Right now I don`t travel. I just use them on my own computer. What`s the point?
I never knowed the sense of an "installation" for apps like firefox, thunderbird... Is it really necessary? NO!
The adventages of portable software are obvious:
- No registery entrys.
- If I want to travel at some day I can compress and copy my software very fast and do that.
- I have a better overview what the program is doing. All folders have a good overview and it`s not unsorted no files in other dirs. All personal settings and files are stored.
- If I need to format and reinstall my system I can just continue using my apps without any problems. (I have multiple partitions and wihout portable software I had some troube before finding my personal settings folder and so on.)
- Pretty easy to uninstall (just delete).
Disadventages:
- Some known isses... But most are due the nature of usb sticks and most of them won`t happen if I execute the programms from my harddisk. I have all options avalible... I try to use only portable software and didn`t feel mad because someone did not work.
- Maybe it`s more hard to update them or the update will be out a bit later then updates for standard unportable version. (for firefox and thunderbird it was no problem.)
It`s also very nice that such websites like this exists. But I don`t know why not all software developers publish their software as portable by standard. Every friend I told about this was convinced aswell very fast.
Much text, in short word thank you for this website it like it very much and please continue like you do right now. 
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Yup, me too, Portable = easy. Like you, I've got a multi-partition system, and in my case, is even multibootable (Win 98SE/Win 2K, Win XP). Unlike you, though, I use 'em on other PCs - not for travel, per se, but when working on a PC at work (right now I'm browsing the web under bootable Live Knoppix CD, cuz I don't yet have an account on this workplace PC), or else on my sister's PC (she has Hi-speed internet, I only have dialup, so I Bogart her PC for large downloads, such as, well...Live Linux ISO images!)... I've placed portable Opera and Flashget on her PC, so I can do my thing without the risk of screwing up her system settings.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
"I've placed portable Opera" thanks for saying that, did a search found a page on how to do it, now i have portable opera to. yay
back to the thread, i just use it at uni (the uni only has IE6) or if im visiting people its handing to have such programs (open office, anti virus, decent IM client, etc etc) and then i dont have to install anything onto their computer
~CW~
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IE is just so incredibly................LAME, and dumber'n a doorknob to boot.
Only reason to keep it around is that some MS proggies depend on its existence - but fortunately, no necessarily its USEage.
(That, and the fact that even now, SOME websites just insist on it to load.)
I have it labeled on my startmenu "IE - if you MUST..."
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
removed it from my start menu, the only way I can launch it is by browsing through my drive or in Firefox, right-click View This Page in IE
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Ryan McCue
Person 1: Oh my god. You will never believe what just happened.
Person 2: What?
Person 1: I can't remember, I've forgotten.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Personally, I just got fed-up with the amount of time I lost each time I got a new machine or when I had to rebuild the machine.
Now I can be up and running again within a few hours (including windows updates), rather than days.
Also backups are much more simplified. I simply have two USB HDD's that I keep in synch and seperated.
Now if other app developers would just catch on and only launch portable apps, that would be ideal...
Thanks John (and others) for making this possible.
Regards
Paul
after changing it's tooltip to The Worst Browser that ever existed. After all I need a good laugh.