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Music Database

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Submitted by Chameleonbeetle on May 13, 2010 - 8:04pm

I've got ANT Catalogue for my movies and I was just wondering if there was something similar for music. All I keep finding are music players, but I would like to be able to keep information about songs such as lyrics, and be able to do some of the things that can be done with things like MS Access (but without having to set up my own db).

Just got a laptop, apps stay portable or install?

Submitted by lakeywhite on May 13, 2010 - 7:23pm

It is my first computer since discovering portable apps, I have many on a flash drive that I used because I did not have anything to install what I want onto.
I was looking for opinions whether I should now install all my favourite apps or just copy the portable apps folder onto my laptop and run them from there as if they are portable?
Which method would be better? I get the privacy from the portable format or the full install will give me full integration.

A question about constantly inserting and removing things from the registry hives.

Submitted by spchtr on May 13, 2010 - 7:27am

I'm just a bit curious.

If I have this right, alot of the PortableApps launchers when initiated, inserts things (settings and such) to the registry. Then when you close the program in question it then deletes those changes that it had made.

Doesn't this cause registry fragmentation? And since it's doing it every time these programs start up and close out, isn't it happening an awful lot? I thought registry fragmentation was bad, and, incidentally would be an undesirable change to the host system which the programs in question had been run on.

Is this not the case?

Winlog.exe--What is it?

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Submitted by Pyromaniac on May 11, 2010 - 3:48pm

Ok, I've done numerous google searches, and kinda learned it was a virus and malware and such, but I'm not sure what it does in terms of to a flash drive. One of my teachers had a virus like that and when I inserted my drive into her computer, I think I caught it from her. On my computer, I couldn't autorun my PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 4 because Sophos said 'autorun.inf' and 'winlog.exe' were viruses.

I never had a virus before, so I don't know what the extent of the virus does... whether it just stays hidden in the root directory or if it goes through all the directories.

[Patents] Microsoft Patents Portable Applications

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Submitted by digitxp on May 7, 2010 - 4:50pm

Network World On Tuesday, Microsoft was awarded a U.S. patent for "portable applications." The description of this innovative technology? Running an executable file from a flash device.

Does this mean anything to PortableApps.com over here? It mentions “portable applications that can be executed from a portable memory device (such as a USB flash drive) without impacting the configuration of the computer,” but also “can run an application on an attached computer solely from the flash drive.”

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