Portable Apps – a PC In Your Vest-Pocket

You can comfortably walk around with your “Vest-Pocket PC”. No matter the PC in front of you … Just plug in a USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device and launch your own apps. All that without leaving any personal data behind!

You can carry your: antivirus, cleaning and tweaking tools, backup utilities, web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, audio player, games, password manager, etc..

… And that comes very handy when when visiting and helping peoples having PC troubleshooting … Or when needing to show your business (or whatever) presentation comfortably having the required software ready to go … Or by having fast access at your browser’s bookmarks, bank account settings and other important passwords … And so on and so far…

There are many freewares producers that offers already-made (light) portable version for downloading directly on their official site. … And for the rest, you can try yourself to make them portable, or get them from specialized sites.

The principle and advantages are so obvious that we’ll just settle for guiding you to the best places to find those apps

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Our preferred is The Portable Freeware Collection - maybe the largest collection of light freewares.

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This site is “the” reference in this domain. Everything is there, always up to date; downloads are secured and work great. Go and take what you need!
.Don’t forget to checkout the Forum (see image) where you can find or ask everything about portable apps.
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For lazy or green users (but not only) PortableApps.com propose a very convenient way to get light apps. There are 3 bundled versions, with a nice-looking integrated menu:

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- Platform: 0.9MB (download), 1.2MB (installed)

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- Suite Light: 35MB (download), ~100MB (installed)

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- Suite Standard: 113MB (download), ~350MB (installed) No additional software is required.

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You just download them and run the portable installer.

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Here is an example of portable apps that can be useful when your friends/family are having problems with their computer : SimpleHelp.net 17 Portable Apps to Help Troubleshoot PC’s .

And we’ll finish by underlining that Portable Apps domain seems to be a freewares exclusive “business”.

… Another consequence of “software for free” philosophy, which generously allows free access to everyone.

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