I use a mp3 player with a 40gb hd (Toshiba Gigabeat) for 8 months now.
I use it every day at work and at home.
I load it with all the portable applications of this site and some more.
I was wondering if it would be possible to have the choice to install the full version of a program or the light version (the one you provide actually).
As hard drive on usb are fast and don't have problem of space or limit of read write cycle , it would be good to have this choice and also to have the settings like a standard install ( example : for firefox, do not disable the cache .....).
I hope one day I can put all the program I used on my player drive so no more computer to transport 
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The alterations are just in Tools - Options in Firefox, for instance. The changes are public... and anyone that downloads can very easily change them. All the apps are like that in terms of config settings.
As far as the compressed apps (like the fact that OpenOffice.org Portable is about 30% smaller than OpenOffice.org due to UPX compression)... this helps you, too... as USB and/or drive speed is still a limiting factor in launch times. Toshiba doesn't give specs, so you probably have a 4200rpm drive (or slower) in there without much cache... which is much slower than a desktop hard drive.
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