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Thought I'd share a little knowledge...

Bahamut's picture
Submitted by Bahamut on November 3, 2006 - 11:29am

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: Java Native Executable / Launcher

Submitted by ekin_116 on November 3, 2006 - 3:14am

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.

PortableApps.com Search Plugin For FF2 (OpenSearch)

Ryan McCue's picture
Submitted by Ryan McCue on November 1, 2006 - 5:07am

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.
(Maskerade)

Dropping Calendar Extension for Lightning

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on October 31, 2006 - 3:08pm

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?

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