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.
>
>
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
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