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How to set up and use PortableApps on your USB thumb drive

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2008-05-06 12:15:50 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...thumb drive. You dont have to delete everything on it, but it might be a good idea to copy the contents over to your hard drive just in case something goes wrong and your data gets erased during the PortableApps installation. Visit PortableApps.com and decide which package is right for you. I went with the Standard Edition, so thats what...
 
Tags: drive, usb thumb drive, thumb drive, portableapps, installation location, correct installation location, hard drive, select start portableapps, select
 
 
 
 
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How to format a USB thumb drive in Windows

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2008-07-28 07:20:23 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...thumb drive (also called USB flash drives). The exact same steps apply for formatting any removable drives/memory cards/non-primary hard drive partitions Formatting a drive, of any kind, will wipe out all of the data on that drive. Make sure youve copied any files from your USB thumb drive to a different location before formatting Plug in the...
 
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Speeding Up Vista with a Thumb Drive

2008-04-26 20:05:34 by Milo in Windows Vista Weblog
 
...thumb drive. The steps are as follows 1. Start by plugging in the USB thumb drive. Windows AutoPlay will prompt you to either open the folder to view the files on your thumb drive or to Speed up my system. Select the latter 2. Vista will run a quick check to make sure the USB drive youre using meets the performance criteria for ReadyBoost. If...
 
Tags: thumb drive, vista, usb thumb drive, readyboost, usb, notice vista performs, readyboost tab, usb drive, file named readyboost
 
 
 
 
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Portable Chrome Puts Chrome on Your Thumb Drive

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2008-09-04 11:00:00 by Adam Pash in Lifehacker: Windows
...thumb drive and take it with you wherever you go? It's far from official, but German blogger Caschy has put together a portable version of Google Chrome you can run off your thumb drive. Just unzip the download to your thumb drive and run ChromeLoader.exe. All your Chrome settings and profile information now saves to your thumb drive. This is...
 
Tags: chrome, portable chrome, thumb drive, google chrome, portable version, german blogger caschy, version, chrome settings, profile information
 
 
 
 
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RulesOfThumb.org - Every Rule of Thumb on Earth

2008-01-23 12:50:00 by tomparker in KillerStartups.com - all
 
...thumb on earth at one handy web address. The site is fully searchable with the backend machinery to let users rate new contributions in or out of the main db providing a Darwinian weeding mechanism which will let the content improve in value over time. The site tracks your success as a rater andor contributor and has the basic tagging...
 
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How to speed up Vista using a spare USB thumb drive

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2008-04-27 03:03:18 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...thumb drive. Windows AutoPlay will prompt you to either open the folder to view the files on your thumb drive or to Speed up my system . Select the latter Vista will run a quick check to make sure the USB drive youre using meets the performance criteria for ReadyBoost. If it fails, youll see a screen similar to the one below. But have no...
 
Tags: vista, windows vista, windows vista firewall, usb, thumb drive, usb thumb drive, notice vista performs, readyboost, enable readyboost
 
 
 
 
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Battle of the Thumb Drive Linux Systems

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2008-10-27 04:00:00 by Kevin Purdy in Lifehacker: Linux
...thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check out the list of distributions UNetbootin can download and installit's huge, and the names don't tell you much about which distro is best for on-the-go computing. Today we're detailing four...
 
Tags: linux, puppy, puppy linux, live, fully-live system, desktop, portable linux desktop, usb, usb thumb drive
 
 
 
 
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Thumb Studio 1.5 - Photo album generator with thumbnails and slideshow

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2008-04-18 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Windows > Latest releases
...Thumb Studio is an interesting option This program takes your photos and creates a photo album that can be instantly uploaded to your webpage via the developer's FTP server. You can create albums with previews and different colours in both HTML and Java. The program allows you to select exactly where to position the album on your webpage....
 
Tags: photo album, album, thumb studio, program, program takes, images, albums, off-line album, html
 
 
 
 
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USB AutoRunner Quick-Launches Thumb Drive Apps

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2008-05-06 15:00:00 by Adam Pash in Lifehacker: Windows
...thumb drive. We've explained in the past how to auto-run apps or documents when you insert your thumb drive by making your own autorun.inf filea Windows default convention for automatically launching files. USB AutoRunner creates this file for you, so setting up a working autorun.inf file is as simple as telling USB AutoRunner what you want...
 
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SoftPerfect Network Scanner Digs Through Networks from a Thumb Drive

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2008-10-24 04:00:00 by Kevin Purdy in Lifehacker: Windows