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Resolution Change... Autorun?

Submitted by Howwarrd on April 24, 2007 - 5:27pm

I currently use Autorun + a batch file to load up my apps and get everything running quicker with my USB thumb drive for work. My questions is... is it possible to change the display resolution using either a command line, or a small application that can be run from a thumb drive? This is all happeneing on Windows XP Pro machines with up to date Windows antiviral etc...

I want to...

Submitted by .hiddenFile on April 24, 2007 - 1:43pm

download a folder on a web page (via Firefox) full of PDFs. However, I want to zip it at the same time using 7-Zip portable. Is there a way to do that? I've tried typing in the folder in the folder line, but that didn't help.

Link to document?

Submitted by deived on April 24, 2007 - 12:50pm

I looked around and didnt find anything specific on this. I'm sure it's here somewhere but couldnt find anything clear.

PAM searches for .exe to list items in the menu. Is there a way to link to any other type of document? I use StickWiki which is a single .html and I'd like to be able to access it from PAM. The way I access now is through a shortcut on the root of the drive to point to the wiki which is in /documents/wiki/stickwiki.html

Crashes everytime menu item is loaded

Submitted by tony1284 on April 24, 2007 - 12:42pm

I just installed the light (and tried the basic and full versions) and with all three each time I load up portapps the menu will load fine. Once I click on any program, folder, setting, search, help, etc... (basically anything) within the menu it will load the program just fine but portapps always crashes and brings up an error message saying it encountered a problem and needs to close.

I'm running on winxp sp2 1.6ghz amd turion 64 mobile 1gb ram HP laptop. The basic programs I have running all the time are: AIM, Gmail notifier, dreamweaver, photoshop, firefox, flashfxp, and notepad.

Forum Update

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Submitted by Simeon on April 24, 2007 - 2:35am

John,

If I see it correctly, no one has a word about the new Forum optics. They aren't that new any more (bout 2 weeks old now) but I like them. I had to get used to it but I like them.
I didn't discover the best thing until today which is the statistics section. Knowing how many registered users we have (25,511) and how many guests (900) is cool and I was impressed by those numbers.

Thanks for making this public!

U3 FTL PortableApps.com FTW

Submitted by dellartepc on April 23, 2007 - 9:52pm

LOL I had a U3 drive for sometime now. A buddy at work had a plain flash drive and seen me use my U3 and wanted one. I knew about PortableApps.com but never bothered with it since I purchased a drive with U3 on it already. So I took his drive and and installed PortableApps base and added apps. He loved it...AND SO DID I!!!

How do you install

Submitted by mashalpha on April 23, 2007 - 11:57am

this may sound stupid but how do you instal an app like portable scribus
i know it will run if i open the folder and click the exe
but im greedy i want it to have an icon in my portable apps menu.
Thanks
Mike

oh if it helps im running a wd 160 passport

I have a portable app for Data Synchronization

Submitted by Seven Alive on April 20, 2007 - 6:16pm

I have made a really cool, easy but advanced Data Backup and Sync program. I made it with .Net 2.0 in C# and its completely portable.
Features:
One Way (Source > Destination) Sync and Backup
Bi-Directional (Source Destination) Sync
Smart Sync - Deletes files not found on source (available to One Way sync only)
Include or Exclude Subfolders
File Wildcards (only want to sync txt files in a directory? well with pipeline you can)
Directories support relative paths (portable use!)
Password Protect Backups.
Run Multiple jobs.

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