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PTB slow in Kingston drive

Submitted by sergiom99 on July 24, 2006 - 7:27pm

Hi Guys,
i am setting up portable Thunderbird in my Kingston Datatraveler 128Mb, but it's quite slow.
I want to make sure my USB ports are 2.0

I am running WIN XP PRO SP2, all updated drivers. My motherboard is a Soyo 7VCA2. desktop PIII 1ghz.
At device manager i see the following under USB:
--sorry my OS is in spanish!--
http://img130.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=67180_device_man_531lo.jpg

I see no "enhanced USB" anywhere!

PTB leaves a stub behind on host PC?

Submitted by peanut butter on July 23, 2006 - 2:28pm

I was cleaning out the registry on one of my computers, and noticed to my surprise that PTB showed up in it. It's under the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\userid@isp.com
(the email address above isn't real, of course)

Where the string named Application has the value:
"G:\Apps\PortableThunderbird\App\thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -profile "G:\Apps\PortableThunderbird\Data\profile" -mail

Luckily I haven't used PTB on any public computers yet, but the fact that my email address is left behind on a host PC worries me. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Opening links in Portable Firefox

Submitted by colmed01 on July 11, 2006 - 4:49am

Is there a method of forcing Portable Thunderbird to open HTML links in Portable Firefox instead of the default Windows browser.

I'm running both Thunderbird & Firefox on a USB drive, on a PC at work, and don't want to use the installed IE as my browser. DUe to user restrictions I can't (and don't want to) chanmge the default browser.

Syncronisation Thunderbird (portable) PDA (Windows Mobile)

Submitted by Gerd on July 6, 2006 - 11:43am

First I want to describe my circumstances. I use portable Thunderbird on some Windows Computers and even at home on my Ubuntu Linux mashine (using only the profils, works fine).
Everything workes perfect (means: thanks for all that nice portable programs!).
Now I have a T-Mobile MDA (PDA with Windows Mobile). I want to synchronise it with the data in my portable thunderbird profile.
I have tried using activesync with birdiesync. The problem is, that you cant define the right paths for the syncronisation with the portable app.
Maybe someone knows a different way to syncronise a PDA with portable thunderbird, or had success on trying to pair the devices with birdiesync. (with the normal Thunderbird everthing works fine!)

Thunderbird hangs

Submitted by ods on July 3, 2006 - 3:10am

I run portable Thunderbird from an iPodShuffle on OSX. The application hangs everytime the computer wakes up from sleep, regardless on which Mac I try it on. Is there a way around this?

thanks in advance

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