How Do You Install Portable Apps, (What Portable Apps Are) And Six Top Apps Youll Want?
The creation of the USB drive (aka, Flash or Thumb drive) was a wonderful thing. It made it easy to carry, backup or transfer several megabytes of data from one computer to another, through a USB connection, which was already included on most PCs. As the size of the drive’s capacity increased from megabytes to gigabytes, users looked at other uses besides file storage. Then came the idea of running applications that could be used almost anywhere-and the portable application (or app) was born. The portable app is actually an old idea recycled. When the first PCs came out, they first ran programs from disks. When hard drives came along, applications were not installed as they are today, they just more or less unzipped to a folder. To remove the application, you just deleted the folder. That’s the same way portable apps work today. You’ll want a USB drive of at least two gigabytes, more is better because you’ll not only be installing apps, but adding your files as well. Most applications
