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General discussions of portable apps and news.

What *exactly* is left behind as a trace on the host PC?

Submitted by TDD on December 18, 2006 - 6:42pm

I am up against a pretty restrictive and eager-to-make-a-point-of IT department who sees everything as black and white only. I believe the solutions here are superb and am pretty excited to have a bit of freedom again, but...

What is left behind as any kind of trace? I realize the MTU and Prefetch areas are populated on the PC...fine...I can delete those off. Anything else that I should be aware of? Even the slightest thing can make a difference...!

TDD.

Uninstall Portable Apps

Submitted by davidmarek on December 18, 2006 - 3:16pm

Can you tell me how to uninstall the Portable Apps icon / name menu on my flash drive? I know I can remove the folders, but the name of the flash drive cannot be changed, and I cannot remove the 'icon' that has been assigned to it.

Thanks.

IT Question

Submitted by Domenic00 on December 17, 2006 - 9:36pm

Hi Everybody, I work in IT support and come across alot of PC's with virus/spyware problems and this would seem to help. My question is if you run portable spyware/virus spps on your usb drive will you be able to mount the clients drive and run scans from your usb drive?? Thanks in advance, Domenic

Making an application portable

Submitted by jessejazza on December 17, 2006 - 3:52am

Dear members

I have read with interest how some have turned Skype and other applications portable. I'd be grateful if someone could explain why applications were written so that they impacted the registry when as we see with Portable Apps they could have written settings to the directory. It does seem to me that a lot of applications don't need to impact the registry so why were they written like this in the first place.

So what does one need to do to make an application portable or isn't it that easy. I have a copy of eMindMaps which i'd like to make portable. Later programs like Freemind, ThinkGraph are not as good, and the later MindManager far too complicated and less intuitive than eMindMaps.

Password protecting USB drive?

Submitted by Day on December 15, 2006 - 5:15pm

I have a USB drive with U3 on it and the U3 software has a function to protect the drive with a password however on some computers (running WinXP or Win2000)usually the ones connected to a network the drive does not work as the window asking for the password does not show up. Is there a different program that can be used to protect the whole USB drive and works without a hitch?

Best Portable Software for Library Usage?

Submitted by tmbstone on December 15, 2006 - 3:32am

I currently visit my local library on a fairly regular basis and was curious what software you would recommend? Im going to use Portable Firefox, but thats about the extent of my knowledge. Im thinking I might need a proxy as fantasy sports sites seemed to be blocked. Do I need some sort of spyware/antivirus? Any software that may remove any cookies/temp files? All help is greatly appreciated.

FF Extension

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on December 14, 2006 - 8:41pm

Here's my idea:
I'm going to try and create an extension that will try and find the following:
<a href="...#new">x new</a>
And then create a nsIAlert saying if a post was found.
Anyone want to help me since I know almost nil about extension developing?
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Ryan McCue
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
(Tom Lehrer)

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