General Discussion

I have this stupid little 119MB USB stick drive. I installed Portable XAMPP Lite and MediaWiki on it and I only have 3MB left but the cool thing is that IT WORKS!! I now have a mobile server-side programming learning lab on a stick - all thanks to this site! YOU GUYS ROCK!!

I'm looking into the Sandisk line of USB drives, maybe the Titanium or whatever it's called.. but I've read reviews on the U3 program being annoying/hard to remove.

Is this true, and if so.. is there a way to completely remove it to where it's an empty USB drive like others you buy?

Thanks in advance for the help..

If you need to compile a program, try using Compilr.
This should be as good as having a portable compiler.
Edit: I also found an online Java compiler.
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How do you all organize the root of your Portable?

Post how you have everything organized/arranged.. or even a screenshot.

I recently started using a cheap 128mb USB drive I got for Christmas last year..

AFter using it to just transfer pics from one PC to another.. I got addicted to trying to keep all of my handy programs on it.

Now, it's just not big enough..

If any of you could recommend good quality USB Drives, I'd appreciate it.

I have been looking at the Lexar models: Lightning and Secure II

Either a 1 or 2 gig would be plenty for me.. (for now)

Thanks alot!

Just curious,

When will the remaining apps be renamed? I use Portable Gimp and Portable OOo2 all the time. When the names are changed will I have to completely reinstall and lose any settings? Thanks.

This might have been answered somewhere else, but I could not find it. Thanks

Hey Guys,

Was just wondering if any of you remember hearing about a device that when plugged into a machine's USB port would take over said computer and boot into its own operating system complete with all necessary applications and workspace. I think I came across it on Tom's HG but I can't seem to find it.

It seems like such a device would really benefit a lot of the people on this forum. Maybe the cost was prohibitive or something and hence it doesn't get talked about much, if ever. It's even hard to know what to search for to find such a thing.

The reason behind this is to have a portable work environment complete with every application needed for work, not just the apps that are portable ATM. That way you could have a virtual machine of sorts in your pocket (or backpack, if it's big hdd), and just plug it into some host computer and take over their CPU, memory, and other resources.

Do any of the programs at The Portable Freeware Collection write to the drive heavily?

I have a Kingston DTI/1GB USB 2.0 Hi-speed flash drive. So far, I've loaded the following apps:

• PStart
• AbiWord Portable
• Foxit PDF Reader
• VLC Media Player Portable
• ImgBurn
• Avira UnErase Personal
• CPU-Z
• CCleaner Portable
• Unstoppable Copier
• Windows Worms Doors Cleaner
• Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition
• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
• AleJenJes Countdown Timer

I have an email that I can see when I use TBP but when I use the full TB on my desk top computer the email isn't there. When I log onto the cox.net website and log in to my mail it is not there either. Is it stuck in my portable because it first was seen with that program?

I wanted to get some general thoughts on a directory structure for data for use with the portable apps. I'm planning on building in some support for a default data structure to all the apps. You'll be able to change it with an INI, of course, but if you use the defaults, it'll just work. And the next release of the suite will include this directory setup by default.

I had been planning on a directory layout that was patterned after Windows XP, so users would be familiar with it (albeit without the silly "My" business):

/(root)
  /Documents
    /Music
    /Pictures
    /Videos