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Portable Personal Finance Manager

Submitted by twnty3svn on June 16, 2006 - 12:16pm

I've serached everywhere, this forum, google and a host of other site and cannot find a portable personal finance manager. There is finance software for Palm and Pocket PC, but none (that i can find) for USBs.

AceMoney Lite (http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemoney/) is a good solution, however it is not portable (it creates 26 keys and 52 values). Attempted to make it portable using Deuce's QuickPort NSIS Template v1.1, however i do not have enough knowledge to do so.

Pop-up blocker?

Submitted by Jorlwind on June 15, 2006 - 8:20pm

I hate asking at forum's that i'm not a long-time member, and it seems like i've already done it too much here. I'm just hoping you guys can help.

Basically there's a small story here. My sister's boss is having computer problems, some sort of adware problem(i won't know exactly what i'm dealing with until I get there) but i was sort of drafted against my will into taking a bit of a look at it. (to earn her some good points with her new boss)

there's a small problem though. The computer is suposed to have a bad popup issue. hopefully booting up in safemode will disable them but just in case i was wondering if there was a portable popup blocker?

Password Protect Folders on USBs

Submitted by twnty3svn on June 14, 2006 - 5:12am

I know there has been alot of discussion about file encrypters, however has anyone got any recomendations about any USB Folder Protectors. I have been researching Keynesis Lockngo program, and that seems great to lock down your drive, however i just want to lock certain folders (with out encrypting/or with, but fast access).

Folder Password Expert USB seems good, but trial version dosn't really allow enough options to work with, and Folder Lock, is good, but i'd prefer to have a program with keyboard shortcuts that allow me to unlock folders (similar to Universal Shield).

Is there such

Has anyone had any real sucess with using MiniUp back up software?

Submitted by techguyone on June 11, 2006 - 6:02am

This in theory is a good idea, a portable back up utility, tell it source and destination folders, and it backs up your data.

Wel I tried this just now with just 3.70 mb of files. It launched, I got a progress indicator up, then.... well a LOT of hard drive activity, task manager said the process was still running, 10 mins later I got bored, killed with task manager.
Has anyone else tried this program?
I know flash drives don't exactly set the world on fire with read/write speeds but still... 3.70 mbs isn't a lot of files.

"Relative" Paths for Shortcuts on Portable Drives?

Submitted by CallMeZoot on June 10, 2006 - 3:52pm

Hi,

I have my portable applications in a "Program Files" folder on my Thumbdrive.

I have shortcuts to these programs in the root directory, but these only work on computers where my thumbdrive has the same drive letter.

Is it possible to make a "relative" path to these applications, so that my Shortcut links will work no matter what the drive letter is? If not, any other tips for quick startup of applications?

Thanks,
chris.

REALLY Strict company, apps must be completly Portable or I get Fired

Submitted by techguyone on June 9, 2006 - 1:30pm

The company I work for is VERY strict about installing/running software on thir PC's so any apps I use MUST not alter anything at all on the host PC, below is the list of Apps I currently have, cast your eyes over them and let me know if any write to the registry or do anything to the host PC.

PStart
Portable Firefox
YadaDisk encryption
Portable Thunderbird
Portable Sunbird
Portable FileZilla
Portable NVU
Trillian anywhere (as specified on the website)
xops096 game
FS Viewer (Image viewer)
PhotoFiltre (Image editor)
CDex CD-Ripper
Portable VLC media player
Open Office suite
Portable ClamWin AV

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