You are more or less correct. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away it was my plan to have a thumb drive or portable hard drive full of useful stuff to help me maintain the various family computers (2 laptops and 2 desktops). Once I found how many portable apps are out there I got to thinking they would be nice to reduce the clutter in the registry and minimize background "features" consuming resources. Now the maintenance needs are not as severe as they used to be (or I'm getting better at preventing them and teaching prevention) and my focus is now mostly on portable productivity apps. That said, a bootable portable harddrive with diagnostic, troubleshooting, backup, cleanup, optimize and other utilities on it would still be useful. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:02 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Slipstreaming and cloning WAS: Re: Email Clients . . . 2 at once? > Don, > I forgot to mention that it appears we're working on opposite > sides of > the same coin, so to speak. My interest is only in those utilities > and > functions I can use during tech calls to clients homes. As such, I > have > absolutely zero use for items such as portable spreadsheets, email > clients, > multimedia convertors, etc.. On the other hand, you're probably > looking for > a lot of that stuff and tossing out the more intense system & > networking > utilities you're finding, as they are of little use on a single > system. > lol > > Peace, > Gman > > "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------