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Change Portable Apps Menu Position?

Submitted by apjcs on February 27, 2007 - 7:02am

Must say first; many thanks, a fantastic app - as someone said 'it just works'

I have a widescreen laptop, and have my start menu on the left hand side of the screen. I would like for the Portable Apps Menu to pop up near the tray icon which is in the bottom left hand corner of my monitor instead of the bottom righthand corner as I currently have to mouse the whole width of the screen to get to the menu.

Is ther ny chnce of a hot key to bring up the menu as well?

Thanks

PJ

New 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Disk seems slower than Old 256 MB USB 2.0 Flash Disk

Submitted by Mahesh_Bhagnari on February 26, 2007 - 2:44am

Hello,

I have an Older USB 2.0 256 MB Flash Drive that copies a collection of 200MB files within four minutes but a New 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive takes more than 17 minutes to copy the same files from the same PC connected to the same port.

It shows about 140 minutes to copy Open Office portable in the Newer one. Due to this issue I have been unable to copy all my applications and files into it as it is showing that it will take more than five hours to do so.

Why is it so and how do I resolve this?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

Regards

QEMU Manager !?

Submitted by Pheromeo on February 25, 2007 - 8:47am

I'm new here and this is my second day in your forum.

first of all thanks for your wonderful collection of portable apps and second that I can't understand is why don't you use QEMU Manager which is a portable GUI for QEMU to build your own compact virtual machine and run what ever you need on your virtual pc ????

http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm

in this way all your data is safe from infection by virus and making backup is as easy as copying your virtual hard disk file.

Very Odd shortcut behavior !!!

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Submitted by Tim Clark on February 23, 2007 - 5:06pm

I have a created a short cut on my flash drive in the root Dir:

PStart[Home]
"H:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"

realizing that this would only work on my Home machine.

I plugged the drive into my machine at work.

The drive became "K:" as was expected.

I double clicked on the shortcut, expecting an error.
It was my intent to creat a new shortcut for the work machine.

I received NO ERROR. PStart launched as normal!!!
The shortcut CHANGED TO:
"H:\Documents\NonU3Apps\PStart\PStart.exe"

I tried this on another machine.
The drive became "G:"

Locking Flash

Submitted by Patrick Patience on February 23, 2007 - 11:48am

I am aware about all of the bulletins already posted about encryption and locking for your flash drive...But, a couple days ago, I was looking through the forums and found a link that showed the PortableApps Menu with a small box attached to the top for what I believe wass password portection, I've sepent hours looking through the forums but cannot find the post anymore. If anyone knows the link for this, could you please give it to me. Thanks.

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