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Command Prompt (Revized) Try This Yall

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Submitted by Skitter302 on February 21, 2010 - 11:57pm

CMD blocked by admin no more!!!!

More info + Download= Command Prompt (Revized)

I think I got all the bugs out, So let me now of any.

But I had the problem of getting a CMD block at school because of admin. Now with the new revised version the admin can't block your portable version of CMD and it's still truly portable.

[Topic clarified by Mod Tim]

NSIS problem with variables

Submitted by Benedikt93 on February 20, 2010 - 1:14pm

I'm doing a piece of NSIS at the moment to backup registry keys or values found by a search in the registry.
As it's almost finished, I wanted to do a quick test, but the NSIS compiler always gives me these warnings

12 warnings:
  unknown variable/constant "{_SearchFor}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:54)
  unknown variable/constant "{_SearchFor}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:56)
  unknown variable/constant "{_Type}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:59)

App compactor suggestion (optipng to crush PNG filesizes)

Submitted by mortgat on February 19, 2010 - 3:48am

Hello,

I ran into appcompactor and found it easy to use upx gui.

I am wondering whether it would be suitable or not to include optipng inside it; that software is designed to minimize the size of portable network graphics without any loss of detail.

under windows in a batch file I can do
for /r . %%G in (*.png) do optipng -o7 %%G

under linux, find . -iname "*.png" -exec optipng -o7 {} \;

It works pretty well and can be useful to reduce even more the size of some portable apps.

Have a nice day and thanks for offering that application,

Need a springboard icon

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Submitted by computerfreaker on February 17, 2010 - 4:03pm

Sorry if this seems short, I'm on the run atm.

Could somebody please get me a springboard icon? The default launcher icon in Ubuntu would be great, if somebody could get it. If not, don't worry about it; I'll try to get it later today.

I've got a new app ready to go except for the icon, and a springboard is just what I need.

Thanks!

Help needed with Delphi source

Submitted by Mark Sikkema on February 12, 2010 - 5:11pm

One of the last plug-in needed for Unicode NSIS, is MoreInfo !

I've tried to contact the developer, but he doesn't seem to be actively developing this plug-in any more since 2006.

As it is developed with Borland Delphi v7.1.1, I'm not able to do anything with this.

Can anybody help to modify this plug-in to be used with Unicode NSIS ???

MoreInfo forum tread
MoreInfo plug-in on nsis.sourceforge.net

Locked DLL

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Submitted by computerfreaker on February 11, 2010 - 12:14pm

I'm working on NVDA right now; it's pretty simple settings-wise (everything is self-contained), but it has a DLL's (IAccessible2Proxy.dll) that invariably gets locked by Explorer. Any ideas on breaking the lock?
I thought of doing a regsvr32 /u call, but I'm using PAL, which doesn't seem to support that kind of thing yet.

Can P.Apps handle %APPDATA on another volume?

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on February 8, 2010 - 7:29am

Several months ago I posted about VLC Portable leaving stuff in &APPDATA and IIRC the post was ignored, which I took to mean "we can't reproduce it" or "we don't know what to do about it". (Silence is possibly the mother of assumption.)

I have an idea that might lead to a solution or at least an explanation.

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