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issues concerning U3

Submitted by chu-kwan on September 27, 2006 - 3:16am

I'm currently using sandisk titanium 1G

1. There is a LaunchU3.exe file in the root directory of the drive. Is it an important file and does it matter if this file is deleted ?

2. If I format the disk (LaunchU3.exe deleted), can the U3 system still be used?

3. Can the disk with U3 system co-exist with portable linux?(reference: www.pendrivelinux.com). Will the U3 system be altered if the disk becomes bootable ?

I appreciate you effort of giving advices on these issues, thank you.

Smallftpd - a ftp server

Submitted by gwsux on September 25, 2006 - 5:38pm

I found this neat ftp server, smallftpd http://smallftpd.sourceforge.net/
and it works pretty well. It doesn't require installation, only ftpd.ini which makes it very portable. It is only 185kb in size. I think it's worth checking out, it could easily run from a portable device. It runs extremly fast and has support for virtual directories. (I was able to show my c and d drives as folders within the root folder)

Password Protected drive

Submitted by Serenity1981 on September 25, 2006 - 4:45pm

I am about to go out and get a 4 to 6 gig usb pocket HD. I have a usb drive with U3 and am looking for something that can password protect the drive so you cannot even access it like the U3 app. is there anything out there that will do that?

Also which is better a portable pocket hd or another usb drive? im looking for the best performance since i run a lot of apps from it.

Mojopac

Submitted by tracon on September 25, 2006 - 1:24pm

Ok...I am not trying to sell anythig here...but I thought you guys might like to check out this MojoPac

I have been testing it in beta and it works pretty well. You can install most of your programs and it is not terribly slow. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows XP machines right now.

It is along the lines of indi but is here now...

btw, John yeah it's me the same tracon...love what you've done with the place

Updating portable apps

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Submitted by stone1343 on September 25, 2006 - 12:56pm

Let's say I'm running Firefox Portable (I am) and it notifies me there's an update (it did). What should I do:
1 - Go ahead and do the update - will it update properly and still be portable?
2 - Wait for the new release from portableapps.com

The question doesn't apply just to Firefox, but any app (Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, 7-Zip, Audacity, etc)

Sorry if this question has been addressed somewhere else or if this is the wrong way to ask, newbie

So I think I messed up my computer.

Submitted by CollegeDJ on September 25, 2006 - 1:25am

Hello, well you all seem like very tech and Pc savy folk. You see I was having trouble with a portable app and accessing the "Applications Data" Folder in my computer, (I'm obviously not as tech savy, who knew all i needed to do was click "Show hidden folders"

Anyway, what happend was that I was trying to get the folder to show up so on

C:Docs and settings/~

The ~ symbol being my account name, i right click and fiddled with read only, hidden etc, AND then i "accidently" click on the sharing tab and then on "Make this folder private" so this box comes up saying its doing something to permissions and I accidently clicked cancelled, so I checked and unchecked it, trying to get it back to normal.

dev c++

Submitted by raym on September 23, 2006 - 12:46am

i have just started a course on programming and am looking for an app like
dev c++ that is portable

thanks in advance
raym

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