U3Helper: Make almost any application U3 Smart capable

Usually U3 program developers have to take care, their apps are U3-compatible, don't write anything to the registry, run without installation of some drivers, etc. pp. So the selection of U3-applications is rather small and it's taking ages for new apps to get released. Now there is a tool that makes this development much easier... U3Helper!  

I'll bet at least some of you already heard of these new USB Flash sticks with U3-functionality? There you can install applications which run on any Windows-PC you put the stick in and after removing the stick, all traces are removed as if you were never there. So you can have all your lovely tools with you.

Usually developers have to take care, their apps are U3-compatible, don't write anything to the registry, run without installation of some drivers, etc. pp. So the selection of U3-applications is rather small and it's taking ages for new apps to get released.

U3Helper
(c)2006-2007 by Markus Birth <
mbirth@webwriters.de>

Some words for the manifest.u3i:

If your app doesn't store anything inside %USERPROFILE% or such, then just call it directly
inside the <appStart> - such as:

  <appStart workingdir="%U3_APP_DATA_PATH%" cmd="%U3_HOST_EXEC_PATH%\WebMon.exe">-prefs "%U3_APP_DATA_PATH%\WebMon.ini" -pages "%U3_APP_DATA_PATH%\pages\WebPages.dat"</appStart>

BUT: If you app DOES store some stuff inside %USERPROFILE% (mostly noticeable if there appears something under
     C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\<somewhat>\<something>), call it as follows:

  <appStart cmd="%U3_DEVICE_EXEC_PATH%\..\..\0f90f88c-5e05-4cab-8c3a-e1c0112b06fd\Exec\U3Helper.exe">appstart</appStart>

This way, the environment variables %USERPROFILE% and a bunch of other related will be set to point to the
data directory on the U3-stick and therefore those app will store its data there instead of on the host system.

Download it here:
http://pphl.birth-online.de/dlcount.php?id=markus.birth-online.de&url=http://files.birth-online.de/ahk_U3Helper.zip
BugTracker:
http://flyspray.birth-online.de/proj1
Forum:
http://vanilla.birth-online.de/3/

mARKUS

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