General Discussion

Alright i'm standing at a cross roads my old USB died the other day and its time for an upgrade. My problem is this U3 Vs PAM which is better. Can i use U3 apps on Pam or vice versa is there a way to convert them? And i tend to get random applications and put them on my usb drive can i make it so that i can easily access those from the menu interface?? Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated

When I try to import my email settings from Netscape 7.2 into Thunderbird portable it only give me a choice of Netscape 4.0. How do I get me email settings imported. Thanks.

Yeah I know I'm not John Haller. Sorry. I should add I don't even know him. I just visit here.

Interestingly there seems to be no mention of this new update on the front page. I only found out because BetaNews linked to it, and the Firefox Portable page itself shows the new version. So I figured I'd post a topic in case anyone else missed it.

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Annnd here's Firefox 2.0.0.9 release notes for good measure:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.9/releasenotes/

Hey guys! I have been working on making a ton of u3 compatible programs. I recently hosted about 17 out of 25 on my blog. This is including Adaware 2007 and Google Earth.

Cheers Mates

[Link to illegal software removed by moderator JTH. You must have the permission of the publisher to repackage non-open source software.]

have fun and comment me

I've been using the fabulous XrX PortableApps Menu Mod (I hope the additional features will eventually make it to the official version). I have been using the startup/exit functionality as well as the ability to execute VBScripts. I have some custom programs that require writing to the registry, so I wrote a bit of VBScript code to handle this. I created a directory in the PortableApps folder called Scripts and placed two .vbs files: start.vbs and exit.vbs.

I close all of my open programs then use the eject button on the MOD R30 PAM, I get the message that all programs on the drive are being close and after that the drive can be ejected. When all is finished, and I try to eject my drive, I get:

"The device 'Generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later."

If I run EjectScript 0.4 on my drive, it tells me that there is nothing running on the drive. So what is keeping the drive from being ejected?

Hey, I hope I didn't just miss this when I searched, but when the PAM searches for EXEs it includes EVERY EXE in a given folder. Is there a way I can remove the extra EXEs, like the ubiquitus w9xpopen?

Thanks a bunch, I use this every day!

~Geek1

John and all,

I really love PortableApps, and my dream would be to have the same little usb key working on windows, linux and mac os. I ran into http://openlina.org and it seems to me that this project makes that dream achievable. I could, of course, do my own open source project to merge the 2 concepts (PortableApps + OpenLina) but it would make much more sense that it comes from PortableApps.com.

Any thoughts?

-Lionel

Hi all

I'm trying to get the Smithtech applauncher util to work on my sandisk u3 drive.

I've successfully replaced the u3 partition with the custom iso that i downloaded from the smithtech website.

I also added truecrypt and its related files to the iso file using UltraISO so that it would keep my storage area clean.

when i try to add truecrypt as a startup option, clicking either the "save settings" or the "apply all" button gives me the following error:


Run-time error '-2147024891 (80070005)':

Access is denied.


U3 really doesn't work! At first I tried to use my dad's, but then it said it doesn't work on Vista! Then I got a newer one for my birthday, and OpenOffice for U3 (Which by the way they got from John T. Halley) said soffice.exe wasn't working! I'm removing it at this very moment.