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I am trying to find a fast flash drive in the 8 to 16Gb range without spending more than $60. 8Gb has proven adequate for my needs.

Currently I use an 8Gb Sandisk Cruzer Micro. Love that it is retractable and reliable... but it is s-l-o-w. It can take 5 or 6 seconds after I click in an application for a response.
Furthermore I suspect it is wearing out. When I ran some speed tests recently the write speeds were in the 6 to 7MB per second range until late in the test, when they dropped down to 0.1 to 0.3Mb per second. That made the average write speed drop to the 3MB per second range.

Is anyone familiar with a web browser called Lunascape 6? When I was searching for other web browsers other than Mozilla Firefox, I stumbled upon this. Lunascape is a web browser that can switch between three different rendering engines, Gecko (from Mozilla Firefox), Trident (from IE), and Webkit (Apple Safari and perhaps Google Chrome). Lunascape works great with the Gecko engine, and it seems to (try to) emulate everything about my Firefox setup, themes and all, because it transfers the setup (bookmarks, plugins, and Gecko) from Firefox.

Has anyone tried this browser. Looking at their overview page, it looks really nice. A friend asked about it. and asked for my recommendation, but as I am unable to install & try it out right now, I thought I'd see if anyone one else has any experience with it.

Thank you for all the great work you do in bringing us portable apps for Windows. I like to use these on my notebook PC knowing that I have one less app using the Windows GFR (God Forsaken Registry).

I have one request. Is it possible to give us a portable version of Windows XP or 7, one that doesn’t use the GFR. Oh wait, I remember now….its called Linux.

Thanks again!

[meant as a joke, moved to off topic by mod JTH]

I've decided that I've gotten too used to and too spoiled by Firefox, so I'm gonna test Chrome and Opera for about a week each. I feel like I used to be savvy with both IE and Netscape back in the day, but after Netscape started to go downhill, I switched to IE, and stayed there until Firefox, around 0.9.3 I believe, and I've been with Firefox ever since, and my skill with other browsers has dropped to about nil.

I want to be able to contribute to the menu's development (since I've been using this suite for so long) and I was just wondering how I can.

Hi everybody...
I am wondering what antivirus everyone uses. I would like to know:

1. What antivirus you have (please put the title in 'strong', with database definition version if known),
2. How it treats PortableApps.com applications, and
3. What YOU think of your antivirus.

My answer to this would be:

AVG Internet Security 9.0.839
Database: 271.1.1/2993 (update today - 10/July/2010)

AVG Internet security treats portableapps.com well. I have not had a single
false positive with AVG Internet security yet.

I'm Building a computer and I have Qs

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
CORSAIR 750W Power Supply
LITE-ON Super Drive
GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
PNY GeForce GTS 250
Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB)

I'm just looking for a good gaming computer around a $1000

Through out the form you will find computer parts list that I have Qs about. All helping hands are welcome to join in.

Every single time you insert it in a Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer? Every time? Really? Even a brand-new drive, never been used, even when you've used the Safely Eject Hardware feature, or an equivalent Eject script (like the one in the PortableApps platform)?

Clearly this "feature" was meant to be something special, but ended up dead on arrival, basically asking you if you want to scan every single removable disk you insert, trying to frighten you with tales of damage that realistically have no basis in fact.

(Does this work how it's supposed to for anybody?)

Hello, this isn't software related but is certainly affecting my computer usage.
A flash drive has a fresh format, chkdsk shows no errors, so it should work OK and does until I take it to the school library computer and use it to save work files, download programs at high speed (8 mps) to the flash drive, etc.. Right now it is telling me the drive is unreadable and corrupted. I tried rebooting the school library computer to get a fresh boot but that didn't help. Other people here say their flash drives are working OK and the computer room people haven't a clue either.