Portable applications?

[holy god of nil]

I want to by a portable hard-drive to lug around files, however is it possible to use applications from the disk which are not installed on the computer? i presume the only way is to install an OS and boot from the portable disk, but am i wrong?

[mike_w]

The only one I know of is Portable Firefox: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

[ajbrun]

There's loads, but they can be hard to find.

The ones that I know of are:
* Firefox
* Thunderbird
* Winamp
* Filezilla

[smtkr]

It depends on the application (there are plenty that run stand-alone and don't need to reference system files, registry, etc.).

[holy god of nil]

I was just about to say winamp portable on my disk would be cool because i could take my songs round with me ut then i remembered ipods were invented a few years ago.

[Workaholic]

By the way, CD creation tools such as Nero and Easy CD creator add a music player onto the compilation CD whenever you create a MP3 CD. This is a standalone program and would do the trick.