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Can't log into Pidgin

Submitted by AnneKalo on January 5, 2010 - 8:47pm

Hi - I can't seem to log into pidgin portable. My understanding was that the USB version would work regardless if the company has it blocked or not since it is not installed onto the computer.

Do I have to change anything to make it work if the company has messaging blocked? I am not trying to slack or not work - I put in many hours at work and would like to have access to chat with my kids when necessary but unfortunately the company doesn't allow any time of messaging.

Please advise. Thanks.

Two BUGs in Pidgin Portable

Submitted by runapp on January 2, 2010 - 8:56am

 There is a bug on the setting file.
 I wanted to disable the splash screen, but when I added "DiDisableSplashScreen=true" to "Data\settings\PidginPortableSetting.ini" it doesn't work.
 Then I fount that the ini in "Source" is named "PidginPortable.ini"!
 Another bug is "PidginPortable.ini" must be put in "PidginPortable\" but "PidginPortable\Data\settings", where it was Automatically put in the latter directory.
 The two bugs took me 10 minutes, so I won't anyone else to spend time on it.
 Hope to fix soon.

PuTTY Tray and portaPuTTY

Submitted by lwc on December 16, 2009 - 6:15am
  1. The link you give for the former is outdated.
  2. The former optionally doesn't write to the registry, so you can use that (if you can detect it).
  3. Why don't you suggest to also drag and drop the latter (which not optionally doesn't write to the registry) into Putty Portable?

Thanks!

putty.exe detected as trojan

Submitted by kjb on December 15, 2009 - 12:49pm

via macafee virus scan enterprise

PuTTYPortable.e D:\portProg\PuTTYPortable\App\putty\PUTTY.EXE generic!bg.gru (Trojan)

tried to download the newest version today and got this:

\Downloads\PuTTY_Portable_0.60_Rev_3.paf.exe.part\PUTTY_PORTABLE_0.60_REV_3.PAF.EXE.PART generic!bg.gru (Trojan)

went to generic putty and no probs there. notice AVG does not detect this as a threat, have not tested other AVs

kjb

Pidgin Portable launches IE instead of system's default

Submitted by hypest on November 18, 2009 - 4:14am

I know there was a last-year thread about this, but I can't get around it:

I have set my XP default browser to Firefox portable using the DefaultBrowser utility. For example, at the Windows Run dialog, entering "http://www.google.com" opens a new tab in FF Portable. FF Portable is running (and registered through DefaultBrowser) from a local drive (not usb thumb etc...).

Still, clicking on links in Pidgin Portable's chat windows, IE opens up....

How can I force Pidgin Portable to run system's default browser, or at least set it to run a specific one?

Any help appreciated Smile

FileZilla: Removing old version from Portable Apps Menu

Submitted by AvatharV on November 14, 2009 - 7:41pm

I had an old version of Filezilla 3.0.11.1 installed on my thumb drive and when I installed version 3.2.6.1, it made a separate entry. Every other program just updated the existing install, but this upgrade left me with 2 Filezilla menu entry. The old may not even be installed anymore, but how do I remove the duplicate entry.

I don't want to muck around where I don't know what I am doing, so I look to the experts.

Thanks.

PuTTY: Avoiding the registry alltogether

Submitted by crux on November 14, 2009 - 6:38am

This forum has quite a few Windows registry issues. It may be possible to avoid storing settings in the registry (thus eliminating the need for the .reg file workaround) without modifying the PuTTY source code. The trick is to donate the modified source code to the developers of PuTTY and have them make it a part of their next release.

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