Portable apps has made me like my flashdrive 100 times more than ever.. It is so useful when you are working in a public computer.. Question: What is the most useful application on your flashdrive? Mines would have to be VLC, Utorrent, Frostwire, Peazip portable, Mozilla firefox, CCcleaner, google chrome. I don't really need Open office, but I want it in the drive anyways just incase other computers don't have microsoft office.. Reason I stated mozilla firefox and google chrome is that when you are using your flashdrive browser, the content and history are stored in your flashdrive rather than the public computer browser.. VERY VERY USEFUL.. Since I'm new to portable apps, what other application should I keep in my flashdrive? I think I listed all the common apps, but I'm not sure..
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I have pretty much everything officially released on my drive, but I am a pretty active member here and not your average user.
I'd just install whatever I need and like if I were you and delete them when you see that you hardly use them. Deleting/uninstalling is easy with portable Apps.
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I find that a basic image viewer/editor can be very useful from time to time for things like resizing or coverting images (to other formats). Something like XNView Portable is great for that. I also find Keepass indespensible for securely storing my sensitive username/password data.
If you chat on messaging networks then Pidgin or Miranda are a must. A PDF viewer like Sumatra or Foxit is also handy, because unlike say Apple Macs, Windows
doesn't have a default PDF viewer. It doesn't hurt to have CD burning software either like InfraRecorder because although that is built into Windows, it's pretty basic.
Like Simeon said use whatever is useful. Don't have apps just for the sake of having apps. For example, I do the occasional coding so Notepad++ Portable is useful for me, but it might not be for you. The great thing about Portable Apps is that you can try them and if you don't like them, simply delete them and there's nothing left behind... no messy cleanup.