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Web Cam

Submitted by riedog on July 27, 2006 - 6:11am

Hello i am new to the forum, i have been using Portable TB, and latly Portable Gaim, but i now need a portable program i can use to see web cams, at home i use yahoo and thats part of the deal but with Gaim either i dont have that option or i dont know how to, any advise will be apricated

riedog

Adware Yazzle by OIN in portable*.exe?

Submitted by headshake on July 24, 2006 - 2:46pm

Hello All,

My stopzilla www.stopzilla.com yells at every portable*.exe, i downloaded here, that there is a Yazzle by OIN threat. No problem there is adware but why can't i find any information on this site/forum about it?
Or is there something else going on?


Information on Yazzle by OIN
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/uninstall/1740/Yazzle-by-OIN.html

Name: Yazzle by OIN
Description: Add/Remove Programs entry for a Yazzle product. Yazzle software has been known to be installed without your permission via security exploits. Their end user license agreement, which can be read when installing their products, indicate that these are Clickspring, the makers of Purityscan, products and are bundled with the Outer Info Network Client, or OIN client.

Corruption loves me, doesn't it?

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Submitted by Bahamut on July 22, 2006 - 3:07pm

How do I make sure that files don't become corrupted? Some Fx cache files and a few other random files were corrupted. I ran chkdsk, and that seemed to fix everything, but it's probably because I caught it before it became severe. And because the drive's FS is NTFS. I know there are problems when the drive inserted properly, but I make sure it fits. *sigh*

Status Update (July 21): Power, New Releases and an Injury

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 21, 2006 - 5:30pm

I figured I'd drop another status update in as it has been a few days. The power problems continue throughout my area of New York City. I started getting mostly usable power yesterday. About 100 volts with occasional dips. Enough so I can run off my UPS with a voltage regulator and get a solid 120 to my PC. But not enough to use my desktop and AC at the same time. It's been 5 days and it's now hitting the front page of CNN and The NY Times. ConEd is estimating 25,000 "customers" in my area. Of course, my 16-unit apartment building is considered a single customer... so estimates are at least 100,000 people affected.

Turning off Portable Applications Splash Screens

Submitted by CreativeNRG on July 20, 2006 - 2:14am

I have an autostart file in the root of my portable drive which runs pstart on startup. Pstart in turn starts up my portable thunderbird, Pass2Go and FireFox, can you tell me if it is possible to disable the splash screens in the portable applications on this site? Is there a setting that can be simply changed to disable this.

Thanks, Simon

What are your expierence with this stick?

Submitted by Dorncholatre on July 19, 2006 - 6:48pm

Hi everyone
I bought a Extrememory U3 USB 2.0 Smart-Drive with 1024 MB a few days ago.
Has anyone bad (or hopefully good) experience with this type of stick, perhaps with a former version ?

How relyable are sticks of this manufacturer?
I couldn't find a test of extact this stick, but of others of this manufacturer (which were not at... the top of the list).
I hope, this one will be not as some others.
I bought it 'cause of the low price, the ability to set a password and the other promised features.

Running Encryption apps from a USB drive problem

Submitted by PhatSOB on July 19, 2006 - 5:42pm

I recently ent away for a few days and brought with me my OCZ Rally USB drive with everything I could need on it encrypted on a portion of the drive. I left the encryption software unencrypted of course so that I could run it and access the software I had protected. When I got to my hotel and tried using a PC in their business center I could access the drive but not run the encyption software(TrueCrypt) because it required a driver to be installed. The PC did not allow drivers to be installed without admin access. So that leads to my question, how can I run this software on a public PC that will not allow me to install the necessary driver?

A43 Filemanager

Submitted by Frank D. Hubeny on July 19, 2006 - 7:59am

Hello Group;

I have been useing a item called "A43". It is a portable file manage with a ziper built into it. It works fine and leaves no registry entries. The latest version works on Win2KP, and Win XP.

It may work on older OS's but is notr tested on them. You may be able to download earlier version. Do a web search for it "A43"

FRANK D. HUBENY

Outlook Sync

Submitted by alpha752 on July 18, 2006 - 6:26pm

Please forigve my ignorance, but I was wondering if there was a portable app that would allow me to sync my outlook mail from work onto the USB. We use outlook at work, and I would like to sync all my mail onto my USB for storage and archiving. Is there such a program?

Thanks

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