Although USB flash drives seem to have taken a backseat lately thanks to the proliferation of cloud storage services, these small devices, which now allow us to store up to a terabyte of information, remain very useful, especially if we need to run applications on different computers without having to download them, since we only need them for a short period of time. This is where portable applications come in. These types of applications allow us to run our most frequently used applications directly from a USB flash drive on any computer, regardless of whether they are already installed or not.
Currently, we can find a large number of portal applications online, created by the developers themselves. But if we're talking about applications from major developers, the number is very limited, if not practically nonexistent. However, we can also find portable applications online, which, obviously, haven't been created by the original developers , but rather by third parties to offer mobility to users who need certain applications daily and spend their time switching between computers.
To use these applications, simply run them directly from the USB drive; that's all . You don't need to install anything on the PC where you want to run them, nor modify any settings, Windows registry entries, or other registry files. These applications, when run, don't modify any system parameters because all the necessary information for their operation is stored on the USB drive. This type of application is ideal, especially if you're not an administrator of the PC you're using, since, generally, the ability to install applications on the system is limited.