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You may want grub4dos, a variant of one of the two Linux bootloaders that does exactly what you want.
https://gna.org/projects/grub4dos/

Just a brief note from the website:

It was good to see portablefreeware.com back online after the last couple of days of continuous messages about unavailability.

alexeena, You would probably be better serviced by starting a new thread in Chit Chat instead of awakening a sleeping thread. Personally, I've been using a Vonage voip as a second phone line for about five years. I have had problems from time to time, but about the same level as my current Verizon l...

OOPS, Checker.

There is an update, but the website indicates it is 2009-03-17; still several days earlier than your post

This is what I was responding to:
<q>I just want to hide it from casual users who would just shut down my programs (wife, children, etc)</q>

With the OP's later message, it looks like he want's spyware. Sorry, that isn't what he asked for originally. I would not have replied.

You aren't asking for anything particularly unusual, so long as you are willing to have an entry on the Notification area of the Task bar. Personally, I use the PortableApps Menu R34 mod variant on USB drives, USB sticks, SD cards, and in my user directory on my client's machine (where I do not have...

do the same job, "desktop switching" I am using virtual PC. its free and very easy to use. Interesting observation, but desktop switchers and virtual machine systems (like virtual PC) are really intended as solutions to quite different problems. desktop switchers are aimed at the issue of...

I've tried to use Everything without success. It doesn't start indexing. From the help file, it appears it does not support FAT32 volumes. My only Windows machine came as WinXP on FAT32; I have no good reason to change.

You can't resize an image larger than the memory you have available. That is true of the portable version and the installed (original) version.

Hi, I've installed your version of Portable VirtualBox. But, when I want to create a new virtual box and to resize the image from 2GB to 3GB, I always obtain the same message : "the memory could not be read"... Could anyone help me ? Thanks a lot. How much RAM do you have on the host mach...

appsuser wrote:"Spread the Word of COD"?

OOPS!! Well, the earliest symbol of Christianity was the fish.

... what's the harm in thinstalling a freeware app for my own use? i'm harming neither the developers of the app nor the thinapp folks, because i'm not actually distributing anything. neither can demonstrate a financial loss that is a result of my actions. i am of course aware that the legality of ...

Simply, portable versions do not appear by magic; someone has to code them. In some cases, there are copyright or trademark issues if you use the original code and make changes (mozilla products). The original author, who generally knows the application best, doesn't always want the application to b...

ashghost, Sorry you didn't find the iconized addin for VirtuaWin. Windowspager looks quite good and I'm glad you found something that works for you. I'm posting the link to Iconized for any other people who might like to try VirtuaWin with a free floating pager. http://sourceforge.net/projects/iconi...