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Portable Wallpaper Changer

Submitted by Isaac Waller on July 4, 2008 - 1:09am

This program changes your wallpaper to a bitmap. It is useful if you have it start up every time you plugin your flash drive.

Command line:
Change.exe (filename) OR /back
(filename) = A filename of a file to set your background to.
/back = Sets the background to what it was before you changed it last.

To have it start up every time you plugin your flash drive, you can use my other program USBStart (https://portableapps.com/node/14315).
1. Download "Change.exe" and place it in PortableApps\WallpaperChanger\App.
2. Add this to before #EJECT in your Autostart.ini file:

Removing Source folders

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Submitted by th3wildwolf on June 29, 2008 - 1:20pm

Is it safe to remove the source folders to save space?
What other things can be removed safely?

PS: If it is safe to remove, you should make the installer let the user choose if he wants it to be installed or not in order to save space on small drives because the majority of the users won't need to recompile the software.

Delphi advice from PAM Devs

Submitted by wraithdu on June 26, 2008 - 11:07am

So I think I want to start learning Delphi. This would be my first real programming language, though I'd say I'm moderately proficient in BATCH, NSIS, and AutoIt3. So I've got a few questions.

First, what flavor and version of Delphi do you use to build the PAM platform? Can you do all that in Turbo, or do you need the Pro version?

Save the settings in pendrive?

Submitted by lorfirewall on June 25, 2008 - 6:55pm

Hello, I'm new here. Use PortableApp very often and is a program of the best to handle a pendrive.

Let me make you a question.
There are programs that use some configurations that are stored in "," on my PC, but to take the pendrive to another PC, I do not have that configuration, would have to copy all configurations of all programs to put them on your PC to use that vaig The pendrive, but many are.
There is some possibility that the settings are kept in a folder of simulating pendrive ke is the PC?
For example:

TrollTech Registry Entry Help ( Need Some Info )

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Submitted by David Dixon II on June 24, 2008 - 10:41pm

Ok When lightscreen runs, it makes a entry in the registry called TrollTech, to find where the .dll picture file is. This is suppose to be deleted after lightscreen is finished.

But i need to know, there is another app that uses that trolltech entry but i forgot its name (its an app that shows a pictures info & its in beta testing right now) whats that apps name and what are the other apps names that you can list that use this registry entry? thanks for the help all Biggrin

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