One week of using portable x2
Posted: 2007 Jun 24, 15:08
Hi all,
I've been using Portable x2 for more than one week now, and I am really happy with it. I'm carrying this thing everywhere, and although I'm a x2-pro user for almost 3 years now, with the portable version it feels like its a brand new thing once again. Thanks, Nikos, portability, to me, is by far the best of all the great improvements we had lately!
There are however, some things that might need a bit of polishing.
First: the register import isn't always flawles. Last week I've been working on a xp computer that wasn't exactly the world's fastest machine. I've got my portable x2 on a usb external harddrive, which by nature isn't as fast as a usb flashdrive. Anyway, in a few instances it didn't seem to have incorporated all keys (before x2 started running). For example, the correct folders were loaded in the panes, but my user commands were missing, or it started with the dialog about the pdf-filters (the one you get when running x2 for the 1st time). I think there is something wrong with x2 here, because most of the times the problem was gone whenever I restarted x2.
Second: I understand that this is by design, but it isn't convenient, I think: X2 portable doesn't save its settings after a session. It removes all keys from the register, and that's really good, but I would like not to lose them completely. Wouldn't it be possible to export the settings to the x2settings.reg just before removing the keys from the register?
Ok, I started with the settings from the desktop version (like it said in the instructions for x2 port.) That's fine for a start, because that way all my favorite settings are there right at the start. But after using the portable version, it gets its own settings. Bookmarked folders, customized folder groups and user commands, for example, that apply only to the environment of a frequently used host computer.
Right now I use the 'export settings' function a lot to update the x2settings.reg on my ext. drive. (I need to think of some clever way of backing up the old settings at the same time/in the same click; anyone who has ideas is invited... ) But sometime I just forget to export before I exit x2, and then the latest changes are gone. Besides that, it feels like a workaround.
Third: I tried using it on a Vista machine, and somehow the registry settings didn't get imported. Sorry, I can't tell you much more details. I think you'd be interested in my access rights to this machine or its UAC-settings, but I'm not familiar to that stuff in Vista yet: I can't tell you. If I get the change I'll try it again. If anyone has the same experience: please confirm this.
I've been using Portable x2 for more than one week now, and I am really happy with it. I'm carrying this thing everywhere, and although I'm a x2-pro user for almost 3 years now, with the portable version it feels like its a brand new thing once again. Thanks, Nikos, portability, to me, is by far the best of all the great improvements we had lately!
There are however, some things that might need a bit of polishing.
First: the register import isn't always flawles. Last week I've been working on a xp computer that wasn't exactly the world's fastest machine. I've got my portable x2 on a usb external harddrive, which by nature isn't as fast as a usb flashdrive. Anyway, in a few instances it didn't seem to have incorporated all keys (before x2 started running). For example, the correct folders were loaded in the panes, but my user commands were missing, or it started with the dialog about the pdf-filters (the one you get when running x2 for the 1st time). I think there is something wrong with x2 here, because most of the times the problem was gone whenever I restarted x2.
Second: I understand that this is by design, but it isn't convenient, I think: X2 portable doesn't save its settings after a session. It removes all keys from the register, and that's really good, but I would like not to lose them completely. Wouldn't it be possible to export the settings to the x2settings.reg just before removing the keys from the register?
Ok, I started with the settings from the desktop version (like it said in the instructions for x2 port.) That's fine for a start, because that way all my favorite settings are there right at the start. But after using the portable version, it gets its own settings. Bookmarked folders, customized folder groups and user commands, for example, that apply only to the environment of a frequently used host computer.
Right now I use the 'export settings' function a lot to update the x2settings.reg on my ext. drive. (I need to think of some clever way of backing up the old settings at the same time/in the same click; anyone who has ideas is invited... ) But sometime I just forget to export before I exit x2, and then the latest changes are gone. Besides that, it feels like a workaround.
Third: I tried using it on a Vista machine, and somehow the registry settings didn't get imported. Sorry, I can't tell you much more details. I think you'd be interested in my access rights to this machine or its UAC-settings, but I'm not familiar to that stuff in Vista yet: I can't tell you. If I get the change I'll try it again. If anyone has the same experience: please confirm this.