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A43 Filemanager

Submitted by Frank D. Hubeny on July 19, 2006 - 7:59am

Hello Group;

I have been useing a item called "A43". It is a portable file manage with a ziper built into it. It works fine and leaves no registry entries. The latest version works on Win2KP, and Win XP.

It may work on older OS's but is notr tested on them. You may be able to download earlier version. Do a web search for it "A43"

FRANK D. HUBENY

Outlook Sync

Submitted by alpha752 on July 18, 2006 - 6:26pm

Please forigve my ignorance, but I was wondering if there was a portable app that would allow me to sync my outlook mail from work onto the USB. We use outlook at work, and I would like to sync all my mail onto my USB for storage and archiving. Is there such a program?

Thanks

Portable Firefox and Thunderbird Release Delay (Updated: Wed July 19)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 18, 2006 - 11:03am

Just wanted to drop a note regarding the delay. Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird were going to be released this morning at 8am NY time. But Con Ed, the power company in NYC, has been supplying power with an 8% reduction in voltage (read: sub-standard voltage that doesn't play well with electronics) to portions of the city for the past 14 hours. As such, I am unable to bring my primary development systems or UPSes online. I've got my laptop setup as a backup and my internet is intermittent (which is how I'm posting this). There's no ETA on when usable power will be restored to the affected areas. I'll post more when I can.

TrueCrypt problem

Submitted by azjerry on July 14, 2006 - 11:53am

I use several batch files on my USB drive. One starts Pstart and mounts a TC drive. When I exit PStart the other unmounts the TC drive, kills any processes that might be running off the drive and unmounts the USB drive.

On my XP SP1 PC at work all is fine. But on my XP SP2 PC at home the batch files freeze on the TC commands to mount/unmount. If I kill the cmd window (killing the TC) command, the TC drive does eventually showup/go away.

The mount command is
\TrueCrypt\truecrypt.exe /v p:\TrueCrypt\truecrypt /lQ /q

and the unmount command is
\TrueCrypt\truecrypt.exe /dQ /q

Any id

Automatic Drive Letter Selection

Submitted by pjoseph on July 14, 2006 - 2:07am

Greetings,

I use a portable 80Gig USB drive where ever I go. When I plug-into someone else's machine, I run an initialization batch to setup the drive letters, enviroment vars, path settings, etc, the way I like. Then, on departure, I have a shutdown batch to put everything back.

A common setting that I have read about, including in this forum, is a batch to allow you to select the Drive Letter of your portable. This is then set to an enviroment variable for use with portable apps.

I didn't like having to always enter the drive letter, so I wrote an automatic method using the DEBUG utility to generate an errorlevel equal to the drive letter. I then substitute drive letter P: for that drive. (I haven't ever had to deal with a system that already used P:, or if it did, I didn't need access to that drive.)

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