How to start apps from a toolbar on every computer HELP PLS

[Funky77]

Hallo,

after hours or searching i now hope to find help here.
My question is if there is a toolbar or a launch tool which starts diverent portable apps which are on a portable device (usb stick)?
I mean. that i can l run this toolbar on every computer i stick the device in without change the links.
Because i tried to put different progs in such a toolbar and when i put the usb stick in another computer the toolbar cant find the programms because the computer gives the usb stick another device key (like H:\)


I hope you can help me.

[m^(2)]

Hallo,

after hours or searching i now hope to find help here.
My question is if there is a toolbar or a launch tool which starts diverent portable apps which are on a portable device (usb stick)?
I mean. that i can l run this toolbar on every computer i stick the device in without change the links.
Because i tried to put different progs in such a toolbar and when i put the usb stick in another computer the toolbar cant find the programms because the computer gives the usb stick another device key (like H:\)


I hope you can help me.

Most launchers allows for this. They usually either set some variables that you can use when configuring path (i.e. Total Commander has %COMMANDER_PATH%) or allow for relative paths i.e. ".\app.exe" would mean app.exe that's placed in the same directory as the launcher.

[Kea]

You could try Portable StartMenu (TPFC=http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1365)

Extract Portable StartMenu to a folder on the usb stick and build the menu. The launcher shows an icon in the tray and it will automatically compensate for dynamic drive letters. You can even build an autorun to start the launcher.

[ashghost]

You could try Portable StartMenu (TPFC=http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1365)

Or just about any of the other apps in the "Application Launchers" category on TPFC: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?sc=116&so=p

The above link will show them sorted by popularity, with PStart first, as the most popular (and my personal favorite).

[Local]

There are plenty of launchers out there as have already been mentioned
but maybe if Funky77 would like to specify which launcher/toolbar is being used already somebody may be able to give a direct solution for that one.

[Funky77]

thanks for your answers.

i first tried this with the launcher of stardock "ObjeckDock" I also have a "porable" version of it, but this doenst work correctly or I wasnet able to "install" it for the portable use. Is it possible to upload it here? here you can get the portable version

http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?p=15306

the problem is that the settings wont load when i stick the usb stick in another pc. Perhaps you can help me with this problem.

Another lauchner i tried was this one:

http://majorgeeks.com/download2790.html

And here i have the problem i mentioned in the first post.

The better launcher would be the stardock, because the possiblilties are much more than the second one.

Every answer is welcome!

[ashghost]

There are 3 dock-style launchers in the database: RocketDock, Y'x Dock, and RKLauncher.

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?q=dock&m=Search

Of these three, RocketDock is the most mature (and the most similar to ObjectDock).

The problem you're running into is the use of absolute paths when you add files to Y'z Dock. After adding a file, you'll have to manually edit the dock item's properties to use relative paths. Here's an example, in case you're not familiar.

Let's say you have Y'z Dock and GreatNews on your usb drive like this:

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F:\apps\YzDock\yzdock.exe     (or whatever it's called)
F:\apps\GreatNews\greatnews.exe

When you manually change the path to greatnews.exe from the absolute path above (which includes the drive letter that may change), you should enter the following:

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..\GreatNews\GreatNews.exe

The 2 periods mean "up one directory level from the directory that contains yzdock.exe".

If you choose RocketDock, it works differently: after right-clicking on your dock entry and chooosing "Icon settings...", you just delete the drive letter and colon from the path, so that

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F:\apps\GreatNews\greatnews.exe

becomes

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\apps\GreatNews\greatnews.exe

Hope this helps!

[Funky77]

ok thanks for your help.

i now try the rocketdock. But is there a possibliity that i can run the rocketdock twice?

[cmmehl]

No, you can't run several instances simultaneously, and have to close a running instance (rightclick) before starting another one. However you can create as many instances as you want.

I had used rocketdock before, and created several instances by theme (editing, networking etc), to group programs. But now I use USB-pro (search for it here) which is a more than suitable replacement with the tabs, offering categorization. The prog is still in development, though, but very promising.

Cheers
Chris