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I think you have that backwards. Grease Monkey is UJS and Stylish is CSS.

Nice attitude from a moderator. Please don't respond to any of my posts or participate in any thread I might start from now on and I will do the same for you. You ruin an otherwise good forum.

Which is why I posted what I did. I figured many people would look in the BIOS and not see the option for the flash drive. They would need to use th boot menu instead. That link was posted way back in the thread by me.

Haven't tried that yet. I assume you are using the program you linked in the first post to do this. I will reading up on that and making use of it. It will definitely give me more options with my flash drives.

IS the Macrium ISO the only thing on the flash drive? Is the ISO installed to the root of the drive?

I have restored several machines using the USB flash to boot from. I no longer bother with the CD/DVD I only use the flash drive. I do this because some PC's I maintain for friends and relatives are net books with no optical drives and because Macrium updates the rescue CD periodically and it's no problem to reformat the flash drive and put the updated ISO on it. With the CD/DVD you either have to scrap it and use a new one or use a CD-RW/DVD-RW and they can be flaky to boot from which is why regular CD-R is recommended. Also Flash drives are so cheap now days and so small and boot faster than CD/DVD I see no reason to use discs any more for this type of thing.

I can tell you that when I use the flash drive to boot there is nothing plugged in other than a USB mouse. Strange non of the USB options in the boot menu work for you. Did you try another flash drive? Maybe the one your using is just not working. PC's are flaky that way. Even try another USB port. I've seen a device work in one port but not another for no apparent reason.

I am sure there will be several people who will want to try using the bootable flash and go to the BIOS settings to change the boot sequence like they did for the CD/DVD and find that there is no option to set the flash drive in there. They will then assume their machine can't boot the flash drive. I just wanted to let them know that they probably can even though they don't see the option in the BIOS settings. They just need to use the boot menu. If they can set the boot sequence to the flash drive and thats what they prefer thats fine no problem there. I never meant to convey that there was a problem altering the boot sequence.

The point is many people will find that when they go to the BIOS settings to change the sequence they will not find the option to use a flash drive. They than assume their machine will not boot from a flash drive because they don't see the option for it in the boot sequence. If they plug in the flash than reboot and access the boot menu they will see the flash drive as an option now and can boot from it. If your machine has a flash drive option in the boot sequence menu in the BIOS settings than great you can set it once and forget it.

On several machines I have tried this on there was no option in the BIOS settings boot sequence for a flash drive. There was the HDD, the optical drive, and some others but no flash. This is why you need to plug in the bootable flash and than reboot and find the boot menu not the BIOS settings. Than the flash drive should show and you can boot form it. You will have to do this every time you want to boot from the flash drive. Many people just go into the settings and set the boot sequence so the optical drive is first and than it will boot from CD/DVD when ever there is a bootable CD/DVD in the drive on reboot. Using the boot menu lets you pick what to boot from that one time without changing the default sequence

The point I was trying to make is NOT to alter the boot sequence. Plug in the properly set up USB flash drive. Reboot the machine. Press the key/s that bring up the boot menu. In the boot menu you will see several options including your plugged in flash drive. Select it and let it boot. I would remove all other drives you might have plugged in so there is no confusion. Once booted you can plug in the external HDD that contains the Macrium back up image. What key/s you use to bring up the boot menu will vary depending on the manufacturer of the PC. You can find out what the key/s are the same way you found out what key/s to use to get into the BIOS settings. Watch for them on reboot. When the BIOS load on reboot you will see the settings and boot menu options with the key/s to use to get them listed beside them. The flash drive must be properly formatted and the ISO must be bootable or you won't boot no matter what you do. The flash drive must be Fat 16. You get the Macrium ISO from within the Macrium program. Than simply tell UNetbootin to put the ISO on the flash drive and let it do it's thing. Than follow the instructions I gave. I have booted 6 different machines this way no problem. Most of them had different key/s combos to get the boot menu up so you will have to find the proper one's for your machine.

Couple things here. First there is a very simple to understand tutorial right on the Macrium site on how to create a bootable thumb drive with the Macrium recovery disk ISO. It is basically a 5 minute job. Surprised all the Macrium fans haven't seen it yet. http://www.macrium.com/blog/2008/09/23/How...uxUSBStick.aspx Secondly, as for weather your PC can boot from a thumbdrive there is a few things to consider. Most people go into the BIOS and look for the boot order in the settings. Many find that there is no USB to select and they think they can't boot from the USB because of this. Well they are wrong. What you want to do is look for the key combo that launches the BIOS boot menu not the BIOS settings menu. You will see the keys to use when the machine is booting. You should see a key combo for "settings" and one for "boot menu". Once you get the proper key/s plug in the bootable thumbdrive and reboot the machine and hit the key/s for the boot menu when you see the bios screen. If you do this the boot menu appears and the plugged in thumbdrive will be an option to select to boot from.

GeekU? Not sure what this about?

I know how to add Fanboy's list to Opera and Firefox but how do you use it with Chrome?

Macrium Reflect and Drive Image XML do not require the .Net frameWork.

When and why was Ad Sweep discontinued?

I thought update 14 was the newest?

Here is a link to the biggest list I have ever seen of malware tools. It has a bunch of rescue disks on it and many other apps I had not even heard of. It's worth checking out. http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/pr...-list-world.htm

I have zero issue with patching the UXtheme dll. No only that but the themes you use after patching use zero resources unlike Windows Blinds which does use resources because you have to run a program to use them. Once patched you do not "install" the themes from Deviant Art. You drop them into your themes folder and than select them like you do with the built in themes that come with XP. Getting rid of the theme is simply a matter of deleting the file from the folder.

Deviant Art has thousands of themes for XP. I have looked at most of them but this guy has by far the best looking themes. They are clean and not flashy and he has a lot of them to choose from. Here is his gallery from Deviant Art http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/gallery/#Visual-Styles

I use this and it works well http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

So what is the deal with this site? He links to Portable apps.com which I use many apps from. Is he affiliated with them or just make other apps in PAF to go with the apps on Portable apps.com? There is a portable Safari, Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, Ashampoo Burning Studio, Ad- Aware and some others I have not seen in Portable versions before.

Thanks for posting that.The site has some very interesting portable apps on it besides the portable Chrome. Ashampoo Burning studio, Spybot Search and Destroy and several others I have not seen in portable format before. I have never heard of the site though until now so I'm a little nervous about using the apps. Have you used the site often or is it new to you as well?

I cant seem to stay logged in with Opera no matter what I do and this started with the recent update to the forum skin. I have to log in each time and I have not run an SAS scan don't know if this is related. Did you let SAS clean anything during the scan?

Hmmm interesting comments. I have never had a false positive with Avira but had more than I wanted with Avast and I have current installs of Avast on family member's machines and they get the false positives to. It's very annoying since the scan stops until you acknowledge the alert and take some action. I will admit Avast has more features than Avira and some are nice like the boot scan option but I don't use those extra features and and I don't miss them. I prefer the clean simple UI of Avira and the low resource usage and fast scan times. On top of this Avira consistently ranks among the top in detection rates. In the end use what works for you.