Portable App links
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Portable Application - A portable application (portable app), sometimes also called standalone, is a program designed to run on a compatible computer without being installed leaving the computer's configuration information intact. This type of application can be stored on any storage facility, including internal mass storage, a file share, cloud storage or external storage such as USB drives and floppy disks – storing its program files and any configuration information and data on the storage medium alone. If no configuration information is required a portable program can be run from read-only storage such as CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Such applications are commonly used on restricted machines due to the nature in which they do not interact or modify the system. They are considered safe since they run the same executable code and thus neither add nor retract any functionality of their installable counterparts. Some applications are available in both installable and portable versions. |
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Portable Apps - PortableApps.com is the world's most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any portable storage device (USB flash drive, memory card, portable hard drive, etc), cloud drive (DropBox, Google Drive, etc), or installed locally. |
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The Portable freeware collection I started this website in 2004 for a few reasons: |
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Independently reviewed and categorized Free Portable Software, Portable Freeware, and Open Source Portable Applications that can be stored and run directly from a USB Flash Drive, without the need to install the software to a PC. Bring your office applications, email, web browser, instant messaging software, games, graphical editors, media player, anti virus software, recovery tools, encryption utilities, P2P file sharing utilities and more with you. |
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Turn any application into plug-n-play software able to run from any USB device and even from cloud-drives |
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Hongkiat Technology Design Inspiration Since 2007, Hongkiat.com has been the go-to site for designers, bloggers, developers, techies and readers in search for content and resources to do with design, technology and inspiration. |
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Gizmo's Free Portable Applications This list provides a collection of portable apps from across Gizmo's Freeware and other sites. Portable freeware is an amazing development and is forcing software vendors to adjust their wasteful ways. |
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An entire application virtualized into a standalone EXE file. You can copy and execute it on any computer directly without installing it, no agent required. |