And here I thought I was so smart because I had my autorun.inf file run a batch file to start up my select programs!
Duh!
Thanks for the tip.

Wonderful.

It is a good day when a new trick is learned.

Thanks for your help!
/opsimathic

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Better late than never.

The reason I use multi-launch instead of having PStart load it up is because I don't always run the same programs on start up.

On my days off, I might just load PStart, FontsPortable, PortableFileAssociator, FloatLED, stuff like that. On days I need to work on web development, then I'll have it load all that plus Apache, MySQL, along with my favorite programming editor. If I want to do desktop program development, then I won't load Apache, etc, but will load Lazurus or Delphi and a few other things that I like to use for development.

You can rename multilaunch, as long as the INI filename matches the base file name of the multi-launch program, it will read that and you can run a different set of programs. Or, you can place it in different directories to organize it.

I'll look over the forums and read up on how to do submissions, and submit it. The only thing it's missing is instructions, so I'll have to type those up.

EDIT: Submitted. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5624

Pstart can launch a batch file, any batch file.

I would bet that you could name all the apps you would use in a particular situation and create a batch file to launch them.

Pstart could then launch the apps via the batch files.

Each could have its own icon to visually represent it.

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Unless I am missing something and Multi-Launch does something that I am not aware of.
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On a side note to make the above automatic, you could get into batch files that would look for a specific file on the host computer and then (depending on the name of the file in x location) call a batch, that would then launch your apps, thus fully automating the process (assuming you launch specific apps on a specific host).
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x location would be anywhere on host not likely to be emptied or cleaned, likely a folder structure created by you to be unique and in an unused folder area. Likely file candidates would be a simple txt file with the name for the batch to be executed, such as work, home, or in the absence of both it could do nothing or something.

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Also ASuite (and so the main launcher of my suite) includes advanced features like autorun at launcher startup. They are available if you open the launcher window and then right-click on a software and click Properties. There are even a few more features that in PStart.

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The problem with using batch files is that there is one fairly restrictive computer that I frequent, where not only the DOS prompt is disallowed, but batch files will not run either. Therefore, batch files are not an option, as it would not be a completely portable solution across all computer situations.

Of course, I have heard of some computers where you are so restricted you cannot run a program from removable media (even CD) which would be a useless computer for you anyway, so that's the one exception I don't worry about.

I like Executor, you can define groups of apps you want to open at a time.

I much prefer using keywords instead of a start menu anyway.

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is it stealth?

Search the site for the following two applications and give them a try (nothing complicated just a test to see if it will run).

Bat to Exe Converter

BeCyIconGrabber

Also you may want to use XNView (or something else) for an icon creator.


The important one is "Bat to Exe Converter" this allows you to convert a Bat file to an EXE (as the name implies),
use the ghost option to hide the window.

If this fails you may really be not able to use batch files (though of course a compiled batch is not? really a batch anymore right?)

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1. GreatNews
2. POP Peeper
3. 7-Zip
4. Notepad++
5. FreeFileSync
6. AIMP
7. Opera
8. CCleaner
9. Everything
10.KeePass

Difficult decision to leave these out - PicPick, OperaUSB, Keynote, Kalender, TeamViever, PStart

My current top 10:

01. StrokeIt - universal mouse gesture app, can't live without it
02. PowerPro - a swiss knife for all kind of stuff (not entirely portable)
03. Total Commander
04. Executor - greatest launcher ever, I use also for file & registry search (using 3rd party tools)
05. Everything - tiny & fast file search
06. Dropbox (JPE version)
07. Notepad++
08. Irfanview
09. Opera/Chrome - sorry, I'm just switching from O to C
10. Assox - for file associations & all kinds of system setup stuffs. One run after system restore & all set and done

Must mention PDF-Change Viewer, TyperTask, Taskbar Shuffle, WinSCP, Gamma Panel, icoFX, Total Uninstall, VirtualBox, ImgBurn, Registry Workshop - commercial and not portable by default, Miranda, Monoff4, PotPlayer, RadioSure, SyncBack Free (portablized), System Explorer 1.5, TClock Light, etc