How to run portable apps from USB flash drives
4:49 AM // 0 comments // Sajib Barua // Category: USB //Life becomes a lot simpler when you can travel light with your little netbook or notebook and a USB flash drive, which can literally carry your entire digital world. The PortableApps.com Suite allows you to run applications directly from your USB flash drive, without the need for installation. Here's what this suite has to offer.
The PortableApps.com Suite offers a collection of portable apps, which are preconfigured to work from portable devices such as USB flash drives. The suite includes portable versions of Mozilla Firefox for web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird for email client, office suite, Mozilla Sunbird for calendar/scheduler, Pidgin for instant messaging, Clamwin for antivirus, CoolPlayer for audio player, Sudoku game, KeePass Password Safe for password manager, Sumatra PDF for PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu.
You can install the PortableApps.com Suite and Platform from its homepage here http://portableapps.com/
Clicking the download button gives you the option of installing only the platform or one of the two suites, Suite Light and Suite Standard.
Suite Light replaces OpenOffice with AbiWord Portable. Suite Light can be installed on a 256MB+ devices and Suite Standard requires 512MB+ devices. You can download a suite of your choice. You need only to add the apps of your choice.
Now you can simply plug in your USB flash drive to launch the apps when you need to, and unplug it when you are through. It's that simple.
You can use the apps and delete those you don't need.
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