Beta Testing

It is now 4 weeks ago that the initial AutoStart.exe was released, so I thought it was time for an update. Here is the short list of what has changed:

1. USB Hard Drives now have a tray icon.
2. TrueCrypt volumes, now also get a tray icon.
3. TrueCrypt volumes stored on a flash drive are automatically dismounted when that flash drive is ejected.
4. Selecting 'Eject/Unplug' on a TrueCrypt volume itself will dismount it.
5. Code to eject a drive has been rewritten from scratch and now supports more exotic device trees.
6. I improved the code that scans the flash drive for portable applications to handle PortableApps directories better.

I have written an application called U3Autorun that is designed to replace the launchpad code in the U3 partition of U3-enabled flash drives. The application, when run from the U3 partition, performs the following actions:

1) Spawns a copy of itself to a temp folder on the user's hard drive.
2) The copy then scans the root directories of all removable drives
for a file u3-autorun.ini.
3) If it finds this file, it scans it for the name of the executable
to run relative to it.
4) Finding that, it runs the executable.
5) Optionally, it will wait for the executable to finish running and

hello
i've released a freeware aplication to cipher
short messages using an image instead of a password.
you can download it from http://crsr.sourceforge.net

Well here is version 1.01 of PUSS for you all.

This version adds multiple file selection in Secure, a better naming system in Backup (note it will be formatted part1_part2 and the current variables that you can use are %date% + %time%)
and a few other minor bugfixes.

Get it here.

The Liberta Team
http://www.liberta-project.org

To avoid having to include copyrighted code I decided to describe in detail the method Uwe Sieber has discovered to Eject a drive.
Because the method of doing something is not protected by copyright, anyone following these steps and coming to a working solution will have their own copyright on the code thus produced.

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This document describes the method Uwe Sieber uses to perform a device eject

See also:
How to prepare an USB drive for save removal
By Uwe Sieber.
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/RemoveDriveByLetter.asp

I started this topic to discuss the finer details of distributing source code under the GPL that was gathered from public sources on the internet.

Ejection Code
Submitted by John T. Haller on September 19, 2006 - 10:05pm.

This is just me playing around with making apps portable, but there seemed to be some interest, so here it is...

WinImagePE

My servers should be back up soon after a little bit of an overhaul and you'll be able to get to the actual site again, but until then, SourceForge will do the trick.

Due to legal concerns involving the WinImage license, this launcher ships without the WinImage core files. To get these files, connect to WinImage Homepag

I've posted a pre-release of 1.5.0.7 for testers. Despite this being an incremental upgrade of Thunderbird, the portable version is seeing a number of changes. If we could get some folks giving these another once-over before they're released to the world, that would be great...

• Unicode Command Lines - This release now supports unicode paths passed on the commandline.
• Win 95/98 Live Support - There was an issue affecting Live mode under Win 9x that has been fixed.
• Alternate Directory Structures Dropped - All alternate directory structures have been dropped. This allows for a more simplified launcher and increases startup time a bit. You can always use an INI to setup your own structure. the readme.txt is now linked to right in the help file.

Well AutoStart has been released. I finally felt comfortable enough with its quality to release it to the general public. So now I'd like to get some feedback and drive the bugcount to zero.

For those of you who haven't heard of AutoStart, it is a Launcher for portable apps designed to be both tiny in size and extendable. It creates icons in the taskbar notification area for every USB Flash Drive you have attached to your system.

It can be distributed under GNU General Public License and the sources are availalbe from the Liberta project page. To see the sources you'll need to go to the sourceforge website and look in the subversion repository of Libertà.

I've posted a pre-release of 1.5.0.7 for testers. Despite this being an incremental upgrade of Firefox, the portable version is seeing a number of changes. If we could get some folks giving these another once-over before they're released to the world, that would be great...

• Unicode Command Lines - As posted in the FFP launcher thread, this release now supports unicode paths passed on the commandline.
• Win 95/98 Live Support - There was an issue affecting Live mode under Win 9x that has been fixed.
• Alternate Directory Structures Dropped - All alternate directory structures have been dropped. This allows for a more simplified launcher and increases startup time a bit. You can always use an INI to setup your own structure. the readme.txt is now linked to right in the help file.