General Discussion

This may sound stupid or not even possible but, is there a way to make your portable apps start automatically without the autrun menu. Our school on some of the computers has blocked that autorun startup menu. I have to take a long and complicated way around to get to my files. Is there a way to bypass autorun and still startup.

thanks in advance

Hi guys, great forum you got here! I have a quick question. I am wanting to set up a flash drive to run apps. The problem I am finding is when I install portable apps to the drive it works fine. If I take it to another computer, Windows may assign it a different drive letter then the apps dont work because the path is wrong. I want to set up my drive to run much like a normal desktop setting. I have two options the way I see it and was wanting feedback from you all on the subject.

Ok, Here's a thread where you can rate your flash drive(s) on a scale of 1-10, and list some of it's pros/cons.
(I just thought this might be interesting, and also informative for those who are looking to purchase a new USB drive)

My Flash Drive: (Name of Drive, with or without link to picture)
Capacity:
Rating: (1-10)
Pro's:
Cons:

Mine is:

My Flash Drive: SanDisk Cruzar Micro

I've been wondering ever since this site started why you only support Microsoft Windows (and I've finally bothered to get myself a forum account). Thanks for offering a great service BTW.

It would really be useful, for Portable Apps where this is possible, to have an archive that includes the binaries for MSW, GNU/Linux and MacOS with shared settings.

SourceForge.net has PortableApps on the 50th place of the All-Time Top Downloads and 14th place this week for Top 100 Projects by Downloads. Congratulations John!

This is probably not the right place to ask... but If you don't ask, you don't receive an answer...

I'm using PStart, when I close PStart, I have an entry to convey with -exit and "run on exit" that works very good.

I just want to know if there is a way like that (I don't see this kind of command lines in help files on other apps) to close/exit/quit, not kill, apps like specifically KeePass, nPOP and stickies...

Thanks in advance.-

How do I uninstall it? I've tried deleting everything but there is still hidden files on the drive.

A flash drive is conventionally recognised in Windows as Removable, but there are advantages to getting it recognised as Local, like the built in hard drive and external IDE drives.

>> there is a thread around here describing that problem ...

Couldn't find it unfortunately: so I'm sorry if I end up repeating well-known stuff, or -- worse -- stealing somebody else's thunder.

>> Windows only supports one mounted partition on a flash-drive.
>> Linux doesn't have this limitation so once again it's M$ deciding
>> for you what you may or may not do with your hardware.

...Hey guys & gals, here's one to puzzle over:

I DLd some Linux ISOs onto my sister's PC a cpl days ago, and put 'em on my 4 GB thumbdrive by way of "moving" 'em there.
I went home to transfer them to my own PC, and while the File Mgr recognized that they were on there and told me their (correct) filesizes, it refused to move them on over to my PC. It generated an error message that the files were "corrupt" and "unreadable", advising me to run scandisk/checkdisk on the thumbdrive.

Old news, I'm aware, but I wanted to see your thoughts on this.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-11SanDisk07PR.msp...

Apparently, Microsoft is teaming up with Sandisk to develop (or replace) U3 to make it more customizable.

"The new offering will be designed so that users can carry their personal computing environment — including a customized and familiar user interface, applications and data — on a flash storage device such as a USB flash drive or flash memory card."