What's in your USB Toolbox/Portable Apps folder?

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MicrosoftBob replied

5 March 2015, 10:39
Originally posted by stek View Post

WGAT

FTFY
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stek replied

5 March 2015, 08:18
Originally posted by never View Post

Scenario,

You've just got a shiny new USB 3.0 64GB pen drive.

What would your tops apps be to store on it, for IT Support.

Also would you put a bootable image on it ie Win 7, Hirens, Mini XP

look forward to your responses.

WGAS
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never replied

5 March 2015, 02:38
Engineers USB Toolkit

Scenario,

You've just got a shiny new USB 3.0 64GB pen drive.

What would your tops apps be to store on it, for IT Support.

Also would you put a bootable image on it ie Win 7, Hirens, Mini XP

look forward to your responses.
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rl4engc replied

12 February 2015, 17:03
Never had a problem accessing OneDrive, and I often need to get to my Outlook.

EAC it's perfectly legal to make a copy of a CD you own, I tend to buy the CD then immediately back it up as my car is deckless (I think that's the term) and media centre gets stuff from home server.

I think I need some sort of RSS agregator to access my various feeds.
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vwdan replied

12 February 2015, 17:01
I always get given full admin rights on my sites so I can do what I like
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cojak replied

12 February 2015, 16:35
Originally posted by jmo21 View Post

most places I've worked restrict both USB and access to cloud drives, so never been able to utilize something like PortableApps.

Yep, every client I've had for the last 3 years had/has this policy.
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jmo21 replied

12 February 2015, 15:50
most places I've worked restrict both USB and access to cloud drives, so never been able to utilize something like PortableApps.
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unixman replied

12 February 2015, 14:49
You're using Exact Audio Copy on the client site ?
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woohoo replied

12 February 2015, 14:06
Originally posted by cojak View Post

Up to 3 years ago I used PortableApps on a 32gb USB constantly. It was critical to my working day.

But clients' IT departments have locked down USB ports and so I have changed my working practices and have moved to iPad, myco mobile wifi and Dropbox.

ALL of my USB's are now languishing in a draw and 32gb has some financial archive folders stored away.

Bye bye Portable Apps.

I've only worked in one place that restricted the software I installed on their machines. Can you not replace the USB with say drop box and install from there? When you leave the client just uninstall?
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cojak replied

12 February 2015, 13:49
What's in your USB Toolbox/Portable Apps folder?

Up to 3 years ago I used PortableApps on a 32gb USB constantly. It was critical to my working day.

But clients' IT departments have locked down USB ports and so I have changed my working practices and have moved to iPad, myco mobile wifi and Dropbox.

ALL of my USB's are now languishing in a draw and 32gb has some financial archive folders stored away.

Bye bye Portable Apps.
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rl4engc started a topic What's in your USB Toolbox/Portable Apps folder?

12 February 2015, 13:16
What's in your USB Toolbox/Portable Apps folder?

Gig might be coming to an end shortly so starting to think about updating my USB stick with the things I use often to take with me, any suggestions welcome. Currently I use (all portable):

NB Some are for 'slack periods'

Firefox
AstroGREP
ExactAudioCopy
Beyond Compare
Notepad++
Clone Drive
MP3TagPortable
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