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7-Zip SFX Archive Icons

Submitted by otbsupport on September 16, 2006 - 9:21am

Ok... so I have a new package put together, but the standard 7-Zip icon is really annoying... Anyone know how to change the archive icon? If you do it with a resource explorer/editor it comes back with an error upon execution.

Idea!....Still Running

Submitted by twnty3svn on September 15, 2006 - 10:09am

I just had an idea, but not sure if it is possible, or whether it is already done. The problem i have is I keep forgetting i have programs running on my USB before i exit, as i'm sure most of you do. I know there has been a earlier post regarding an automated .bat file to kill the running processes, however i thought this maybe an alternative.

The program is run on startup (code name "Still Running" Blum ), from a launcher, maybe on PStart, then any apps which are run from the USB drive (or run from PStart) is added to a text file or alike list. If a app is closed then it is removed from the list. Then on exit of the launcher, a list comes up with a window stating any apps that are still running. Esspecially useful for apps in the system tray, or on desktop, such as Rainlender.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Portable App (the name of the app has nothing to do with Adobe® Photoshop® CS2)

Submitted by rocketry91 on September 13, 2006 - 12:11am

I have been working on scripts to automate the creation and set up of a Adobe® Photoshop® CS2

The Name Of the app is "Make_Portable" and its not really an app its a bunch of cmd files.
I have made what many people want (a portable Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 make and launcher)if you want to download it I have the link here but You still need either the Administrator password or you need to be an admin to run it. This I will fix as soon as we develop a working virtual registry and call re-director.

Download: It dosent work Im fixing it
MD5: 82E58FEABFCCB7D0A2DB286D0550605E

Have a lot

Registry problems...

Submitted by otbsupport on September 12, 2006 - 9:36pm

Greetings all... I'm working on building a portable app launcher for the shareware version of WinImage just as a practice app to help me learn a bit... It works fine, but when I put my registration information in, it looses it when the app shuts down. Seems like it's not properly backing up the registry although the code looks fine to me...

Registry::_RestoreKey "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\settings.reg" .R0
ExecWait $EXECSTRING
Registry::_SaveKey "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinImage"
"$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\settings.reg" "/G=1 /D=0 /B=0" .R0
Registry::_DeleteKey "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinImage" .R0

Blender Portable 2.44

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Submitted by tanisthalon on September 12, 2006 - 5:53pm

I have created a new portable version of Blender, an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

Features:

  • Directory structure is compatible to portableapps.com
  • uses installed settings
  • fancy splash-screen

The selfextracting archive can be downloaded from its current location.

Visit official page

Please note link has been updated as of 1/11/06!

rhino

Submitted by keleus on September 12, 2006 - 4:42pm

I have a copy of Rhino and Flamingo, and I am working out how to turn it into a portable app for myself (and myself only! get yer own licence :p)

Trouble is that the program uses multiple file trees and multiple registry branches. Namely because the thing has a licence manager. It also, in addition to having multiple branches in the SOFTWARE section of the registry, it uses HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE indepenantly...

I don't know (anything) about making a portable app... how would I do this?

creating instant frozen bubble need help...

Submitted by nycjv321 on September 12, 2006 - 1:42pm

ive taken instant filezilla's code from portaSoft and modified it to add the ability of running of a cd and it works with 7-zip. and i use frozen bubble (ive been messing with slax Smile ) alot so i wanted to make a single exe version of it but everytime i compile and run it it says "sdl.dll not found maybe installing might fix this problem," so then i take silent install off to see a gui of the install it copies the files and then runs so i try runnning again it says the samething so then i go to the install dir which is %temp%\IFB then i see that the sdl.dll and all the other files have copied and then yet agian the windows saying the problem with the dll is still there so then i click on frozen-bubble.exe in the temp folder and then it runs (with the other frozen-bubble process running complaining about sdl) and then i close both and the nsis script finishes but and deletes the tmp dir but doesnt delete writetest.tmp (it installes itself to the $EXEDIR to check read only media) and so what im a doin wrong

Libertà Release: PUSS 1.0 RC2

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on September 9, 2006 - 10:30am

Well here it is , RC2. This version has a completely revamped interface, as well as a completely new encryption system (initially for Secure) and a VAST clean up of the code.

You can get it here:

www.sourceforge.net/projects/liberta

Please post any comments below, as well as bugs and feature requests.

Steve

P.S. Could someone do a comparison of the speed of the secure bit and any thing else that you might be using, thanks.

Libertà Release : PUSS 1.0 RC1

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on September 1, 2006 - 12:18pm

Surprise!!!

This is the first release of the new Libertà app, Portable Utility and Security Suite (PUSS for short). It contains all of the functionality of Sync and Backup as well as the never released Secure module. I haven't written the documentation yet but it should be coming early next week. Hopefully once it is mature I'll halt the individual bits, after one code base is easier than three.

Enjoy and please post any bugs below. You can get it from

www.sourceforge.net/projects/liberta

There are quite a few new feature such as a real sync mode that compares files modification times, a much speeded up backup part and a encryptor. Note at the moment the encryptor just copies the files to an encrypted archive but I'm looking to change that in the future.

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