General Discussion

I'm on a Mac at the moment, so I can't test this myself, but it just occurred to me...

As far as I know, every .exe launched in WinXP (and later) will result in a corresponding entry in the WINDOWS\Prefetch folder. This file will certainly indicate the date & time the .exe was active, and presumably has some encoded information regarding the .exe itself - its location on disk, and which disk, is probably stored but may not be readily legible to the human eye.

My point is this: Many people here go to great lengths to point out that some apps (notably TrueCrypt) are not "Truly portable", because they leave some traces. Also people seem keen to have security-related apps, sometimes including unerase tools, secure deletion tools and apps to clean up traces of their activity on the host PC.

I was bored at school, so I made my own portable game counter-strike 1.6. Its like 215mbs works on lan only.

I've had a Lexar 128 MB Jump Drive Sport for about two years now, but I never got much use out of it until I found this site. Now I'm finding that 128 MB just ins't enough for my apps and all my files.

While browsing eBay, I noticed that there are several "no name" brands of thumb drives being sold for next to nothing. Has anyone ever used a no-name brand? Are they all the same, or is it worth paying more for a brand name?

Another nice app. Check it out
http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php

Is a secure delete utility really necessary for a flsh drive? I understand that the nature of flash drive is using solid state RAM as a storage medium and using on or off. I also know that on magnetic media there is always a trace left behind of anything because of the way the technology works.

Is it posible to have a portable codec pack? like xvid, divx, real, quicktime.
If you bring your movie-dvd to somebody's home, or want to see some short movies on net, that's a problem without correct codec.

Would anyone be able to tell me why I might want to use AbiWord in place of Open Office Writer? I already have open office installed on my thunbdrive and do not have any storage space issues.

Hi, I'm getting my first USB drive and will be running firefox and thunderbird from it while traveling this summer. I am still trying to get my head around using apps from a USB drive though. Is it possible to run any program from a jump drive? Or only apps that are specially programmed? In any case, is there a good FAQ anywhere that I might have missed?

What I am really curious about is a program I use called Wikipad. I know there are wikis like tiddlywiki I could use instead that would probably work on the portable firefox app. Is there a reason I couldn't use this Wikipad program off of a USB drive? Thanks, just a little confused.

Is it possible to make one of the desktop searches such as Google or Yahoo portable?

What would defragmentation do to a portable drive? I want PFF to be faster, but I don't want to risk hurting the USB drive.