General Discussion

I bought U3; I notice that many of the portable apps here are not U3 compliant. The U3 launcher seems to me a good idea (especially if I am to pass these around to folks who have difficulty with Windows explorer). On the other hand, not clear it's R0eady For Prime Time. Would I do better to place additional orders for Plain Old flash drives and save the $10?

Having decided that larger, and cheaper (...) flash drives could solve some portability problems (mostly, my aching back and a wallet that did not allow for a new Portégé), I started looking around at what was available. I fixed on a 4gb SanDisk U3 model and two 2gb Kingston U3 models (good price at buy.com; free shipping; no sales taxes; substantial rebates available; acceptable return policy). I am encountering a strange phenom with the Kingston drives (the SanDisk not having arrived yet).

If I connect the Kingston U3 drives to my XP notebook or Mrs. Jenner's deskside XP machine, things work as expected. The drive installs; it ejects and things go swimmingly. If I connect the same drives to my deskside XP machine, a number of things happen:

A nice feature for the launcher would be the ability to rename the launcher and have it use an .ini file with the same name. So this way, if I changed the name of FirefoxPortable.exe to, say, FeedMeNow.exe, it would use FeedMeNow.ini. PStart does this with its settings file, and it would be nice to see the PortableApps.com launcher do the same. It would keep my PortableApps directory clean (I'm OCD when it comes to stuff like this), anyway, since I currently have a PFF launcher named "Firefox Portable.exe" (note the space).

About contributions:

I am a very grateful person, and I do recognize the afford and merit of those people who create free programs, not only to run on USB drives, but all kinds of free software.

I use free software like open office, abi word, foxit reader, portable apps, etc. (I have a 1 Mb USB drive fully loaded with all kind of free stuff) I want to contribute with money (not much of course), but in my country is very difficult for common people to access to international payment facilities as “pay pal” or credit cards; so folks like me (maybe hundreds or thousands) CAN NOT contribute.

My question is this, is there a way to surf annymously at work. At work we have a network and they use websense and i guess they can see every website that you go to. I don't know if websense works with firefox, but i know that in ie websense can see everywhere you went. I want to surf anonymously, is there a portable app that allows this.
thanks
rs

I've been trying to release the new Firefox Portable for 2 hours now (since 9am) but have been held up by an issue within SourceForge. I have a ticket into support (priority support since I'm a SF member) and hope to have things running again soon.

Hello i am new to the forum, i have been using Portable TB, and latly Portable Gaim, but i now need a portable program i can use to see web cams, at home i use yahoo and thats part of the deal but with Gaim either i dont have that option or i dont know how to, any advise will be apricated

riedog

Hello All,

My stopzilla www.stopzilla.com yells at every portable*.exe, i downloaded here, that there is a Yazzle by OIN threat. No problem there is adware but why can't i find any information on this site/forum about it?
Or is there something else going on?

Information on Yazzle by OIN
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/uninstall/1740/Yazzle-by-OIN.html

Name: Yazzle by OIN
Description: Add/Remove Programs entry for a Yazzle product. Yazzle software has been known to be installed without your permission via security exploits. Their end user license agreement, which can be read when installing their products, indicate that these are Clickspring, the makers of Purityscan, products and are bundled with the Outer Info Network Client, or OIN client.

How do I make sure that files don't become corrupted? Some Fx cache files and a few other random files were corrupted. I ran chkdsk, and that seemed to fix everything, but it's probably because I caught it before it became severe. And because the drive's FS is NTFS. I know there are problems when the drive inserted properly, but I make sure it fits. *sigh*

I figured I'd drop another status update in as it has been a few days. The power problems continue throughout my area of New York City. I started getting mostly usable power yesterday. About 100 volts with occasional dips. Enough so I can run off my UPS with a voltage regulator and get a solid 120 to my PC. But not enough to use my desktop and AC at the same time. It's been 5 days and it's now hitting the front page of CNN and The NY Times. ConEd is estimating 25,000 "customers" in my area. Of course, my 16-unit apartment building is considered a single customer... so estimates are at least 100,000 people affected.