Run Apps Off A Usb Drive?

[wonkotheinsane]

Hey, guys, do you have the experience of running your daily used apps off a USB drive?

Which is I am now trying to do. But I find that only portable apps can be run like that.

while some apps like MS office are not portably available. How can I do that?

[bozodos]

hahaha wtf are you trying to do that for!?

[elysium]

This is possible with VMware's Thin App. Basically it allows to you create a portable version of any application you want to. Start off with a clean windows build, run Thin App and it pretty much records the install process and packages it up into a standalone exe (it has sub folders with other required files).

But of course this comes with a price - and possibly only available in a bundle with other VM software/licensing...

[33driver]

http://portableapps.com/ is your friend

I work in IT, use it all the time.

VM ThinApp is good, but is really an enterprise solution that costs the world (we use it), AppV from MS is another, but again, enterprise solution.

[wonkotheinsane]

Just stumbled upon Prayaya. I installed prayaya on my USB drive and then installed MS Office 2003 suite on prayaya. It seems working very well off my USB drive.

[mad082]

hmmm, joins yesterday to ask a question in the computer section, then his second post is saying he found a solution and a link to the app. smells spammy to me

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

LOL... like anyone would like to run programs off USB anyway.. wasted some time with that.. The guys who would already know the programs..

[bozodos]

well you'd do something like that if you didn't have installing privleges on a workstation and you wanted to run unsanctioned apps, god only knows how many people do that here aaah.

[wonkotheinsane]

well you'd do something like that if you didn't have installing privleges on a workstation and you wanted to run unsanctioned apps, god only knows how many people do that here aaah.

You are right, and it works for me.

Edited September 10, 2010 by wonkotheinsane

[bozodos]

yeah, thats why we have Faronics Insight, so that smart flamin mongrels can't do that, or use proxies to youtube etc lol

[skyisdahlimit]

used to run portable firefox and winamp when i used to go to uni,

portable firefox had all my bookmarks and stuff it so it was quite handy

[wonkotheinsane]

Just found Prayaya on giveawayoftheday. Got it free. lol..

[Baruna]

I play low mb games when I am at work. Stuff like Counterstrike or starcraft on my usb LOL.

Just to kill time =)

[wonkotheinsane]

Just found Prayaya on giveawayoftheday. Got it free. lol..

[bozodos]

im getting a sneaking suspicion there's some spam around here...

[wonkotheinsane]

Why, you can get it free !　For someone loving it, it is a chance to get it without dollars !

Edited September 17, 2010 by wonkotheinsane

[bozodos]

I'd use the VMware one if I NEEDED to use something like that.

[R31Nismoid]

im getting a sneaking suspicion there's some spam around here...

lol so am i

spam bot banned

the fkers be getting smarter... Gonna have to up the ante

[bozodos]

if that was completely a bot without human intervention, then Skynet IS inevitable!

[R31Nismoid]

lol yes very true