General Discussion

After many hard drive losses, I decided to keep all of my important data on my portable HDD. Now, at school someone decides to me a funny bastard and remove my HDD while in use. Now in dose not appear in My Computer or linux partition manger. (http://mcnlive.org/) Nor in acronis or Norton Partition magic 8.5. I NEED MY DATA BACK!!!! All of my source code is on there to for PAC Master!!!!!!!!!

Sumatra PDF Viewer is now portable:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

"It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive"

Must say first; many thanks, a fantastic app - as someone said 'it just works'

I have a widescreen laptop, and have my start menu on the left hand side of the screen. I would like for the Portable Apps Menu to pop up near the tray icon which is in the bottom left hand corner of my monitor instead of the bottom righthand corner as I currently have to mouse the whole width of the screen to get to the menu.

Is ther ny chnce of a hot key to bring up the menu as well?

Thanks

PJ

I've just noticed that all the screenshots feature some rather nice looking black (almost vista-style) borders, rather than the standard bright blue (or the other silver/green options normally available).

Can someone please tell me what utility did this.

Cheers.

Hello,

I have an Older USB 2.0 256 MB Flash Drive that copies a collection of 200MB files within four minutes but a New 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive takes more than 17 minutes to copy the same files from the same PC connected to the same port.

It shows about 140 minutes to copy Open Office portable in the Newer one. Due to this issue I have been unable to copy all my applications and files into it as it is showing that it will take more than five hours to do so.

Why is it so and how do I resolve this?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

Regards

I have been looking for a good way to sync my USB drive with a temp folder on my PC.
I found an OPENSOURCE program called UNISON.

Has anyone seen this?

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison

Its powerful as hell and I think this could make the backup of USB drives EXTREMELY customizable.

Thoughts?

I'm new here and this is my second day in your forum.

first of all thanks for your wonderful collection of portable apps and second that I can't understand is why don't you use QEMU Manager which is a portable GUI for QEMU to build your own compact virtual machine and run what ever you need on your virtual pc ????

http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm

in this way all your data is safe from infection by virus and making backup is as easy as copying your virtual hard disk file.

I have a created a short cut on my flash drive in the root Dir:

PStart[Home]
"H:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"

realizing that this would only work on my Home machine.

I plugged the drive into my machine at work.

The drive became "K:" as was expected.

I double clicked on the shortcut, expecting an error.
It was my intent to creat a new shortcut for the work machine.

I received NO ERROR. PStart launched as normal!!!
The shortcut CHANGED TO:
"H:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"

I tried this on another machine.
The drive became "G:"

How I understand it, the Portable Apps Menu is basically an open source form of the U3 Launchpad. Except I don't like U3's inavailability of free, open source apps. I especially hate the lack of Abiword U3. What are the main differences, and which would you recommend?

I am aware about all of the bulletins already posted about encryption and locking for your flash drive...But, a couple days ago, I was looking through the forums and found a link that showed the PortableApps Menu with a small box attached to the top for what I believe wass password portection, I've sepent hours looking through the forums but cannot find the post anymore. If anyone knows the link for this, could you please give it to me. Thanks.