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cannot use portableapps at work

Submitted by kujoe on October 12, 2006 - 9:37am

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me. I've installed portable thunderbird on my usb keychain drive and can run it with no problems at home on all computers, even with limited accounts.

However once I take it to work, it spits a few errors at me, then stops reading the drive and thunderbird never starts. I've even put portable Trillian from Trilliananywhere.com on it and a couple of other portable apps from around the web and it's not just thunderbird that's failing.

I suspect it's some sort of security issue with my IT folks at work. What makes me suspect this more is that if I actually copy the folders to my local machine, they run...

MAX Drive ps2

Submitted by Rex McCarty on October 10, 2006 - 10:03pm

While Discovering Portable APPs {which I Love) I started with NEDWOLFS site and began reading about Portable Apps, somewherer along the line I came across 8gb. Drives from thecomputerwarehouse and I believe thats net not com. I ordered 2 Max drives USB which claims to work as any pen drive. They didn't work at all and the site wants a cod Cashiers Check. It's a one way trip, you own the bad drives 111.00 US gone so if anyone knows where that link was at Beware and better remove it. By the way I have never had a Lexar Drive to give me a drop of trouble in two years.

Portable app on an MTP player?

Submitted by amdathlon65 on October 9, 2006 - 2:34am

Hi,
Recently, I decided to try out Portable Firefox. The only portable flash drive that I have is my MP3 player which uses Microsoft's MTP standard. When I try running Firefox directly from my player, all I get is the properties window, and a notice saying "this file cannot be opened directly from this device. You must copy the file to your local hard drive". This occurs even if I have admin right on the machine. I'm using Windows XP. Any thoughts? Thanks.

return email?

Submitted by Miles on October 9, 2006 - 12:03am

Just joined these forums and do not see a method to set for receipt of an email when a topic I submited has a reply. Is this automatic, or is it non-existant?
Miles

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