General Discussion

I am not as technically adept as most of the people posting here. The last time I actually programmed anything was when Z-80s and 6502s were considered state of the art. So, be patient with my questions. When I stick a U3 USB drive into a computer, the U3 Menu automatically loads and is in the bar at the bottom of my screen. When I stick in my USB with PortableApps in my computer, the icon for USB changes, but the menu does not automatically load. Is this due to some setting on my computer for how it processes the autorun.inf file? I thought that the autorun.inf file that is in the PortableApps installation would automatically start the menu.

I don't suppose since we are getting hosted Developer pages, we might get some moderators on the forums *hint hint*
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Will firefox portable decrease the life of your usb stick? Since web browsers freq write to the disk to store temporary web files and USB sticks have a limited times it can be written to.

I'm looking for a simple way of synchronizing bookmarks from Firefox installed on PC and from portable one. I googled it and all these fancy programs came up where you can make bookmarks accessible via FTP etc. All I want is just with one click make the bookmarks on portable and normal Firefox be the same.

Don't you think, that the server2go should be listed on this page, do you?

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Do u think is possible to do the same with the latest 7.x version ?

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I've heard before that running apps from flash memory can provide serious wear and tear on the memory. Since flash degrades after a certain number of writes/erasures, and since programs generally right to disk rather frequently (e.g., save settings), running the apps will utilimately lead to an accelerated death. Are the portable versions specifically designed not to do this? Are there any other issues like this I should be aware of?

Much obliged.
-Brian

Hi, I have 4 usb drives,
one of the original powervaults 64mb
a cheapo lexar jumpdrive 128mb given by a school
a sony USM512E from work
a sony USM1GJ just bought.

I ran portable apps firefox, gaim and filezilla (portaputty as well) from the 64/128/512.

Then all went to junk on both the 512 and the new 1gb. Both from sony maybe thats the bad part, but I sent the 1gb back and they shipped a new one, I swore the thing was slow as heck but its on both drives im seeing this, where before it wasn't.

When opening an application, the app takes 3x as long to load, talking 20+ seconds here. Then while open, say firefox, will freeze when scrolling for about 3 seconds then move again. Happens when typing, or anything, same with filezilla, it will start going then pause again.

just a simple question from my inquiring mind...
(maybe posted before, sorry if repeated)

Can the AutoRun of PortableApps, when the flash disk is plugged in, be disabled?

Hello all,

Is possible I have in my usb driver (Sandisk micro 4GB) the PortableApp instaled, more a bootable linux and a partition truecrypt ?!

Thank's to help...