Having a portable app lets you carry your own apps with your own program settings to any computer. Personalized Settings: Everyone has their own program settings of the apps they use. Especially when you want to use borrowed or public computers that don’t have the specific app you want. Portability: As the name suggests, having the app(s) of your choice everywhere you go in a thumb drive is very satisfying and convenient.

There are advantages of having portable apps that you can carry around and use on different computers instead of having to install apps on different computers that don’t have the apps you want to use. Even though portable apps can be downloaded and used on the computer itself, their main purpose is to be put on a flash drive or external hard drive and be carried around. If you move the folder, the application still works. The files that run the application reside in a single folder.

If it allows you to save settings, they are in files inside the same folder. To use a portable app, you download it as a ZIP file, extract the ZIP to a folder, then run the executable file for the application. That means all your app data and everything you do with the app is saved onto the flash drive. That means you can throw a portable app on a flash drive and carry it around and use it on multiple computers without installing. What is a Portable App?Ī portable app is an app that does not need installation to work on a computer. But I’m trying not to bore you with that nerdy jargon and try to put it as simply as possible. What makes an app portable or ‘not portable’ is in how it’s installed and how the installations files are handled and distributed during installation. From portable computers, to portable telephones and now portable applications?

The term portable apps is exciting mainly because it has ‘portable’ in it.

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