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ASpack

Submitted by jrwr on June 26, 2006 - 6:47am

A friend of mine has bougth ASPack and is allowing me to use it for my Programs and such. anyway, it can compress the Firefox Bins 50-60% more! i am thinking about releasing them, is this fine with your guys

My Portable OpenVPN 2.1.x

Submitted by MrChris on June 25, 2006 - 5:35pm

Since OpenVPN and OpenVPN GUI both require Registry settings I have made my own custom OpenVPN 2.1.x using AutoIT Script 3.0 (latest Beta)

Pretty much what it does is Copies the OpenVPN directory to C:\Program Files\OpenVPN and then imports the Registry settings into the registry then Installs the OpenVPN TAP Adapter then opens OpenVPN GUI 1.04 (from www.openvpn.se) and auto starts a Server connection (waiting for connections on tcp 6789). When the GUI is closed then C:\Program Files\OpenVPN is deleted and the TAP adapter is removed then the reg settings that where imported are deleted and everything is back to normal.

Help with Quick port template and RegRapper...

Submitted by nycjv321 on June 25, 2006 - 3:15pm

I've been testing with the QuickPortTemplate_v1.1 code but i always get an error with the Messagebox::show command here
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Section "Main"

;Check machine for local install and if found show a message box to choose what settings to use.
${registry::KeyExists} "${REGKEY}" $R0
StrCmp $R0 "0" 0 RunPortable
Messagebox::show "" "Local ${APPNAME} Installation Found..." "" " ${APPNAME} is currently Installed to the local machine.$\n Do you want to use your Portable Settings or the Local Settings?" "Portable Settings" "Local Settings" IDCANCEL

Liberta, Other Apps on Vista

Submitted by Jacoby on June 21, 2006 - 2:57am

Well, I'm on for Windows Vista Beta 2, and have spent a couple hours testing apps.

Progress:

-Liberta

-Autorun.INF, Backup, Sync, and Log were tested.

-All ran without a hitch.
-Backup works with both zip and 7z formats.
-Sync was tested with two new test catagories, and worked great.
(NOTE: Steve, maybe a refresh button for the categories after changing them, as it requires a restart to see changes/additions.)

-John T. Haller's Portable Appy Goodness Wink

-Portables: Abiword, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, Miranda, FileZilla, OO.o excluding base (not tested), VLC, SciTE, ClamWin, GIMP.

"Standalone"

Submitted by Monsieur T on June 19, 2006 - 7:25pm

To me, standalone has always meant a single executable file, without being dependant on DLL's. Is there a way of integrating such files like DLL's into the executable? I think this would solve many of the problems on library and school computers that so far are unable to block standalone .exe's from running inside .zip files. If further development is made on standalone apps, it would be helpful if the type of app is labelled on the site, i.e. "Standalone single executable", or otherwise.

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