Last week we began a discussion of U3, an emerging standard for controlling and managing applications stored on a USB, flash or thumb drive. This is a very cool idea that creates portable programs – ...

If you want to set portable apps as default apps on Windows 11/10, you need to register them first. PORTABLE Registrator is one of the best apps that helps you register portable apps on Windows 11 and ...

Last week we began a discussion of U3, an emerging standard for controlling and managing applications stored on a USB, flash or thumb drive. This is a very cool idea that creates portable programs – ...

If you spend a lot of time on the road or interacting with different PCs, portable applications are really handy. You might already carry a small assortment of ...

Windows is great. The way Windows installs applications, however, is an out-of-date mess, adding local dependencies and unnecessary cruft to your system. In this day and age, there's no reason to ...

Stump the PC Club is a tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which started in 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. Q.: I’ve recently read an article that ...

Lyman E Bertsch needs to run an application on a relative’s computer. Installing the program isn’t an option. Can Lyman run the program off a flash drive? Probably not. But you may be able to find ...

kckrug1994 asked the Answer Line Forum if a game or application would will work if installed onto an external drive. It would probably work in most cases, but expect problems. Obviously the ...