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with the GIMP? I am not paying $800 for Photoshop.

Does anyone know of a menu app that doesnt try to write to the drive when it starts up?

PortableApps menu tries to write to every folder on startup which seems very strange and unneccessary to me!

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I have a U3 usb flash disk and I want to remove U3 and install PortableApps.
How can delete everything (there are two virtual drives) and install portableapps?

hi all i just got my 4gb flash pen today and been filling it with everything off this site except gaim as i run gaim 2.0 b6 on pc and here its only 2.0b5 so when is it going to be updated ? also can the guifications 2.1.3b6 work with it b5 or when the b6 version comes online here ? and is the new p.a.m with theme support a beta or released ?

It is called Floppy Office, Floppy Office is a tiny suite filled with tiny, but usefull apps, they appear truly portable since I saw them writing their settings in .ini files rather than the registry, probably cause the app are from the days of Windows 98, but they will work on XP, not sure about Vista, since I never used Vista.

But here is the link: http://www.xtort.net/office-and-productivity/floppy-office/

I couldn't find a topic to express how glad I am that this project exists, so I am simply putting it here.

I have been searching for stuff like that for months, even years, to make a fresh install of a machine easier and less time consuming. You need one hour for Windows and another three hours for the applications to install. If you packaged Windows and applications in a slipstreamed version or an unattended installation, the minute you have finished packaging, the applications are outdated and new ones would come out. Only because of Microsoft sticking to the registry philosophy.

Not sure if any knows about or caught this, but it's pretty cool

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64554/description.html

Is there any way (under 20 steps and using 3rd party software) to rename the menu listings? i.e. Turning "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition" into "Firefox"?

Also, I'm having trouble getting the autorun.ini to.... well...... auto run...
It's installed on the root of the drive and looks like it has the correct syntax.. but I'm not positive...

I recall seeing a post once that a member was longing for a fax viewer. A lot of image viewers will read a front page but not multiple pages. I used eFAX for a while and then a UK based service. XP i'm told does cope with multiple pages but how well.

I discovered a 3rd party addon called AlternaTIFF which is available for FREE not listed in Mozilla addons (last update Nov 2006) - versions for IE, Netscape and other browsers. Also a free basic (lightweight) portable one called Tiff Viewer by www.compact.uk.com.