scriptdaemon
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Yes, thank you for that. Forgot the link.
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Any chance to see Piriform's apps on Steam? =P
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I'm just assuming without trying it that it has the same behaviour as Firefox's own Site Preferences cleaner which unfortunately also removes bookmarks?
I just used it and none of my bookmarks appear to be missing.
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Well I didn't use the Immunize feature because I knew that too probably wouldn't be "portable," also some of that stuff I already knew would be done outside of the ability of the PortableApps.com Launcher to actually deal with. It's not bad, but like I stated before some of the stuff just needs disabled for it to be truly portable.
If there was a way to disable certain features, I would have done it. I was thinking of going through and just deleting things leftover for different things that we generally advise against (auto-start with windows, creating desktop icon, etc.).
Also, I asked Safer Networking if they'd be willing to work with the portable version so it would support Firefox Portable, etc. but they didn't seem interested. =\
(I'm the Spybot Portable dev, btw).
EDIT: For those of you running into portability issues, would you mind posting on the PA.c forum so I can keep track of any of its issues?
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Hello guys,
after a little test with regshot (a program that compares the windows registry before and after the installation of any programs) this is rte result after the using of the prortable version of Speccy
I think that we can finally consider the portable version of Speccy absolutely NOT PORTABLE.
You agree?
While I haven't chceked if it still leaves stuff in the registry, they added the ability to save to an .ini file in the latest version (though they did it in a way different from their other programs for some reason).
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Yes and I'm saying it doesn't run properly without admin rights.
Which is irrelevant to this thread.
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No it doesn't properly. I've taken it to work and it shows an admin messagebox on startup then you get Access denied on the Graphics.
Yes, it does. I'm not arguing what features work and what don't, I'm saying (for the third time now) that it *runs* without admin on XP and 2000, but doesn't run *at all* without admin on Vista and 7.
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Are you talking about installing or running?
I have WinXP and Vista and they both work at they should do but if I take the exe to work you get the admin message and it shows all values apart from the later version which says Graphics - Access is denied, but the earlier version showed info there.
Running.
On Vista and 7, Speccy doesn't load at all without admin rights. It does load without admin rights in XP (and I think 2000), however.
I'm wondering if this is intentional, or if it could be fixed.
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Speccy seems to work fine in 2000 and XP without admin (minus some features), but it doesn't even load in Vista and 7 without admin.
Is this a bug with Speccy, or can Speccy not run without admin on Vista and 7?
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In a PortableApps context, what standards are you working from?
Well, I certainly *could* just add registry key backup to the launcher to make it adhere to PA.c's standards, but why bother when I can just ask Piriform to update it to be consistent with the portable builds of their other apps?
As far as PA.c goes, nothing gets left behind and settings ought to be backed up for use with any computer without having to re-apply them.
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No, it just means you need to re-apply your settings.
Hence, not portable.
Yes I realise exactly what you're asking for ... I didn't realise the other Piriform zip builds used ini files though.Indeed they do. I help develop portable applications for PortableApps.com, and one of the other users has already created (still-in-development) launchers for the other three Piriform apps. This is also why I ask regarding the way Speccy saves its settings, it'd be a lot easier to create a launcher for it if I didn't have to back up the settings from the registry.
As I said before, Speccy is still in Beta so maybe this will be done at a later stage.Indeed as well, which very well might be why it's not actually portable yet. However, the purpose of a beta is to provide constructive criticism.
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I think Luck10 may be referring to build rather than version. Speccy is still in beta and there's only an msi and a zip.
It depends how purist you want to be. It's may not meet the purist definition of a 'portable application'; but nonetheless it is portable, you can stick it on a flash drive and run it on any PC. Other Piriform software (and this may happen to Speccy) has U3 builds which presumably are true 'portable apps'.
I think most users are primarily interested in the fact it will run off a flash drive.
Saving to the registry makes it not portable. The portable builds (not U3, but the ones in the .zip files) for the other programs (CCleaner, etc.) do not save to the registry, but rather to a settings.ini file. That is for what I am asking.
If you launch Speccy portable from a flash drive on another computer while it saves to the registry, the settings get left behind on that computer leaving clutter and the settings will have to be reapplied when using on another computer.
And for the record, U3 is a dead format as far as I'm concerned (PortableApps.com ftw).
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No version of Speccy saves an ini as the other apps do.
That's the point of my thread...
Nothing to do with the installed version.
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The "portable" version of Speccy does not save to an .ini, but instead saves its settings in the registry.
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Perhaps this is intentional, but the peripherals doesn't have a section in the summary page.
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It would make more sense to add this to Defraggler, since that is a defragging program.
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I'd like to suggest the ability to show battery life for laptops (and anything else related).
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What does wiping disk free space actually do?
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I think CCleaner should add OpenWith MRU cleaning, which would remove incorrect programs from a filetype's open with menu, and remove any duplicate entries (Firefox is shown twice for my .html files for some reason).
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I like the look a lot better. I still prefer the white box to the dialog box, however. On the file list tab I notice a very small amount of excess whitespace, and though not a huge problem, I think the file list box should be expanded to fit the entire tab so no whitespace exists. Regarding the other tab, just shrink the window and the problem is solved.
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I, too, prefer the old GUI.
My own proposal: I think there should be two views instead of the two tabs. The default view would be basically the default tab as it is now, and the other view would be the way it used to look (the buttons, the smaller white defrag prompt, etc., not just the file list as it is now). When clicking the view files button, it would open the old view (and allowing the user somehow to easily navigate back to the other view). Also, it would save your preferred view as the default view.
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I may be wrong, but I could swear in the previous release I was able to sort the various fields (size of file, no. of fragments, etc.) even while it was analyzing, but now I have to wait until it's done. Plus, it no longer saves the field I want to keep it sorted by if I sort it by a different field other than the number of fragments.
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Also, Page Defragmentation upon Boot would be nice, so would registry defragmentation.
I like the idea of registry defragmentation a lot.
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If the programmer that coded the un-installer would remove ALL registry entries added by the install program then it would make CCleaner's job much easier.
That's why there are applications like Total Uninstall to monitor application installs and help remove all traces of the install.
Unfortunately I don't think it'll be anything more than a dream.
Steam now distributes software titles.
in The Lounge
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The purpose of this thread was more just to mention that Steam now distributes software titles (though I realize that point probably didn't come off very well), but for how often Piriform updates its software I'd rather just let Steam handle that for me.