General Discussion

Hi everyone. I have been lurking here for a while and would like to see if it's possible to get a flash drive partitioned for use in this method. I have two unattended install images of Win2k and WinXP and would like to take a 2gb drive, partition it up, and get three bootable partitions, one for each install image and one for a bartPE boot for utilities and additional software.

I am interested in doing this because it has become common enough for a re-installation of the OS to a user's pc. Ideally, the install image would be updateable as service packs and hotfixes are released, which is part of why flash media is ideal. The other reason being small size vs CD's.

I recently bought a Vonage V-phone which is just a usb key. What is interesting is that Windows detects it as a CD-Drive which allows you to pull out the usb key without safely removing it. The software just closes itself after the usb has been pulled out. Does anyone know if or how to accomplish this with another usb key?

I found a portable search engine - Gaviri PocketSearch.
It is not free, but does have a good free trial.
The limitation is 2000 documents, but I don't think most people will have that many documents on their drive.
The site does not mention any time limits.
It is also avalible as U3.

Site: http://www.gaviri.com/site/index.jsp
Download (Windows) (old version, see note below): http://www.gaviri.com/site/downloads/PocketSearch-1.1.1.exe
Download (U3) (old version, see note below): http://www.gaviri.com/site/downloads/PocketSearch-1.1.1.u3p

EDIT: They changed their site, new link. Also they released a new version, but the new limit is 30 days, and the old limit is forever and 2000 documents.

Hi. I was wondering if anybody knows how to stop Win2000 from checking file system on my Flash Voyager 2gb. It does this during reboot if I fail to remove the drive prior to rebooting. Obviously the answer is to remove it first, but I can't understand why it does it in the first place. Is it because it is formated in FAT?

I've read allegations that torpark phones home here: http://www.torrify.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=311
Untill this question is resolved ill have to refrain from using torpark and switch to the official firefox/firefox portable and tor releases. I know that torpark is someone elses project, but since firefox portable is used in torpark, could mr Haller investigate and comment? Please note that i maintain full confidence in the use of firefox portable and tor. I an no programmer so even if the torpark is open source i have no idea how to verify it. I hope someone more knowlegeable can check it

Hi
I used opera since a long time and i want to have it on my usb flash drive
I have found 2 different portable opera
1) http://www.kejut.com/operaportable
2) http://www.opera-usb.com/index.htm

I am not very good in portable appz so i need your help to choose between the two

thanks a lot

Hi, I heard about a limitation factor (cycle of read and write) on usb flash drives. Is an application like Firefox portable, ran for 4hours/day, can quickly damage these kind of drives?

I'm new here... I've tried several times to download your portableapps but without sucess... what's up? why only one server to download?

I saw about your site a couple of days ago, and I'd like to try these apps out. But I've been unable to download *anything* from the sourceforge repository "kent.dl.sourceforge.net" for almost 48 hours. What's up?

1) Are extended outages like this normal? When can I download these apps?
2) Why are you using only one sourceforge repository? Why not use several? Redundancy will help you avoid things like this in the future.

-- Derek

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache

Does anyone know what exactly this key does? It seems to track every executable run recently. I know there are other keys that hinder true portability, but I was wondering if anyone knew about this one in particular.