Guy Stuff at Guys Clubhouse

This is simple and I thought you guys might enjoy it. It should work for most any program but I can’t guarantee it. I also can’t remember where I learned this but I’ll try to so I can give credit where credit is due. Just follow this step by step. It’s really quite easy. You need two free tools.

• Winrar
• Universal Extractor

Just get the free trial of Winrar ( if you don’t already have it ) . Universal Extractor is free and can be found at www.legroom.net. So go ahead and install those and lets rock!!

a)  Find your favorite program.

b) Make a new file where you like, and name it. (ie “my File”).

c) Now right click on the setup file of the program you’d like to be portable, and pick “extract with uniextract to a subdirectory”.  Extract it into the file you just made.

d)  Open the new file you made ( “my file”), and find the .exe file that runs the app. You should see a bunch of files there. Highlight all these files. ( Note: if you only see 1  file, then repeat step (c) on this file. Now you should see several files. Highlight them all).

e) Right click and choose ” add to archive”. Name your archive and select “create SFX archive”. Choose “best” under the category “compression method”.

f) Click the advance tab. Click SFX options. Now type the name of your executable in “run after exraction” under the “setup program category”.

Almost done!

g) In the “Modes tab” click “unpack to temporary folder and hide all”.

h) In the “Update tab”  click  ”overwrite all files”. Click ok and that’s it.

You’ll now see a single self extracting file that is the .exe . You can copy this to your memory stick or external hard drive and use it anywhere. cool eh!

After hearing what sounded like world war 3 going on in the basement, I rushed downstairs to find a chipmunk playing a game of cat and mouse with our cat. So I joined in and managed to grab the speeding cat ( or Satan as I like to call her ) after a couple of minutes. The next job was to catch the stupid chipmunk.  Unbelievably, when we moved in here someone had left behind a squirrel trap, which I kept never knowing why. I almost sold it at our yard sale last year. It didn’t take long to do it’s job. I’m happy to report I had the little guy on his way, safe and sound the next day, Which Satan wasn’t to pleased about.

Living in a house that’s 110 years old has some challenges. One was the fact that the basement is fairly new and we didn’t have  proper access to  it. We just had a hatch. So, it was time to rectify the situation and not having a clue what I was doing, I just dug in and gave it my best shot. (continue reading…)