{"id":25537,"date":"2011-11-04T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=25537"},"modified":"2011-11-04T07:28:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:28:41","slug":"daves-computer-tips-put-your-pc-in-your-pocket-carry-it-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/daves-computer-tips-put-your-pc-in-your-pocket-carry-it-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave&#8217;s Computer Tips: Put your PC in your pocket &#038; carry it anywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110628savestips.jpg\" alt=\"daves computer tips\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p>by Mike Conroy in Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n<p>Last week I made mere mention of Portable Applications. Since then I have spent some time looking at the real deal. Looks like it is time to review some of the freeware offerings. Easy to complicated, there are many menu suites available today that integrate the applications you wish to carry with you on-the-go. In every case I have found that 4Gig can prove to be comfortable. 8Gig may be optimal, in fact you might have room for 2 separate installations.<\/p>\n<p>Portable Applications\u2026<\/p>\n<li><strong>1)<\/strong> do not require installation<\/li>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<li><strong>2)<\/strong> can be executed from any USB flash drive, and from any PC hard disk drive (internal or external)<\/li>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<li><strong>3)<\/strong> leaves no traces of its use in the Windows applications registry or any other user folder in the host PC hard drive<\/li>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<li><strong>4)<\/strong> does not conflict with the programs installed in the host PC hard drive (for example, X-Firefox executed from a USB flash drive does not modify (or conflict with) the counterpart Firefox program installed on the host PC)<\/li>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davescomputertips.com\/2011\/10\/anyone-for-a-computer-on-a-stick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>This excerpt is shared with permission from davescomputertips.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110628savestips.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"davescomputertips.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18914\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using portable apps you can take your programs anywhere without worrying about security or using an unfamiliar program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-25537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daves-computer-tips","tag-daves-computer-tips-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dave&#039;s Computer Tips: Put your PC in your pocket &amp; 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