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How does IronKey work with PortableApps?

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Submitted by dzjepp on April 21, 2008 - 10:54pm

Hi,

I am thinking of buying an IronKey and using PortableApps on it. Does anyone know how well they both work together? That is, are there any compatibility problems installing/running PortableApps on the IronKey?

I dunno why, but somehow I'm under the impression that some problems might arise (possibly because of the hardware-based encryption).

Thanks for any help.

using Portable apps as Default-Apps for other Portable apps

Submitted by MichaelWerner on April 21, 2008 - 8:32am

Hi,

is it possible to use a portable Application as default-Application inside another portable application?

e.g.
- sumatraPDF as (of course external) pdf-viewer used in portable Firefox
- portable Firefox as the Browser that opens urls from portable Thunderbird
- Notepad++ Portable as the default editor used in winscp-portable
- winmerge in rapidsvn portable

Only to give some use cases. Is there already a way, to do this complete or partly? If not, is anyone else interested in such things, and would it be worth some effort?

Installing portable apps not from this site

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Submitted by shawngee on April 20, 2008 - 6:53am

Ok i was wondering if i could install and make a start menu icon for portable applications that are not on this site and how i would go about doing that i have tried once but was not able to get it to work properly any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Shawn

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Disadvantages to portability?

Submitted by sluthy on April 19, 2008 - 6:55pm

I was trying to troubleshoot a plugin problem with FF Portable the other day, and posted on a forum on what I should check (grey bar with red up arrow, menus blank etc). The main respondent just said "why bother doing anything? It's a portable app, just copy out your bookmarks.html, delete the damn thing and reinstall it!" Fair call, and it's what I ended up doing, even though I then had to go through and re-enter all my passwords etc.

Forum Glitch

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Submitted by Stevoisiak on April 18, 2008 - 1:04pm

If you don't end your coding, it will affect every post and piece of text on the page. For example, here is boldface. Now, everything else after this is now bold. This will also be bad if you forget to add the / to the ending code.

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