General Discussion

Hi!
I just found a page with nice cmdline tools for ejecting (RemoveDrive), changing driveletter (ReMount) and deleting mountoints (DelMountPoint).
I'm evaltuating them at the moment but it looks like something i've been looking for some time (cmd-line and fast!).

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html

Boy, this autorun topic is full of conflicts, successes, and failures. I think I've read every post and thread on the subject. I couldn't get any of several prescribed autorun.inf to work on my 2K SP4 OS, and my trial Ceedo usually did but sometimes didn't. I want my 2gb Sandisk Mini to not only carry files, but assist me in my computer repair business. I wanted it to open to the Pstart menu.

I have a lot of clients still running 98, let alone 2K and XP. So, it was important to me that a solution would work cross OS. And we all know how 98 doesn't like mass storage devices.

A page on this forum linked to Torosoftware for their Auto Run USB program. It was pretty poor. However, when I later went to their home page instead of the link, I found out that the link was for version 1.0 and they are now at 3.0! I installed it and it worked great. Then I discovered the flaw........

Staples.com is selling the 1 GB Cruzer Micro for $35 after Mail In Rebate. U3 ready according to U3.com, and tiny as all get out for 1GB. Offer expires 2/25/06 so if you want one, get it now.

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

Just a note to all. I'm away for a few days due to an illness in the family. I will be posting infrequently (late night) and I was not able to do the 3 app releases I was hoping to do this week. I will get to them when I return.

UPDATE (Monday 2/27): I'll be returning on Wednesday and I'll post a note on status then. Thank you for the well-wishes.

Regards,
John

This is a noob question.

I am not allowed to browse certain websites at work obviously. Some being xanga and myspace.

CNRC began monitoring what sites we go on about 3 months ago. They have been cracking down on people playing yahoo games and such.

As long as I'm on the exchange server, are they still going to be able to monitor my web trail even if I use portable firefox? I know it leaves no personal data behind, but will they still be able to track which pages I go on?

John, I'd recommend adding the <pre> element into the allowed HTML for the site and stop the bad use of stlyes you've got on <code>

<code> is for inline text, so I could put a short snippet of code in the middle of a line of text (e.g. echo "test";) and <pre> is for big blocks of preformatted text:

This   text   has   lots of   spaces in it,
but   they  won't   show properly until John
allows   <pre> elements   on his   website

I doubt it will be helpful anywhere outside this post, but the codefilter module is interesting, and it

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

Please test it and report bugs.

This may be a weird problem with my computer...

Whenever I try to open UPX.exe, a command screen pops up for ~.5 seconeds before closing again. If I try to keep it open by going to Properties and changing it, it opens and stays open. However, it doesn't work. Curious...

And I realize that this is a UPX problem, and not a portable apps problem, but I was hoping that someone could help me out. Thanks in advance.

Oh yeah, I'm running XP Service Pack 2.

I can't seem to get nsis.properties to do much in Scite. All the other languages work fine except this one. It's not showing in my languages menu and doesn't seem to affect the display of *.nsi files at all.

Strangely, Sc1 seems to load it's internal copy of nsis.properties, but won't use the copy in my Scite folder. i.e. I can't edit how it's displaying NSIS files.

Any ideas?

This is a little project I've been working on for a while now. I've spent more time trying to get permission to redistribute certain programs than actually finding and testing suitable programs, unfortunately.

"PC First Aid Kit" is a collection of freeware capable of being run from USB, geared towards diagnostics and investigating/resolving PC problems ranging from malware/virus infections to emergency alternatives to common programs. This is the first release candidate. The final release of v1.0 will be when I get a website for it up and running, and finish tweaking the kit. You guys are the first to see this kit and I'd appreciate any feedback and suggestions. Keep in mind that any programs you want to suggest must be freeware and able to run from USB. Open source is preferred but not critical.