Have question about Pstart for USB Drives

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SBMongoos

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I opted to get a another USB drive after having test a different one that had the U3 software. I really liked the U3 idea but it locked up my PC. So I bought another USB drive and loaded PStart onto it. However I don't get some of the nice features that I did with U3.

Anyone know much about this program? Here's my issues:

1) portable Firefox never remembers the homepage (uses password in cookie file)
2) I'm always asked by Thunderbird if it's the default mail client
3) I cannot get PStart itself to run automatically

Never had issues with any of these under the U3 USB drive. The U3 menu pops up after you plug it in. Was able to test it on my laptop.
 
http://www.pegtop.net/start/faq.htm

Q. Is there a way to autostart PStart when I plug in my USB drive?

A. I'm sorry to disappoint you, this is not possible at all* It's not a PStart limitation, but a Windows limitation. Microsoft doesn't support it like they support autorun for CDs. Windows does read the autorun.inf file (if available) from CDs, which can be used to start any file on the CD automatically. But Windows does not read such a file from an USB or other removable device. Yes, you can start an application when an USB drive is plugged in, but only if some other utility is already running on that PC that can watch the USB port. So what you need is some "PStart starter" which has to be installed to your PC (and running there). It basically is a utility which "makes Windows think" your USB drive is a CD. but you have to install such a utility to every computer you want to enable this. There is no utility, which just has to be installed to your USB drive, because this simply is not possible (well, let's wait what Windows Vista brings). There are different utilities around which can do the job. I've never used any, so I cannot really tell you which one is best. And I've not found a free one, but following sound quite interesting: AutoRun USB by ToroSoft Software, DeskMount by blackbit.net and Autorun USB by USB Software (Pegtop Software is not responsible for the content of these external websites).


* Some USB devices now are capable of it. Others can be updated with another version of the firmware. Many still don't have this feature. In case your USB device does support the autorun feature (by faking Windows), you simply can create an autorun.inf file.
 
Read that the other day. Typically find out that if I dig hard enough on the internet I find a solution.

Thanks..
 
too true that

after wading through a 530 page manual some dozen odd times I just located the error code from my DMM in a brochure on the internet :p

and to the end
http://www.searchlore.org/

"a seeker that knows his skills will always be able to find what he's looking for in a relatively short time, no matter how big the web is or will be, this being the "first optimistical law of seeking""
 
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