The VMWare ThinApp, Thinstall old, is one of the most powerful tools of virtualization desktop programs, to turn them into portable versions, but it has a price.
The Cameyo is able to turn many software programs for Windows apps in portable and can capture both installed on your computer, as the packages directly on the site. It also has a manual editing tool for developers who want to create their own portable applications. Cameyo is free for personal use but requires a fee for use by companies. There are some options for creating or using portable apps. Here are three programs to create the portable applications, and a complete suite that already has a series of them ready to be loaded on the pendrive or your memory card. On the other hand, free and/or open source applications such as browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, etc), image editors (GIMP, Irfanview, etc.), cleaning apps such as CCleaner, office suites such as OpenOffice, such as Skype, audio editors such as Audacity, free versions of antivirus and firewalls, and utilities such as 7-Zip, among others, can be used in compact versions with no problems. The problem is that the portable versions of these apps are considered pirated software, since they unlock all functions of the same, without the need of payment or go through a trial period. You can turn a premium app installed on your computer into a portable one, but only for your own use. Several applications and programs for Windows have portable, free and paid versions, and even some games. As a good part of the portable applications are made available by the community, and not by the developers themselves, there are compact versions of programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Sony Vegas, Microsoft Office and After Effects, as well as the Counter-Strike game. What apps and programs have portable versions? Portable apps are a great alternative for those who need to have the programs they use most often by hand and with their saved preferences, even if they do not have installation permissions on other computers (license per device). Some programs have tools that allow the installation of portable versions, but the vast majority are created by the community, making changes in the official installer. So you can take them wherever you want – portable.