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suggestions for good USB stick duplication

Submitted by xbibleyosef on August 25, 2013 - 4:08pm

Hi folks,

I'm looking to sell some software as part of a charity project on USB flash drives sometime next year.

I'm wondering what is the best app to duplicate USB flash drive on a regular PC in say, 4 or 8 at a time.

I'd like to maybe farm out this to someone to do this for me if I get 100s of orders to my product, give them a USB hub and ship new sticks to them from Amazon or whatever.

I think commercial USB suppliers and duplicators will only do this in 1000x pieces or above.

Has anyone ever "dropped" a portable apps install into a WinPE ISO file?

Submitted by zarraza on August 19, 2013 - 3:43pm

I have a vendor that sent me a winPE boot CD to use with their encryption software, but there is very limited functionality with said ISO file - what I would like to know is if it is possible to open up the ISO file with http://www.winiso.com/products/winiso-free.html and add the portable apps directory into my ISO file to have my entire suite of apps available in my winPE ISO file - virus scans, FTP, and any and all other tools that I may need at my disposal.

first, is it possible?

NTFS permission problem

Submitted by farat_as on August 11, 2013 - 12:26pm

Hi,

There is 3 part on my HDD:

C:\ Windows 7
E:\ Ntfs part (includes just my document files and portable apps)
F:\ Windows 8

I format Windows 8 and Windows 7 yesterday.

Now I can write for files on E:\ part with admin user. But windows 7's and windows 8's normal user can not write subdir of E:\.

Taht's why I can not use some portable apps Sad They start as ready-only mode which is not good for me.

How can I give full-control permission for all user of Windows 7 and Windows 8 (admin and other normal users) for E:\ and it's subdirs?

whats the best defrag app

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Submitted by Mickeyj4j on August 11, 2013 - 7:28am

Hi I am wondering what the best defrag app is available on portable apps.

so far i have seen
JkDefrag
Smart Disk Cleaner
wise disk cleaner

are theses or any others better. I currently use JkDefrag and it works great.

appreciate any of your ideas and tips on this regard.

What is a portable app: the Windows Registry

Submitted by djc on August 8, 2013 - 6:56am

To quote from an official page of the site: "A portable app doesn't leave registry entries behind except those automatically generated by Windows".

But this isn't true of everything available here, for instance Skype and the utilities from Sysinternals (Microsoft), and possibly others. And Skype, even in the portable version, still puts things in the user's profile on the system partition.

Just noting this. These items are still much lighter weight than their non-portable variants.

djc

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