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Kingston DT Elite...slows down

Submitted by paladin2006 on December 19, 2006 - 2:30pm

When I install a fresh copy of the portable apps on my DT Elite they all work responsively.

After a time the apps slow down. FF for example is crawling. So I reinstalled FF and it is a bit better but still slow. I used to run Faster Fox, Scrapbook etc but with the new install I omitted these extensions and it is still slow.

I did not change any of the settings so 0MB cache etc.

Does anyone know why this happens. I have also reformatted the DT and that helps but soon enough FF slows down. This does not seem to happen so obviously to Thunderbird for example.

Am I expecting too much from the DT? Have the write cycles caught up with me?

Work / home; friends; internet cafes

Submitted by fergus on December 19, 2006 - 10:11am

There are many references in the forums to the context in which PortableApps (or just portable apps) on a portable drive might be used on host machines, the most usual being machines at work/home and those belonging to colleagues, friends (holidays?) and internet cafes. Is it just me, or do these suggestions reflect a world quite different from the one I inhabit? I don't work in a particularly secure or as far as I know a very paranoid environment, but I can't think of many "colleagues" who would welcome me into their space brandishing a USB stick ... that's easily short-circuited, but where I find real difficulty is on foreign territory: I haven't found an internet cafe with a USB port, or not one that's enabled anyway, and up until reading the posts, had assumed that this is pretty usual.

What *exactly* is left behind as a trace on the host PC?

Submitted by TDD on December 18, 2006 - 6:42pm

I am up against a pretty restrictive and eager-to-make-a-point-of IT department who sees everything as black and white only. I believe the solutions here are superb and am pretty excited to have a bit of freedom again, but...

What is left behind as any kind of trace? I realize the MTU and Prefetch areas are populated on the PC...fine...I can delete those off. Anything else that I should be aware of? Even the slightest thing can make a difference...!

TDD.

Uninstall Portable Apps

Submitted by davidmarek on December 18, 2006 - 3:16pm

Can you tell me how to uninstall the Portable Apps icon / name menu on my flash drive? I know I can remove the folders, but the name of the flash drive cannot be changed, and I cannot remove the 'icon' that has been assigned to it.

Thanks.

IT Question

Submitted by Domenic00 on December 17, 2006 - 9:36pm

Hi Everybody, I work in IT support and come across alot of PC's with virus/spyware problems and this would seem to help. My question is if you run portable spyware/virus spps on your usb drive will you be able to mount the clients drive and run scans from your usb drive?? Thanks in advance, Domenic

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