General Discussion

Found this through lifehacker, gave it a shot, and look, it's out Firefox (and looks like several others but I haven't checked them yet, and doubt that they're be illegal)

http://www.technibble.com/computer-repair-utility-kit/

Have fun, get the copyright police on them!

I found this free Anti-virus through a google search http://www.mxone.net/en/ and was wondering if anyone has ever heard of it here and uses it to protect their flash drive.

I think at least one difference from something like ClamWin portable is this runs in real time detecting changes as they occur, so you could catch a virus loading on to your flash drive right away.

So any opinions of this AV? Does it look safe to use?

Thanks.

Hi,

I intend to download openoffice (portable) using a download manager.

Does the server support Resume?

Thanks

Don't exactly know where to put this, so its going here.

Looking through the temp folder one day, i found various combination of folders like nsq2EB.tmp. Shouldn't part of the cleanup of portable programs remove the files it created in the temporary folder?

Cmon, its portable, meaning leaving NO traces on the computer. If an admin or someone else with elevated privliges looks at your temp folder, they have a nice long list of portable programs you used.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_computer_repair_utility_kit.php

Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.

Uses some portable apps.

Wondering if Portable Apps are just as good as a semi-permanent solution for day to day use as opposed to their installed brethren.

I chatted about this earlier, but papps broke pretty good during a back up last night. I set the backup in motion and when I came in this morning, it said it had finished and was complete.

But the drive wouldn't allow me to access anything. It showed up as zero size and would run Chkdsk. When I ejected the drive and put it back in, it would prompt for autorun, but then would ask what program to use to open the file. It shows no files on it whatsoever.

RELOAD THIS PAGE TO ENSURE YOU GET THE UPDATED CSS FILE

I'm working on adding the ability to more easily quote what others have posted in the forums. It'll probably be implemented as an add-on allowing you to click a "Quote" button below a user's post. But appearance-wise, it'll look like:

John T. Haller I heard that a number of people like quotes in forums and things like that. Do you like the ability to do pretty quotes like this?

This is accomplished using the following code in the post:

Great news for Flash-drive users, exFAT is now also available for XP ..

I highly recommend you install the hotfix and test exFAT .
Performance is excellent, file-system overhead negligible .
If you set the cluster-size to the same as your devices block-size it
outperforms all other generally available file-systems ..

The exFAT file system incorporates several improvements over FAT32. However, it keeps the simplicity of FAT-based file systems. These improvements include the following key advances:

* Support for very large files and storage devices

link to illegal site removed
After a merciless spoof of the PortableApps.com logo, I decided I should tell you guys about this. I'm sure John would like to know about this.
That site stole pretty much everything from this site...