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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Major Problems

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 28, 2006 - 4:06am

Hello,

First of all i like all the programs and would like to use them, but i am constantly having problem with starting them up. They are totally not working for me @ my work and home. Always when i start up i get the following popup:

http://members.home.nl/r0bert/error.bmp

Sorry that the error is in dutch, but i couldn't get an error in english, i hope you know what it is, cause i really would like to use these programs.

Thank you in advance.

Robert.

WD: a "hand drive"

Submitted by allquixotic on February 27, 2006 - 9:48am

These devices are getting to be affordable, small, and high capacity:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=199

I own one of these and I love it. It really is as small as it looks, and it keeps well in a small pouch in my backpack. I bought it from the WD Store but I'm sure you could find it 40% off at some discount store online (although if it breaks, good luck getting any help from them.)

For comparison, it's about two thumb drives thick and one and a half thumb drives long. Depends on the size of your thumb drive of course. I haven't (intentionally or accidentally) given it a physical beating to test its ruggedness, since it is an actual hard drive and not a stick of flash RAM...

MPUI + MPlayer. Portable and 'better' than VLC.

Submitted by DigeratiPrime on February 26, 2006 - 11:45pm

I just want to reccomend this app. Its fully portable, only 2 files, about 3mb total, and plays more or less what vlc does and does a better job imo. MPUI is the 'mpc' like frontend for mplayer. I reccomend playing files by just dragging them on MPUI.exe or on the open window. Try it Smile

http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php

Games

Submitted by darknight670 on February 26, 2006 - 12:35pm

Is it possible to put games on a USB flash drive?
I was thinking about Wesnoth, Civilisation or an old Age of Empire.
If yes did I need to modify it or just install and deplace?

[GUIDE] Portable Firewall - Winpooch (free/opensource) (400kb)

Submitted by DigeratiPrime on February 25, 2006 - 4:47pm

hey guys i know some people were interested in small and portable firewall, and i think ive found the answer. Winpooch is Free and OpenSource and can be configured as a firewall. I have posted a guide to Neowin and Msfn that shows how to block everything from connecting/listening to the internet and how to add firefox as an exception.

view it here:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=436364

Today's Outtage (404 Errors)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 24, 2006 - 11:26pm

My apologies for the recent outtage. It seems my webhost accidentally deleted a configuration file sometime after 8:30am today that made most of the site inaccessible. (404 errors) I was at the hospital all day and was not aware of it until 11pm tonight when I fixed the error.

Regards,
John

Developers IRC?

Submitted by Thox on February 24, 2006 - 6:47am

Any developers available on IRC or similar to discuss NSIS scripting for portable apps? The main topics I'd like to discuss are RegRapper progress and the %USERPROFILE% environment variable.

I'm sitting in #portableapps on irc.freenode.net if is available. Perhaps an official channel would be helpful?

cmd-line Tools for Ejecting Usb Devices and managing Drive Letters / Mount points

Submitted by Torpedro on February 24, 2006 - 1:27am

Hi!
I just found a page with nice cmdline tools for ejecting (RemoveDrive), changing driveletter (ReMount) and deleting mountoints (DelMountPoint).
I'm evaltuating them at the moment but it looks like something i've been looking for some time (cmd-line and fast!).

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html

A good autorun solution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 23, 2006 - 7:57pm

Boy, this autorun topic is full of conflicts, successes, and failures. I think I've read every post and thread on the subject. I couldn't get any of several prescribed autorun.inf to work on my 2K SP4 OS, and my trial Ceedo usually did but sometimes didn't. I want my 2gb Sandisk Mini to not only carry files, but assist me in my computer repair business. I wanted it to open to the Pstart menu.

I have a lot of clients still running 98, let alone 2K and XP. So, it was important to me that a solution would work cross OS. And we all know how 98 doesn't like mass storage devices.

A page on this forum linked to Torosoftware for their Auto Run USB program. It was pretty poor. However, when I later went to their home page instead of the link, I found out that the link was for version 1.0 and they are now at 3.0! I installed it and it worked great. Then I discovered the flaw........

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