The scope of how to do that is far greater than this article. That’s not always possible, or easy, but it can be done. Take a read through our previous article, 12 Handy Tools to Keep on Your USB Stick to get a feel for how a portable app USB drive could serve you.īeyond that, there are ways that you can make a lot of regular desktop applications into portable apps. There are apps for office work, accounting, audio production, desktop publishing, graphic design, 3D design, web design, app development, encryption, systems administration, eBook management, torrent downloading, music players, file management, and games, games, and more games. Some of the apps whose names you’re likely to recognize include: Of course, there will be some overlap between the sites, but still, you would be hard pressed to not find an app for what you’d like to do. At the time of writing this, there were at least 10 legitimate sites for downloading portable apps from, many listing several hundred apps. Most of them are available for free, too. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of portable apps available to you. Great for someone who travels a lot and just needs a few simple apps on the road.We can’t say that all portable apps leave no footprint on the host, but what is left, if anything, is about as minimal as it can get. There are versions of FireFox, OpenOffice, GIMP (the paint program), and of course KeePass. Then no matter what machine you plug it into, all off the apps and settings go with you. The idea behind portable apps is you can place all of them on a USB thumb drive or external USB Hard drive. In case you are not familiar with Portable Apps, it’s a suite of tools that don’t require installation. It also has a version ( ) that integrates nicely with Portable Apps ( ). However, it also has a standalone no-install version which you can download and use, which is what I did. It even has a meter, which measures the strength of your password.īe warned I had some issues with the installer version of KeePass under Vista. It will generate a complex password for you, or you can enter your own. It has the same basic functionality that most password managers have, but laid out in such a manner that to me is easy to use. KeePass ( ) is a free, open source password manager. Today I finally found KeePass and am happy. I’ve looked at quite a few, but for whatever reason never seemed to find one that suited me.
After a long time searching, I finally found a password manager I like.
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