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Starting okay, what about shutting down?

Submitted by death au on October 25, 2006 - 9:35pm

I'm using my portable applications more and more these days, even using the apps from my portable hard drive on my main PC at home.
There's plenty of programs that allow me to start my portable apps when I plug my hard drive in, but what about when I want to unplug my hard drive? Is there any application out there that can keep track of all the handles to the portable disk and either shut them down, or prompt me to shut them down? I would prefer if it didn't just kill the processes, but quit the associated programs cleanly. (I've been trying to kill stuff with a batch file, but it's not really what I want to do).

Paging Mr John Haller...!

Submitted by meanhoe on October 25, 2006 - 8:32pm

i have been roaming around this site for a few weeks now. i want to give you a piece of my mind and say... THANK YOU! you have made my life a more pleasant one. once there were only shades of grey, but now because your contributions to us all i have COLOR!

once again... THANK YOU!

and i'd like to thank those who help others out as well.

Multiple boot partitions on flash drives

Submitted by Caine on October 24, 2006 - 5:25pm

Hi everyone. I have been lurking here for a while and would like to see if it's possible to get a flash drive partitioned for use in this method. I have two unattended install images of Win2k and WinXP and would like to take a 2gb drive, partition it up, and get three bootable partitions, one for each install image and one for a bartPE boot for utilities and additional software.

I am interested in doing this because it has become common enough for a re-installation of the OS to a user's pc. Ideally, the install image would be updateable as service packs and hotfixes are released, which is part of why flash media is ideal. The other reason being small size vs CD's.

USB key seen as a cd-Drive

Submitted by abnormal on October 24, 2006 - 2:25am

I recently bought a Vonage V-phone which is just a usb key. What is interesting is that Windows detects it as a CD-Drive which allows you to pull out the usb key without safely removing it. The software just closes itself after the usb has been pulled out. Does anyone know if or how to accomplish this with another usb key?

Portable Search Engine

Submitted by zacharyliu on October 23, 2006 - 5:57pm

I found a portable search engine - Gaviri PocketSearch.
It is not free, but does have a good free trial.
The limitation is 2000 documents, but I don't think most people will have that many documents on their drive.
The site does not mention any time limits.
It is also avalible as U3.

Site: http://www.gaviri.com/site/index.jsp
Download (Windows) (old version, see note below): http://www.gaviri.com/site/downloads/PocketSearch-1.1.1.exe
Download (U3) (old version, see note below): http://www.gaviri.com/site/downloads/PocketSearch-1.1.1.u3p

EDIT: They changed their site, new link. Also they released a new version, but the new limit is 30 days, and the old limit is forever and 2000 documents.

Is torpark a trojan app?

Submitted by inuyasha967 on October 22, 2006 - 2:10pm

I've read allegations that torpark phones home here: http://www.torrify.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=311
Untill this question is resolved ill have to refrain from using torpark and switch to the official firefox/firefox portable and tor releases. I know that torpark is someone elses project, but since firefox portable is used in torpark, could mr Haller investigate and comment? Please note that i maintain full confidence in the use of firefox portable and tor. I an no programmer so even if the torpark is open source i have no idea how to verify it. I hope someone more knowlegeable can check it

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