General Discussion

I know everyone here has a plethora of apps that were made portable, but there are loads of programs that weren't designed to be run off a flash drive that can and do. It'd be nice to get a list of such programs going, i know of a few, but definitly not all of them.

The one that I can't live without:
Bloodshed Dev C++ 5.0b - C++ IDE
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

........... I want to lern NSIS, how can you learn it? Along with that I need to learn BASIC and HTML coding...... But NSIS most of all.

When I'm in the forums i see lots of signatures.
How do I make one?

Is it possible to create an NSIS executable without compression? I ask because it's quite likely that UPX can make a smaller file with an uncompressed executable.

If you have a problem unmounting your device, try this:

Get Process Explorer from sysinternals.com
Run it.
On the main menu, Find -> Find Handle or DLL

If you have an external HD, search for \Device\KsecDD\
For a thumbdrive, \Device\

For ExHDs, \Device\KsecDD\ should give you every process that is using it. Note that not every process needs to be killed (and DO NOT kill rundll32), especially if you are using a school/work computer (certain programs acknowledge the device, but aren't using it). Common processes that lock your device (both thumbdrives and ExHDs) include explorer.exe (restart it), jusched.exe, and ctfmon.exe.

Janel is a Java native executable and launcher for Windows. Launch your Java application just like other Windows executables. Choose console or non-console application, the location of the JVM, and other properties. The process name is same as .exe name.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/janel/

Maybe we can let java applications running on Portable devices without JRE installed on the host PC.

Remember Ashes' search plugin for PortableApps.com?
Well, here's my OpenSearch version for Firefox 2 and as far as I know, it should work in IE7 too. I'll check later.
http://portable.cubegames.net/portableapps_search.xml
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were
the kind of people who didn't need people.
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I'm planning on dropping support for the calendar extension within both Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable in the next release. This is due to the fact that the calendar component is now a part of the new Lightning extension, which is portable out of the box and the calendar extension is being dropped. (This won't affect Sunbird, of course, since it's a separate product.)

Before I did, I thought I'd see if anyone had any reason why I shouldn't dropped it. Anybody?

After researching for a little while I finally settled on the Patriot Extreme Performance Flash Drive: Xporter 2GB (item # PEF2G200USB).

Apologies if this has already been covered as I can't seem to find anything appropriate that answers my query.

Basically, I'd like to know how to get ASuite to autorun from my USB key.

This is the first time I'm using such a key. It appears to have two partitions (currently showing up as E & F drive) and I'd like to get ASuite to launch just as soon as I plug in my key. Suffice to say it would be great if this could work without any drive mapping as I would like to be able to run the key from various PCs.

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance.