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Dedicated USB Flash Drive?

Submitted by pea bod on December 6, 2011 - 5:20pm

Hi,
I suppose this may have been asked before....

when using portable apps and more specifically, stuff from PortableApps.com, do you need to have a dedicated USB Flash Drive?

In other words, can I download and install and use portable apps on my existing and in-use stick (USB Flash Drive)? OR...
Do I have to have a dedicated USB Stick which is only for the Portable apps use?

I was looking at some Puppy's the other day and in order to install to my Flash Drive from the live CD, I would lose all my data on my flash drive (so I didn't save it to my flash drive)

Portable App Traces

Submitted by Nimoy on December 5, 2011 - 10:55pm

According to the info Portable Apps
A portable app doesn't leave files or folders behind on the PC
A portable app doesn't leave registry entries behind except those automatically generated by Windows

My question is what is the benefit of something like Portable Iron? Since most PC come with either Firefox, Chrome or Explorer adding another browser would show up in the registry.

Media button redirection?

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Submitted by steamboat28 on December 3, 2011 - 6:10am

Is there a way to redirect the folder buttons on the side of the UI (Documents, Music, Video, etc.) to another place?

For example, I recently installed PortableApps on an external HDD that I use to back up my "My ____" folders on my Desktop.

Instead of pointing to G:\Apps\Documents and G:\Apps\Music (as they do now), it would make my life immeasurably easier if I could direct the buttons in the program to G:\Documents and G:\Music.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Java Portable Apps Packaged as Exe

Submitted by Marc27 on December 3, 2011 - 12:58am

Hello, I stumbled some apps like this one in the past. The big question is, is it possible to run them via Java Portable Launcher. So far I have been unable to do so. To name some portable java apps packaged as executables: DocFetcher, TVBrowser (which is I recap correctly is hosted in Sourceforge, hence opensource?)

Gentlemen : "Azureus PAF" is now possible !

Submitted by ut165 on December 2, 2011 - 11:50am

For YEARS we have been in need of a open-source portable torrent-client .
Well, the walk in the desert is over !

http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Portable_Vuze
This SOLVES the problem that prevented Azureus from going PAF for years :
Az used to save the absolute path of running torrents,
pretty bloody useless for our purpose !

Combined with the portable Java, compressed with 'The Tool' (or even better 'K-jar')
and stripped of all the fat (the files that aren't really required, as described in one of the .txt-files inside java)
this makes for one serious portable torrent-client !!

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