Music & Video Apps Support

How do I make VLC play any kind of file when the browser >folder options> filetypes change is locked due to user priviliges being restricted as they are on most business or mobile PC's. Eg click on a .wav file and windows media play tries to play it I can't change the association for the extention in folder options as it's greyed out? Thanks

The VLC portable is runnung the files with a blank screen, any help please

I saw someone posted a program to do it before, but I cant find it now. Does anyone have it?

Does VLC portable have all the visual stuff when playing music ?
I just have a blank screen ...

Whenever I start the newly released "Audacity Portable 1.2.4b" the splash screen pops up for a second and after that Audacity Portable kills itself.
I do controll the running processes and apps with Sysinternals' Process Explorer.

The same thing happens on a USB stick and on my HD as well.

Other Portable Apps as Firefox, Thunderbird, Abiword, VLC ... run all well.
So what might be wrong with Audacity?

stek

System: WinXP Pro SP2

I'm having trouble getting VST plug-ins to work. I installed them as the main Audacity instructions specify, but AudacityPortable won't display them in the Effects menu.

Steps thus far:

* Downloaded the VST handler from SourceForge and some VST plug-ins (Endorphin and Fish Fillets from the Portable Fish Phones guy) from another site
* Unzipped the files as the instructions said
* Put the handler DLL and plug-in DLLs into the AudacityPortable Plug-Ins directory (\AudacityPortable\App\Audacity\Plug-Ins)
* started AudacityPortable

When I open a sound file, highlight a section, and click on the Effects menu, I expect to see the VST effects at the bottom of it, along with all of the other effects. Instead, I just see the basic set of effects that AudacityPortable included at first execution.

Audacity portable would be a boon to anybody who does any remote podcasting, and doesn't have the same machine to rely on day in and day out. Anybody taken the portable version for a test drive yet?

I thought portable VLC would play DVDs without needing codes. Can it and if so how?
Thanks,
Donna

I'm used to using normal VLC ... but where do you put the plugins in portable VLC??

Was curious if it's possible to minimize the VLC player to the system tray. Could not turn up any definitive information while googling for this topic on the web.