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How about some portable Bible software?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 28, 2006 - 11:07pm

There is a FREE and excellent Bible software package called e-Sword (www.e-sword.net) that has a big bunch of add-ons available for it. It would really be great to have this on my USB memory stick for studying during lunchtime at work.

I know requesting Bible software for portable app status may sound a little unusual, but some of us do think about (and use) programs like that. (GRIN)

By the way, hats off to John for an incredible job on the portable app conversions.

Great work!

Portable ClamWin / WinPooch combo

Submitted by Thox on February 28, 2006 - 6:05am

WinPooch can integrate with ClamWin by looking for it in the registry and loading up ClamWin.conf. If I hard code some absolute paths in the registry and my own ClamWin.conf file then I can force WinPooch to scan all files with my portable ClamWin (actually I'm just using plain old ClamAV with a GUI nearby).

It's not quite right though - WinPooch always comes up with an "all clear" report asking if I'm sure I want to continue - even though the report says everything is fine.

I've tried making WinPooch call clamwin.exe with the --no-summary and -i (infected only) switches, but they don't stop the popup from WinPooch - they just make the popup show an empty box and still asking if I want to open it.

NX Client

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 27, 2006 - 7:18pm

I'm not too sure it can be done, as I toyed with it for a good bit of time.

If anyone has any pointers I'm open to suggestions.

scroll bar width

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 27, 2006 - 5:48pm

I'm very impressed with portable apps, as user.
I wish I could share these softwares with a good friend of mine.
Infortunately, bieng disabled, he cannot use the scroll bars because they are too narrow (He emulates a mouse cursor with his eye sight).
Would it be possible to find a way to widden scroll bars (15 mm) ?
I also notice that sometimes the "fixed size" windows don't show all their content (buttons, label... like smartision Screencopy in "mode avancé").
In other word, is it possible to custumize window frames(setup file ?)

Belarc Advisor?

Submitted by Buckbeak on February 24, 2006 - 8:36am

Has anyone gotten Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html to work from a USB drive?

Some work has been done to get it to work from a bootable CD but has thus far been unsuccessful.
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=6645&hl=belarc

It's a little bit strange in that you don't run an executable, you actually run a DLL with the following command:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Belarc\Advisor\System\NPBelv32.dll,RunDll32_ShowLocalPage -p60 -bAdvisor.bcx

When I run it from the USB drive I get a message like this:
Belarc Advisor: Template file problem: \System\siteDefaultSummary.html contains an invalid path

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