Portable Applications are the softwares that can be run directly from a portable device without requiring installation. These are quite useful if you travel a lot and need your softwares with you all the time. You can keep portable versions of your favorite softwares all the time with you on a USB drive and they can be run from any computer with a USB port.

Moreover, the greatest benefit of using portable applications is that none of the settings, history, data is kept on the host computer as everything is stored on the portable device.

We have compiled a list of 10 essential portable applications for your USB drive that will work on any Windows system.

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An unsuccessful uninstall of a software from your computer can hamper your registry’s fine working. Whenever a software is uninstalled it could happen many times that all its entries are not deleted from Windows registry. These entries behave as malicious entries and confuse the OS, thus degrading OS performance. Here is a windows utility that cleans the remaining clutter from your Win registry to ensure its proper working.

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Some users find it very cool to experience Vista running on their XP systems. Some features like showing Vista like drive icons on XP make users feel very good. Another nifty Windows utility tweaks your XP Start Menu to look like Vista’s.

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Ever thought of increasing your Vista powered PC’s primary memory without adding RAM chips to it? Sounds weird, but it’s possible to increase RAM of a Vista powered PC with the help of USB key drive!!

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Besides Keyboard Shortcuts, using Run dialog box(windows+R) in windows to start applications/windows utilities is another great way to increase productivity by saving time. You might be familiar with commands like regedit, gpedit.msc, explorer but here we list down 27 applications you might not have thought could be started from Run Dialog box.

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Even after the launch of Windows Vista,  Windows XP is still very popular Operating System worldwide. There are probably hundreds of tips and tricks for Windows XP but most of them have nothing to do with a common user. So I have listed 11 tips which can prove to be extremely beneficial for users.

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There are many Windows processes that keep running in the background, consume up the RAM thus making RAM unavailable for newer processes. The result is that your PC has to perform swapping in order to make RAM available for new application programs to run. This is the case when your RAM is around 512MB. A simple setting can help your computer avoid this. Simply avoid those processes that start up when Windows starts. One of those is the Windows Messenger, which is switched on by default whether you use it or not.

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Since the launch of Opera 9.5, I was looking for its portable version just like the Portable Firefox 3 and here is the Portable version of Opera 9.51 - Operator 3.1. It is a mere 7 mb zipped download which you can extract to Pen drive and browse the web privately anywhere keeping your bookmarks and history always with you.

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We all have uploaded, e-mailed hundreds of images in the form of attachments. In order to save bandwidth and avoid crossing maximum attachment size in emails, most of use image compression softwares. No doubt these softwares do well in compression process but the only problem with them is that we need to provide the path of image manually. Softwares that do this automatically can br real time savers.

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Isn’t it something like the right handers are always at an unfair advantage over the left handers?? It has been observed that almost all the gadgets and PC peripherals are designed to suit a right hander. All the new gadgets, including the most commonly used peripheral devices like keyboard and mouse, are designed to suit right handers. This post is all about bettering the Windows’ experience for the left handers. Learn how to tweak windows to suit you better( if you are a left hander).

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