Upgrading Firefox Portable

from portableapps.com:

To upgrade to a newer version of Firefox Portable, just install a new copy of Firefox Portable right over your old one. All your data will be preserved.

• If you're upgrading from Portable Firefox (older name and directories), make a copy of your existing profile folder within the PortableFirefox\Data\profile directory on your portable drive.
• Then download the new version of Firefox Portable and copy your profile from the old version into the new version within FirefoxPortable\Data\profile.
• If you added any plugins or searchplugins, you should copy those directories as well (PortableFirefox\plugins to FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins and PortableFirefox\firefox\searchplugins to FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\searchplugins).

Cuesheet Processor

Cuesheet Processor (CueProc)

Introduction
Cuesheet Processor (CueProc) is a command-line tool for converting audio CD images into another format such as WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, MPC, WMA, etc.

The functions of this tool can be summarized as follows:

• Parse a cuesheet (a .cue or audio file with the cuesheet embedded). Field values in a cuesheet (e.g., TITLE, PERFORMER, REM DATE, etc) will be used by the latter job.
• Read audio data in a CD image (supported format:

FLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, and WAVE).

Extract tracks in a CD image to individual WAVE files.

Execute an external encoder with predefined command-line arguments for each track.

CueProc sets appropriate command-line arguments (e.g., naming for output files, tagging, etc) automatically by specifying an output plugin

Execute an external encoder with configurable command-line arguments.

Send audio stream of each track to STDIN of the external encoder.

Enumerate cuesheets recursively under a directory.

Process multiple cuesheets at a time, which is useful for converting an audio collection into a lossy format.

Skip encoding when the corresponding output file exists, which is useful for converting new CD images only.

CueProc is the successor tool to

Audio CD Image Reader (ACDIR) and LAME with cuesheet input.

Audio CD image and cuesheet
An audio CD can be represented by an audio CD image that usually consists of a single audio file (e.g., CDImage.wav for an uncompressed image; CDImage.ape for an image compressed losslessly by Monkey's Audio) and cuesheet (e.g., CDImage.cue).

The portion of an audio file stores the audio data of the entire CD.

A cuesheet (e.g., CDImage.cue) describes a track layout and supplementary meta-data (e.g., CD-TEXT). Being free from C1/C2 errors and the ambiguity of pre-gaps, audio CD image is an ideal solution to archive audio CDs without quality loss.

An audio CD image can be generated by Exact Audio Copy with a menu item, "Action" - "Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet".

A number of CD writing software such as CDRWin, Nero, burnatonce can reproduce the original audio CD from an image.

Some software audio players such as foobar 2000 and Soud Player Lilith can play CD images.

A network audio solution, SqueezeBox combined with SlimServer, turns audio CD images in a HDD into a posh music jukebox with huge amount of CDs.

However, audio CD image is not suitable for portable audio players since the size per an image is far from portable (ca. 300-700MB). Thus, we need a method to convert audio CD images to another portable format, e.g., MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MP4.

Nowadays, a number of tools can perform this job:
foobar 2000
Sound Player Lilith
DAEMON Tools (IMHO it's too much to mount an CD image only to use Exact Audio Copy again for compressing )
Please consider these tools if you prefer GUI. If you want a command-line tool for this job, CueProc is what you've been looking for.

impostazioni di applicazione resa portatile

Tratto dal forum del sito vuplayer.com:

Re: Possibility of a portable version/modification?

by Kreator on Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:02 pm

As far as I know, there's no portable version of VUPlayer. But you can use registry import/export operations to load/save the player settings.Make 2 files on your removable drive:

Save.bat:

reg export HKCU\Software\VUPlayer Settings.reg

reg delete HKCU\Software\VUPlayer

Load.bat:

reg import Settings.reg

That's one simple way to carry your
setting from one PC to another. If you don't want to erase the player settings
forom the registry, delete the second line of Save.bat file.

Utile suggerimento, da provare con altre applicazioni...

SvcHost.exe

tratto da xtremecomputing:

The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder.

At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load.

Multiple instances of Svchost.exe can run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services.
Therefore, separate services can run, depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started.
This grouping of services permits better control and easier debugging.

Svchost.exe groups are identified in the following registry key:
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Svchost.

Each value under this key represents a separate Svchost group and appears as a separate instance when you are viewing active processes.

Each value is a REG_MULTI_SZ value and contains the services that run under that Svchost group.

Each Svchost group can contain one or more service names that are extracted from the following registry key, whose Parameters key contains a ServiceDLL value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Service.

To view the list of services that are running in Svchost:

Click Start on the Windows taskbar, and then click Run.

In the Open box, type CMD, and then press ENTER.
Type Tasklist /SVC, and then press ENTER.

Tasklist displays a list of active processes.

The /SVC switch shows the list of active services in each process.

For more information about a process, type
the following command, and then press ENTER:

Tasklist /FI "PID eq processID" (with the quotation marks).

ClearType

Sul sito di Microsoft trovi il tuner online.

Microsoft ClearType is an unprecedented innovation in font display technology that dramatically improves font display resolution and marks a genuine breakthrough in screen readability.

Per attivare il ClearType anche nella schermata di Logon bisogna procedere con la modifica del registro di Windows.
Dal registro di Windows modificare le seguenti chiavi: 

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\FontSmoothing (di tipo STRINGA)

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\FontSmoothingType (di tipo DWORD)

Assicurarsi che entrambi i valori siano impostati a 2.

In questo modo il ClearType sarà attivato per ogni utente e sulla schermata di Logon di Windows XP

Il tool ClearTweak

allows you to change the contrast setting of the ClearType® setting for Windows XP. ClearType® is designed to enhance LCD displays. It may appear slightly blurry on standard desktop monitors.