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FlightGeek's advice is of course pragmatic and sensible.

But if you absolutely must access certain websites blocked by some higher power....

One possibility is to use web-based proxies such as http://www.workfriendly.net/ or http://www.hidemyass.com/.

Which archiver program are you using to extract the ZIP package?

I would suggest trying to extract with a different archiver, such as PeaZip or Portable 7-Zip.

Just tried with no problems. Download file called "testdisk-6.6.win.zip". MD5 checksum is "54389c1c08fc7c4ad552bfbc2a4b1eeb". Extracted testdisk-6.6.win.zip. Top-level structure looks like this: doc\ dos\ win\ AUTHORS ChangeLog ... README THANKS Ran win\photorec_win.exe without a...

Does anyone know of a command-line app that is not portable?

That would be the most anal thing if such a beast exists!

Writes settings to user profile folder: [User profile folder]\Application Data\proxyvampire.ini

Thanks AlephX. It is indeed portable, so I have added it to the database. I tried a number of EXE files, and it worked without a problem. On average, compression ratio is slightly worse than UPX (about 2%). Only complaint is it does not provide a decompression function like UPX. But who knows, good ...

Based on my limited knowledge of Linux, is there any Linux app that is not portable?

I mean, with the right 'set' or 'setenv', you can point your config anywhere!

I have zero knowledge about Mac, so I am not sure what's the situation over there. Anyone like to comment?

Here's my RegShot output (relevant segments only): ---------------------------------- Keys added:6 ---------------------------------- HKU\S-1-5-21-329068152-343818398-725345543-1001\Software\Newzie HKU\S-1-5-21-329068152-343818398-725345543-1001\Software\Newzie\Newzie HKU\S-1-5-21-329068152-34381839...

agreed that Group Policy should be used, however you are running a portable app site and IMHO you should consider adding this app regardless of user problems (would you consider a forum poll to give it a fighting chance?) Hmmm, I have to agree with this. In this case, I am merely stating my persona...

one of the features of SP2 for XP is that you can manually make an entry in the registry to disable writing to a USB device this feature is meant for sys admins to protect companies from corporate theft via USB devices Thanks techno for the info! I didn't know that. Which brings me back to the orig...

The current entry points to the last freeware version (direct download).

I have no intention of removing it yet, since some folks might want to download the last freeware version for some reason.

But I definitely won't be updating the version number, since there is no free version after that.

USBwrite-protect is also one of them nice tools for running virus scans on infected comps from your USB drive, more as a safe guard kinda thing, so you Know the virus wont write to the files on the USB stick, I don't get it. Is there any memory stick that does not have a physical switch for enablin...

Just a 0-byte file will do. You can easily do that under Windows Explorer. Right-click on the folder, select "New, Text Document", type "imgburn.ini". Press <Enter>. That's all!

at this stage it is still beta, and each free version has an expiry date some 2 months later (the latest version came out yesterday and remains valid until 13.03.2007)

No, no expiryware please! That's pure evil!

I apologise if I have not explained it before, but here goes... Currently, a small number of files are hosted on this site. Typically, these are orphaned freeware for which there are no alternative download sites available, and do not have a license that prohibits redistribution. How do you know whi...