General Discussion

Hello,
I'm looking for information on how to lock down and secure both my Flash Drive and Portable Apps within it just in case I do something stupid like leave it somewhere that I shouldn't or lose it.
As you can imagine, someone accessing the contents of my Flash Drive could be devastating.

I'd appreciate any info.
Thanks

Ken

Hello,
First of all, it's amazing to see how far Portable Apps has come in just a few years. I remember John promoting Firefox Portable (or was it Portable Firefox) on the old Spread Firefox site and on his own old site.
Admittedly, I probably didn't make a good impression with John considering how outspoken I was about his efforts to show Firefox users how to make Firefox look just like IE. I just figured that Firefox is Firefox and it should look like anything but IE and people learn new software every day and so they should and would get used to Firefox's interface.

Is there a portable app that can read CHM files? I know there is a plugin for firefox but I am trying to avoid that route since my IT department is on the lookout for anyone using any browser other than IE. Thanks for any info. GD

Hi. I was just wondering whether Audacity is a lossless editor like mp3DirectCut, or does it decompress->edit->recompress?

Also, what are the other pros and cons of both of them?

I installed the portable platform (just the menu and autorundata) I changed the icon to my own icon instead of the site icon and I cant get the menu to automatically open when I insert the drive.

This is what my autorun file looks like:

[quote]
[Autorun]
Open=StartPortableApps.exe
Action=Start PortableApps.com
ICON=memory card 2.ico
[/quote]

Can anyone help me make the portable apps menu automattically open rather than clicking it?

Hi Guys,

After searching the entire day trying to find a post (by MarkoM I think) that specifies how to fix the false positive the Bat_To_Exe_Converter creates and that can be fixed by replacing UPX? with UPC?, I give up and hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

I used Bat_To_Exe Converter to make a ghost exe of a very simple bat file. Avast detects it as a trojan whenever PAM launches.

As I understood the post in question there is a way to edit? the exe to remove the false positive detection.

Thanks in advance for the help.

The .NET framework comes through Windows Update and is classified as "Important". I know because I got it today. Now I don't know how updates work on XP nowadays, but the default in Vista is to download and install all updates as soon as they are found. This means that almost all machines with an internet connection running Vista will have .NET 3.5 now. Of course, this doesn't mean .NET is no longer a dependency to worry about since XP is still what one typically encounters, but those who routinely work with Vista will now likely to be able to use .NET apps without worry.

Hello everyone,

I'm about to buy an USB stick. I've experienced PortebleApps before and i loved it!
But now there is no good way to easely secure your device with an password. At least, not the way like U3 does, mount the device, and first a password, before you can do annything. But the U3 has not the portable apps i want (xammp, Notepad++ and so on).

Okay I have been visiting pen drive apps and pen drive linux which is very similar to portable apps allot lately. I have knowticed that pen drive linux has their own linux distribution or version of linux. Are there any plans that the portable apps community has to make their own linux distribution? When I saw that linux was coming soon I was thinking about something like Ubuntu or Mandriva or Fedora.

I am making a directory for you if you want to run linux,
Persistent linux- A boot-able linux.
Vm Linux-Linux- As a quest opperating system under windows.

Almost all of you could find this sites useful.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
http://www.linux.com/distributions/
Persistent
Try Unetbootin. It will make supportive hardware of portable memory bootable.
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html
*Many distributions of linux have utilities to make their distribution bootable on a usb drive.
Also try infra recorder to burn a disk image to a cd.