Portable Apps

I recently found a new program that I have really enjoyed. It is more of an operating system than anything else. The cool part about it is that you run it off a flash drive. I downloaded it from PortableApps.com
So far I have five programs on it. I have Abiword, Audacity, Sumatra PDF Viewer, Mozilla Firefox, and Sudoku. They all run great. I am running Firefox off of my flash drive right now. It is running smoothly. I cannot detect any significant slowdown in the program. There might be a barely perceptible amount. I believe that it might just be the computer.
The programs that I downloaded are designed especially for the portable apps program. They are available for free on the website. They are portable editions. However, they do not act in a crappy and slow fashion like the title portable implies. The ones that I have tried seem to retain all of the main functions of the full program.
Being able to run your own programs on any computer is definitely a plus. You can save all of your links on your web browser. Then, you can have them available on whatever public computer you are using. You can use audacity to capture sound off the Internet or record yourself. Not all computers have this program. The school computers probably won't let you download it either. With Abiword you can make word documents on any computer.
The website claims that you won't leave a record of the programs that you used on the computer that you are using. I am not sure how to test this. Leave a comment if you know.

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