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Description:
This program is designed with ease of use and filesize in mind. It occupies
only some kilobytes of the valuable space on your USB stick.
It has some features which are very useful for a mobile office on you USB stick.
Special features:
* Applications could be organized into groups.
* Separators for better overview
* Paths to applications or home directories are stored relative to the location of 'uStart.exe'. '\' for the actual drive is also allowed.
* Environment variables within paths, applications or options are automatically replaced, e.g. '%windir%' becomes 'C:\windows'.
* When exiting uStart, the started applications can be optionally closed.
* After Start you see only an additional trayicon, nothing else.
* Occupies only 75k (uncompressed) on your drive.
* Support for applications, folders and other files that are opened through their associated applications.
* Applications/Folders/Files could be run/opened automatically on program start
Though I personally couldn't stand the lack of a simple Drag 'n Drop interface, this app would probably be great for true minimalists. Adding it now.
[EDIT] Andrew, how do I add the "mu" symbol like you did with uTorrent? I know how to use the charmap to do it normally, but is it different on the web?
How do you write µ?
If you're using English-International, or most other international IMEs, as your keyboard setting (but not EN-US), press AltGr M, or Ctrl Alt M. Alternatively, you can press Alt 0181 (on the numpad), which works on ALL IMEs and regions.
does it help?
Last edited by shaggystyle on Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:17 am, edited 1 time in total.
Andrew, how do I add the "mu" symbol like you did with uTorrent? I know how to use the charmap to do it normally, but is it different on the web?
I normally enter the HTML entity code directly eg. "µTorrent" becomes "& #181;Torrent". I use the excellent Unicode Characters to HTML Entities Converter to perform the conversion.
Very old topic update: µStart v1.6.0 released 2017-08-02 (no changelog).
This update happened notwithstanding the warning posted by the author (in German) at the homepage back in 2008-06-27 that "There won't be any further development for this project. I found [Aignes] Portable Start Menu that does just about anything I want."
According to the source file (included), µStart was developed with PureBasic v5.60; its GUI remains pretty much unchanged...
FTR, here's the content of µStart help/about dialog:
Spoiler!
uStart -- a small and easy usable application launcher for your USB stick
Description:
This program is designed with ease of use and filesize in mind. It occupies
only some kilobytes of the valuable space on your USB stick.
It has some features which are very useful for a mobile office on you USB stick.
Special features:
* Applications could be organized into groups.
* Separators for better overview
* Paths to applications or home directories are stored relative to the location
of 'uStart.exe'. '\' for the actual drive is also allowed.
* Environment variables within paths, applications or options are automatically
replaced, e.g. '%windir%' becomes 'C:\windows'.
* When exiting uStart, the started applications can be optionally closed.
* After Start you see only an additional trayicon, nothing else.
* Support for applications, folders and other files that are opened through their
associated applications.
* Applications/Folders/Files could be run/opened automatically on program start
Usage:
When left-clicking on the trayicon a popup menu containing the previously
defined applications. With clicking on the menuitem you start the application.
When right-clicking on the trayicon a different popup menu opens, where you
can set the applications to appear in the launching menu and configure them.
Additionally you can set the option whether marked applications that are started
should close on exit. Just click on it And you will see a marker, when activated.
Opened file types other than .exe are not closed automatically.
An additional option is the general activation of the automatic run of marked
applications. When this option is unchecked it is not possible to activate
automatic run when setting the aplications.