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A truly portable XP operating system?

Submitted by omniryx on October 31, 2008 - 7:33pm

Let me preface my question by noting that I am a psychotherapist, not a computer guru. I'm married to a PhD in computer science but his area is quantum information theory and that offers little in the way of help.

My question: Is it possible to develop an XP-type operating system that will run truly portable? I.e. leave no traces on the computer when it is shut down? If so, is anyone working on that? Status?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

@John- Please update Firefox support page!!!!!

Submitted by dark_yux on October 31, 2008 - 2:26pm

While looking through the Firefox 3 Portable option pane in the "Applications" tab I noticed that "mailto" links are now set as a "mimetype" so you can use Thunderbird Portable for mailtos. I set it up myself. I just went to the aforementioned panel went to "mailto" and chose "Thunderbird Portable.exe." It works. I tried it on a couple links.

Notepad++ Portable 5.1 Release Thoughts

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 30, 2008 - 10:34am

I'm working on Notepad++ Portable 5.1 and there are a few issues I'd like to run by everyone. Notepad++ 5.1 introduces a split into a Unicode and ANSI version just like Miranda IM, WinDirStat and others. So, I've been debating whether to include Unicode and ANSI and switch between them as we do with other apps, or just do Unicode to save space and packaging time as Windows 9x support is ending for most of our major apps in the next couple months anyway.

Ever be a PA version that can work on any OS ?

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Submitted by Mickeyj4j on October 30, 2008 - 7:38am

I wonder if there could ever be a PA version outthere that can work on any type of system eg Linux, XP, Vista, Mac.

Basically I would like to be able to use my portable apps on any of the mentioned systems. even if i had to use a different launcher for each that would be ok I am so used to using my system in xp and am trying ubuntu Linux out. but sadly i cant get PA Suite to run on it. and none of my apps will either. Has been disused before somewhere round here and I missed it.

foobar2000 0.9.6 will feature portable installer

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Submitted by Bahamut on October 30, 2008 - 1:56am

http://www.foobar2000.com/?page=ReleaseNotes&version=096
Installing in portable mode only extracts the installer content and creates additional files that tell foobar2000 to store any configuration data in its installation folder as well as not to alter the Windows registry. Note that it is not possible to edit file type associations with foobar2000 when using portable mode, as that would require changes in the registry.
Note that 0.9.6 is in beta and that 0.9.5.6 is the latest stable version at this time.

Attention: John T. Haller and Members. Need a quick resolution

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Submitted by jwyanze on October 29, 2008 - 11:30am

Good day every one. Jwyanze back again...
There is a problem that i bring to the table here to day and will like to get it sort out ASAP. As u know out apps has been featured on may websites before and that is all good and well. Not so much when an app is misrepresented by one very highly ranked site.

There is a blog post by the editor Seth.Rosenblatt on Download.com about Johns AppCompactor at the address located

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