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 The way Windows installs applications, however, is an out-of-date mess, adding local dependencies and unnecessary cruft to your system.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 ...

You can save your project in different formats, including PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and PDF. PicPick is free for personal use. You can download its portable version from ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...