General Discussion

Hey all,

I just wanted to post a quick status update so everybody knows what's happening. As most folks have noticed, there was a month or so hiatus between releases. While that was going on, the installer and platform were basically finalized. You can see pieces of this in the new graphics attached to the current Firefox and Toucan Pre-Release (help files and splash screens) as well as the new installer used for Toucan that's multilingual (if you can help localize the installer, please do).

Forgive my ignorance, I just thought Id ask whether it was possible to setup or run virtual drives using software stored on a USB stick. I recently bought some dictionary software which I would like to take with me, but it requires the CD to run. To avoid this I made an image of the CD and now just mount it on my laptop as required. Getting it to run off a USB stick would be excellent though. Short of cracking it to avoid the CD check is there anything anyone can reccomend. Cheers

download instant lock (www.instantlock.net) and leave the setup file on the root of the thumbdrive. you have to install the program on each pc you use portable apps this way, which is a bummer but it works fine otherwise

then i put keepass portable on the root of the thumbdrive too. that way i can use keypass without opening portable apps. also there is no need to lockup the keepass database twice.

open instant lock and create a password. now every pc you install instant lock on you just use the same password and it will find the hidden/locked folder.

Hello @all,
for all that don't use tracker or have the focus on the BETA Forum.
Here: https://portableapps.com/node/9813
You'll find a development release of OpenOffice.org Portable.

@John and all, please let me know what You think about it.

Could this be a future solution?
If not, what's wrong with it?
Better ideas?

Edit:
Maybe it is the rigth way to answer this questions in the original post in the beta forum.

Thank You!

Regards
Marko

How can I change the drive name and ICON back to the default ICON and drive name of my choice

thank you for your consideration

pg

I was wondering if anyone had done any research into the wear that applications like firefox would have on a flash drive. I know that these drives have a write limit so I'm just wondering how often a web-browser would write to the drive since it's caching the temporary internet files on the drive itself.

Here's what I found to be a relatively easy way to sync my drive with a backup folder on my home PC.

Software you'll need:
SyncBack - I've got 3.2.1 and it's not entirely portable (profiles stored locally), but then I'm only backing up on my home PC anyway
PStart-(or launcher equivilant [if there was one;)...]
Optional

For those who don't want to take the time to write any code, here is a very simple and effective close all and auto eject.

You will need the great little app "Command line process utility" available from here (scroll to near bottom of page for .zip dl):
http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/processutil/processutil.htm

Put it in its own folder in your PortableApps folder. Now open a text editor (Notepad) and type in the processes you want to close, in the following format: [note: "-k"=kill / "-q"=close]
"E:\PortableApps\CMDLprocess_utility\Process.exe" -k winamp.exe

Yes, I know this was addressed many times, but I couldn't find an answer to my question elsewhere. I had recently looked on the Mozilla site for a manual configuration technique for Java, and found:

Workaround if Java is not detected - Advanced

On most systems, the Java plugin files will be detected via plugin scanning if the
required registry entry exists (see above) and the currently-installed versions of
the Java plugins will appear in the about:plugins listing. There may be some cases
where Java is not detected unless the Java "np.dll" plugin files are copied from

Not sure where to post this, but

Is it possible to have an RSS feed to the forums as well as the latest apps releases ?

Cheers

Paul