Monday, May 26, 2014

Portable Apps - Use Software Without Installing

Hello reader as the popularity and the uses is increasing day by day that is why I am going to start publishing post about Portable software section in this site. From Today any post published regarding portable apps you will get it in the Software section of this site.

portable application

If you work with different software then you may have noticed that some softwares are available in portable version. As I know most of the software have portable versions. Generally manufacturer launch the installation version of a software but you can download the portable version of a software from several site. Portable software has some several advantages that the regular installation software. Details discussion is presented below.


What Is Portable Software: 

Portable is a familiar english word that means something which is movable, handy or easily transportable.  As an example I can say portable air cooler, tv or electronic device. portable software is something like that.

Normally to run a software you need to install it in your PC. And to carry a software with you will have to carry your PcC with you. But you can carry the portable software without carrying your PC. You can carry portable software with you through Pen drive, Flash drive, Portable hard drive or CD/DVD. You can use your Portable apps from the portable drive by simply connecting it to your PC.


Advantages Of Portable Software:
  • No need of Installation.
  • As it don't needed to install that is why portable software don't acquire your PC installation drive. Ans as a result your PC remains free and relax.
  • You can use your necessary software in any PC through pen drive or any portable drive.
  • If you lose your PC windows then you will not lose your Portable software.
  • As you are carrying your portable software like portable browser with you and that is why Saved Password, Bookmark or Browsing History is totally safe and secure. 
  • Portable software will never mess up in your system registry.

How To Get Portable Software: There are two way to get Portable Software
  1. By Downloading Portable Software and
  2. By Creating Portable Software.

Downloading Portable Software: There are only a few manufacturers who launch portable version of a software beside installation version. Search whether the portable version of the software is available or not at the time of downloading it.
If the official portable version is not available then there are several sites from which you can download portable software. But I will suggest you to get portable software from the below site. I use Chrome portable which I have downloaded from below site.  Click the below Image.

portable apps website

This is the most popular site for downloading portable software. It offer portable version of the software for free. Portable Apps has a collection of thousands of portable software. In this site you will get almost all the popular software's portable version. So, you can download your necessary portable software from here.

Creating Portable Software: You can also create the portable version of a software. Creating portable software is a difficult task. You can create the portable version of a software from installed software. Follow the below steps.
  1. First Install a software in your PC from .exe file.
  2. Then go to the Program File and find the installed software.
  3. Now Copy the whole Installation Folder and Save it in the different drive. Don't save it in the drive where your PC windows is installed.
  4. At the end Uninstall the software from your PC.
  5. Now to Run the software Double click on .exe file, you will find .exe file from the portable software folder which you have saved in the Step-3. [Example: Chrome.exe, Opera.exe etc]

You can create portable version of almost all the software using the above method. Beside the above method there are several software available through which you can create portable software.

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