Portable Apps

[odims_sphere]

At work we are unable to use any kind of messenger software, mainly because it's not installed and we can't do it, so my Brother made me a thumb drive where we can run portable applications, basicly allowing me to beat the system. I'm wondering if anyone has used something like this and how stable they are.

[Rayne]

I'm not sure I understand the question ....

Thumb drives are awesome, I have a few ... as for running applications off of them, it works as long as it's big enough to hold the application. Until you take it around something magnetic, not realizing it and have to reinstall the program on the thumb drive.

[odims_sphere]

I'm not sure I understand the question ....

Thumb drives are awesome, I have a few ... as for running applications off of them, it works as long as it's big enough to hold the application. Until you take it around something magnetic, not realizing it and have to reinstall the program on the thumb drive.

I'm running programs such as AIM from the thumbdrive that are not installed on the main harddrive here at work. It uses a program called Portable apps, which can run mulitple applications from an external storage device. For example it has a version of fire fox that runs off the thumb drive and you can keep all your links and favorites stored so that they'll work in any computer.

[prettystar1sky]

I have used a 1 GIG flash drive to hold my firefox and aim express or whatever to use at my previous job also.

I just had to be really careful to make sure it was taken home with me everyday otherwise someone would've tried to have me fired for using something to beat all the web blocks at work. It doesnt hurt anything. Just as long that there's enough space available to hold the apps on that flash drive.

At my current job we have free wireless internet available. I'm hoping soon I'll get a new laptop with wireless capabilities and use that instead. The work computers we're on only has the snail speed internet. Boo