Re: Portable application launcher (automatically)

de Mike S. 01/13/2007 12:46

In article <Xns98B65F17C2733klaatunospaminvalid@127.0.0.1>,
Klaatu <klaatu@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:52:59 GMT, Vegard Krog Petersen posted to
>alt.comp.freeware:
>
>> A question for the "portable" experts... :-)
>>
>> I just bought two usb-flash sticks for use in my workplace. One 1G
>> Kingston DataTraveler and one 512 MB SanDisk CruzerMicro. Unfortunately,
>> the U3-based ones were a bit to expensive for my boss.
>>
>> So I'm looking for a simple application launcher who starts
>> automatically from the usb-sticks, and it's simple to add and remove
>> entries in the start menu.
>
>You won't find any that launch automatically from a non-U3 drive I'm
>afraid. The best you'll do is have a window that pops up and the user has
>to click OK to launch the program.
>
>That said, PStart is the best I've found. http://www.pegtop.de/start/

PStart is an excellent program, but I find it to be cumbersome when you
have a lot of entries. Adding large amounts of programs to it takes too
many steps, and when run on a flash drive it takes forever to start up
as it loads all the icons and paths. It alsk takes a huge amount of RAM
when loaded, for such a small and simple program.

Quite by accident I discovered QSEL which seems to be a highly interesting
alternative ... though the interface is quite different (scrolling windows
of icons instead of a hierarchical start-menu like appearance). However,
adding new items is by drag-and-drop, it seems to load much faster than
PStart, and it is suitable for portable use because it figures out how to
use relative paths when run on removeable media.

http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/wpop.htm#qsel