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From: Rex2010 on 23 Jul 2010 04:22 Sorry, Guys. I did not make it clear. So what I want is to put all my daily used apps into a USB drive or iPod. Then I can run them off my USB drive or iPod from computer to computer. BTW it will mainly run on Windows PCs. I had considered to just use PortableApps.com. there are a lot portable apps available. But a lot of apps I need, MS office, Plants Vs Zombies for instance, are not portably available. So this is why I am looking for help here. :p
From: Randem on 23 Jul 2010 20:32 You cannot do that, Manufacturers want you to purchase one app for each PC. It would most likely violate licensing agreements... -- The Top Script Generator for Jordan Russell's Inno Setup - http://www.randem.com/innoscript.html Free Utilities and Code - http://www.randem.com/freesoftutil.html "Rex2010" <Rex2010.4ejx2p(a)no.email.invalid> wrote in message news:Rex2010.4ejx2p(a)no.email.invalid... > > Sorry, Guys. I did not make it clear. > > So what I want is to put all my daily used apps into a USB drive or > iPod. Then I can run them off my USB drive or iPod from computer to > computer. > > BTW it will mainly run on Windows PCs. > > I had considered to just use PortableApps.com. there are a lot portable > apps available. But a lot of apps I need, MS office, Plants Vs Zombies > for instance, are not portably available. > > So this is why I am looking for help here. :p > >
From: C.Joseph Drayton on 23 Jul 2010 23:33
On 7/23/2010 2:22 AM, Rex2010 wrote: > Sorry, Guys. I did not make it clear. > > So what I want is to put all my daily used apps into a USB drive or > iPod. Then I can run them off my USB drive or iPod from computer to > computer. > > BTW it will mainly run on Windows PCs. > > I had considered to just use PortableApps.com. there are a lot portable > apps available. But a lot of apps I need, MS office, Plants Vs Zombies > for instance, are not portably available. > > So this is why I am looking for help here. :p > > If speed is not an issue, then you could use portable VirtualBox (I wouldn't recommend it on a thumbdrive but it does work very well on an external hard disk). I use portable Oracle VirtualBox 3.2 with a 16GB VHD and I have access to all of my programming tools that I couldn't make portable. Just a BTW, most people know that registry entries are a major cause for an app not being portable. What some people don't take into consideration is that those registry entries of point to 'common files' that are used by a a particular run-time package or created by some software producers. c;\Program Files\Common Files Folders: 742 Files: 2,691 Size: 354MB There are apps that have dependencies on the files found in that series of folders. So in addition to changing the registry entries you would need to move those dependencies onto the thumbdrive also. Since dependencies can be multi-level, the number of files you made need to move from the 'common files' folder could be quite large. Sincerely, C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T CSD Computer Services Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/ E-mail: c.joseph(a)csdcs.site90.net |