Now, select the folder in your Dropbox where you want Portable Apps installed. Launch the portable apps installer and chose Suite Light, as I won’t be needing the suite, but feel free to use that one ( provided you have enough free space on your Dropbox). The setup file for the Portable apps suite of your choosing ( get it here),.If you need to know more about Dropbox, check out this very comprehensive groovyPost. So this brings me around to a groovy new way I’ve been using Portable apps for several months which work on all my systems.įirst of all, you’ll need a Dropbox account and ( obviously), the Dropbox software installed on all the computers you’ll be using. In the past I always kept my Portable Apps installed on a flash drive I would carry with me however I always seemed to misplace them or leave them at home by mistake, and as luck would have it, this normally happened when I needed them the most.
It allows me to have all the apps I need with me at all times ( including a Firefox with all the bookmarks, synced right up to my last browsing session).
Portable Apps is a suite of apps that can be run off a USB flash drive, without the need to install them get them here).įor me, I love Portable Apps! They are exactly what I need being that I’m always on the move jumping between several computers daily.