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    USB Key PC Emulator/Favorites

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Toughbook, Dec 29, 2009.

  1. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    Someone a few months ago posted a really cool thing about a program that you could install on your USB key that would basically allow you to plug into someone else's PC and open up your USB program and it would basically turn the host PC into your virtual PC with all of your mini-programs and INTERNET favorites.... Maybe even contacts too... I don't recall..... It was one of you super smart tech head Toughbook owners....

    Anyone remember? I can't find it one the search. I thought I bookmarked it but can't find it there either.
     
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    shackwrrr Notebook Consultant

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    mattpayne Notebook Consultant

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    h3lpmedic Notebook Consultant

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    You can always make a Bart-PC and run a slim down version of XP on a thumb drive
     
    h3lpmedic, Dec 30, 2009
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    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    If you use Firefox, just subscribe to XMarks (It's free).

    A little add-on program and voila - your most up-to-date BookMarks are available from ANY PC IN THE WORLD with FireFox on it.

    I know that doesn't bring one's ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT with; but it DOES put about 95% of my Office right there...

    mnem
    Fraggity.
     
    mnementh, Dec 31, 2009
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    Dave143 Notebook Consultant

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    For what it's worth, I use the LINUX on USB approach and like it very much. I have Puppy LINUX with a couple of browsers, MS Office (using the Wine environment) and Open office, as well as some other apps (pretty boring, I know). I plug it into any system and have the environment I need to operate. I can also plug it into my system and let anyone who wants to use it. Since I use a self-encrypting HDD, the guest cannot read or write anything on my system, only the LINUX environment on the USB. So, I do not have to worry about someone using it and peeping at my data or corrupting my system.
     
    Dave143, Jan 6, 2010
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  7. ToughNut

    ToughNut Notebook Evangelist

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    Can you elaborate more on this? I was attempting to retrieve data from a friend's laptop with crashed XP Home and corrupted boot record. The removed drive, connected to a 2.5">USB adapter, couldn't be accessed from Windows nor NTFSDOS with any of my laptops.

    What did the trick was a live Ubuntu CD that read NTFS & FAT32 partitions and that allowed me to copy/paste retrieved data (thank God there was a .gho image in the logical drive!!). That hair-losing and frustrating experience made me appreciate a portable external independent OS, be it on thumbdrive, SD card or CD.

    It's only now that I hear of XP running off a compact medium and I'm very keen to learn how. Any tips or links? Thanks!!

    Ron in SG
     
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    avservice Notebook Consultant

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    When I got some Sandisk thumb drives they had software on them called S3? I think.
    This allows special S3 apps to run from the drive on any machine and store your data there too.

    They have several apps available and several browsers among them.
    Everything needed just installs and runs from the thumb drive.

    Works well for me.
     
    avservice, Jan 7, 2010
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