run any app off a USB drive?

[wonkotheinsane]

Hey, guys, do you have the experience of running your daily used apps off a USB drive?
Which is I am now trying to do. But I find that only portable apps can be run like that.
while some apps like MS office are not portably available. How can I do that?

 

[donavannj]

MS Office will not run off of a USB drive because of how it is licensed. The only plausible way you could do it is if you had a volume license copy, but those cost a small fortune and even then it's iffy. Same with other applications. They want you to pay for a license for each computer you own.

 

[Dawn]

You have to pretty much settle for the portable apps suite, since they mod programs specifically for this purpose. Their alternative to Office is OpenOffice which is just as good.

https://portableapps.com/

 

[mr. ck]

Portable Ms Office? Google Docs :)
Or get yourself a pendrive based Linux if you can handle it... It's far more personalised.

There used to be a software: MojoPac? for WinXP... It makes your windows profile portable.

Apart from that, just check out portable apps like how Yellow said :P

 

[wonkotheinsane]

Just stumbled upon Prayaya. I installed prayaya on my USB drive and then installed MS Office 2003 suite on prayaya. It seems working very well off my USB drive.

 

[wonkotheinsane]

<P>Just found Prayaya on giveawayoftheday. Got it free. lol..</P>

 

[hitech]

You can find the portable version of office from google. I have found that.

 

[twocows]

Problem was already fixed, I'm closing this