, but those who routinely work with Vista will now likely to be able to use .NET apps without worry.

U3 or USB with PortableApps?

Submitted by Cazziz on February 1, 2009 - 5:08pm

Hello everyone,

I'm about to buy an USB stick. I've experienced PortebleApps before and i loved it!
But now there is no good way to easely secure your device with an password. At least, not the way like U3 does, mount the device, and first a password, before you can do annything. But the U3 has not the portable apps i want (xammp, Notepad++ and so on).

When Linux does come out.

Submitted by mayorpacmanjones on February 1, 2009 - 2:05pm

Okay I have been visiting pen drive apps and pen drive linux which is very similar to portable apps allot lately. I have knowticed that pen drive linux has their own linux distribution or version of linux. Are there any plans that the portable apps community has to make their own linux distribution? When I saw that linux was coming soon I was thinking about something like Ubuntu or Mandriva or Fedora.

For people who want linux

Submitted by mayorpacmanjones on January 31, 2009 - 11:52pm

I am making a directory for you if you want to run linux,
Persistent linux- A boot-able linux.
Vm Linux-Linux- As a quest opperating system under windows.

Almost all of you could find this sites useful.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
http://www.linux.com/distributions/
Persistent
Try Unetbootin. It will make supportive hardware of portable memory bootable.
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html
*Many distributions of linux have utilities to make their distribution bootable on a usb drive.
Also try infra recorder to burn a disk image to a cd.

New to portable Apps need some advice re:email

Submitted by Micantar on January 31, 2009 - 10:18am

From what Ihave read I understand that I can load a flash drive with Portable Apps which includes Fire fox email

My question is this once I have the email provider on my flash drive do I have to set up an account in the same way as I did on my computer

Once set up can I then send and receive emails from someone elses computer using the portable Apps email

can I use another computer even though that computer has no email installed

Micantar

INI File

Submitted by jimmy72 on January 31, 2009 - 8:43am

I have a few questions about the INI File.

Is safe to have multiple instances running?
Are there any other things that you recomend adding?
I want to know what to add for all apps or a specific one (please specify).

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