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Hi, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, I've searched the forums but no thread stood out for this problem. As I type, OpenOfficePortable is installing on my OCZ Rally2 8GB flash drive. Best guess is, it's taken 20 minutes so far, the progress bar is about 2/3, I'd say it's been on th_en_US_v2.dat for about 5 minutes. It was the same installing GIMP Portable, and others.

I guess that's just the way it is, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Any insight? I know flash drives are slower for writing, but this is truly ridiculous...

How do I put activesync on my USB flash drive i.e. SD card?
thank You
penni

ok, i can't get any non-portable program to work with portableapps. i place the program in the pa folder, in a filder in the pa folder, above the pa folder, and in a folder above the pa folder. none of them work. what am i doing wrong.

Hello, Just joined so this is probably a question that has already been asked a million times so please forgive my ignorance to ask again.

If I loose my USB drive I want to keep my info safe. Is it possible when someone tries to open the "portable apps" menu they will be presented with a user name password dialog that prevents them from going any further, thereby making the stick useless? Preferably the dialog is presented before any window showing files etc comes up.

TIA Darc

FYI: This an continuation from https://portableapps.com/node/5449#comment-66537
You might want to read what is there first.

A bunch of people here came up with the great idea of using a .bat file to run a ClamWin memory scan every time that you plugged in your drive. But I don't like the ugly DOS prompt. So I wrote a nice little program, that will start a scan, but only show a blinking tray icon. If ClamWin finds anything, a window will pop up and tell you what it found. You then can save the report off as a file.

hey.

am currently building an usb-stick.
here some questions:

1. do i need a firewall when i launch usb-stick-applications at my own pc, where anyway is a firewall + antivirus installed? is the usb-stick an own "environment"?

2. are the progs really caching on the stick // is there really nothing saved on the real computer? for example the cache of "firefox portable".

I like to request PortableApps start putting the configuration ini into the correct path. I think this putting an configuration ini somewhere where it not belongs is not very useful anyway.

Yeah, I could move them manually, but I usually assume I dont have to move any files to configure software. And I assume there is no need for users to bother with the ini file at all in most cases.

I was wondering if anybody knew if there was a way to change the order of the apps as they are listed in the menu. I wanted to group the apps by type (ie. all the utilities together).
Thank you in advance.

I was wondering if there was any open source spyware protection, cause it would be nice to have on a usb, since if u have seen my previous forum, https://portableapps.com/node/11390 then u will know y this would be usefull to me. it would help me feel more secure, because our school computers have been infected with DARKUSB and who knows what else there might be that comes with it. Anywho any links or names of spyware protecting software would be appreciated.

Heise security are running a very interesting article at the moment about a USB drive they have tested.

It claimed to be 128 bit AES encrypted, but the testing showed that the data was actually only protected by a simple XOR cypher.

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/features/print/110136