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Yesthat works perfectly with the Ubuntu install image. Simply download the version you need and then create a bootable USB thumbdrive. If you're on windows, you can follow these instructions which uses the Pen Drive Linux's USB Installer to write the image to the drive.

Once you've done that you need to boot from your usb drive (usually hitting F8 or F9 at the BIOS stage) or you change the boot order in the BIOS itself. You'll then be presented with a menu where you can Install Ubuntu or Try Ubuntu without Installation. The latter does exactly what you want: It boots Ubuntu without touching your internal drives. The system will entirely be held in the computer's memory, might however feel slow due to the nature of USB drives.

The Ubuntu Live CD is just a normal Ubuntu ISO burned to a CD/DVD, once you start booting from CD you'll be prompt with some menu. One Option of this menu is try Ubuntu without installing so you can choose it and this will boot the Ubuntu Live CD so you can try Ubuntu as you like, but you should notice that every thing you do it will just wiped when you reboot unless you save your work to a storage media.

Another Option which you may be asking about is to make a bootable USB. I suppose now you are working in Windows so you can create the bootable USB. Read this that can explain in details what to do. Steps to create a live USB in Windows:

Portable-VirtualBox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a usb stick without separate installation. Installation instructions Download and run Portable-VirtualBox_v5.1.22-Starter_v6.4.10-Win_all.exe....

I was having a discussion on bookmarks in Word with a friend, and he suggested me to check out his implementation of a query in Word. Since I did not have Microsoft Word installed, I told him I don't have Word so I won't be able to test it.

VMWare ThinApp is what you are seeing. I've done some testing while it was still called Thinstall and then VMware bought it. It's nice because it allows you to use Office 2003 / Office 2007 / Office 2010 and many more applications like IE6, IE7, IE8 next to each other.

This even gets better. You can install NET, Java after the first snapshot and then application that uses NET or Java. And then use the application created with ThinApp on system that doesn't have NET or Java Installed.

Though my suggestion was originally denied ;), based on your observations I was probably correct after all: your friend must have had a copy of Microsoft Office which has been virtualized with VMware ThinApp.

First, I verified that a copy of the regular winword.exe and excel.exe would not work by themselves. I installed Office 2003 in a Windows XP VM, then copied them over to a different VM which had never had Office installed. Both applications failed to run.

We use a ThinApp-wrapped version of MATLAB at my university; it has to have a .dat file present with all of the program contents. Depending on the requirements of the application though, this may not be necessary, which appears to be the case with these office programs before.

Essentially, what ThinApp does is it virtualizes the entire directory structure and registry for the application. This allows for the application to be portable and to run without interfering with the system. ThinApp also supports network licensing, so if you have an application (like MATLAB in our case) that your organization has a finite number of licenses for, it can check in with the licensing server before launching the application, and only launch it if it successfully acquires a license.

That directory in %APPDATA% contains the folders which ThinApp virtualizes for the application. Anything that would normally be in Word's %APPDATA% folder, like personal settings, gets saved here instead. Because of this, no matter where you launch the executable from on your computer, the settings will be preserved on that machine. They do not get transfered with the packaged application itself however. This becomes relevant when trying to reset the settings for an application which is packed with ThinApp, as the usual method of deleting its folder in %APPDATA%\Program Name doesn't work - you have to find its virtualized folder.

It's not because the application is called WINWORD.EXE and the icon is the same that it is the exact same application that is shipped in Office. All Office applications have a digital signature. Right-click the winword.exe and excel.exe files and check if there is a Digital Signatures tab. You will notice those applications don't have a signature at all let alone one from Microsoft.

The applications you have are probably self-extracting executables, which contain modified files of Word 2003 so it will run without being installed. If you have 7-zip installed you can try to unpackage winword.exe and see for yourself.

Is this because you don't have admin rights to install apps? As of 1Password 6.4, it can be installed without having any admin rights. There will be a UAC dialog at the end of the setup but you can deny it and 1Password will still work. I'd suggest trying 1Password 6.4 and see if it works, you can find it here:

Technically, 1Password 6 doesn't need to be installed, you could copy its app folder to a USB stick and it can work without installing but you will need to edit its 1Password.json file to point to your 1Password data directory. See this post for more information.

It hasn't happened as far as I can tell. Will 1Password be made portable, i.e, be able to run from a USB Disk. If not, can the extension be made to run on a portable browser like Firefox Portable or Chrome Portable?

Hi @MikeT Thank you for your response.

I could install software without admin rights as well. But a colleague of mine, who installed some software on his company notebook, got a message after a while (maybe weeks or months) at systemstart, that there was found some not system compliant software on his system and he had to uninstall it.

A portable version of 1Password 6 would mean no integration at all to avoid all registry calls (we need this for the 1Password browser extensions) and at this point, you technically have this via the 1Password.com web app as it is self contained there.

My university here provides TeXnicCenter without compiler. I am unable to install the compiler due to permissions, I am forced to work in Windows environment during classes without traditional *ix tools such as pdflatex. I am now trying to find out a way to get my LaTeX -installations to something like USB-stick or other way without requiring permissions.

I would probably first try Portable MiKTeX. The website for distribution includes instructions on using it, and adds useful options to the context (right-click) menu for the drive you put it on. Configuring with a non-portable editor might be tricky, so I'd go with the TeXworks editor that is bundled with Portable MiKTeX.

My friend Markus found a clever way in Debian -based distros such as Ubuntu or Debian itself. Now most people wanting something like this have a *ix laptop and in that necessary installations for LaTex. This tip will only work if you have already the installation of LaTex on your computer so basic idea: you use your own installation and you download the files from your school/uni server. You can also use just $ scp -r [email protected]:workDir . but the next way is more visually-pleasing.

My new computer is working fine, however when I configured it I chose a 1TB hard drive not realizing that it won't be enough. One thing I like to do when I get a new PC is to create an extra partition on the hard drive to use for file storage and back-up purposes. When I looked to do that with this computer, a Dell XPS 8940 running Windows 11, I found that the various partitions already set up consume so much space that the drive only has 12MB of unpartitioned free space on it.

Obviously, there is nothing I can do with only 12mb of space. I will likely decide to replace the hard drive with a bigger one sometime in the near future. Only I have no idea how I am going to install the OS, default drivers, or any of the software that came pre-installed on the PC. The computer didn't ship with any disks whatsoever. No OS installation disk, no system resources disk, no installation disks for anything. What are my options?

Re: I will likely decide to replace the hard drive with a bigger one sometime in the near future. Only I have no idea how I am going to install the OS, default drivers, or any of the software that came pre-installed on the PC.

@Customizer I agree with @redxps630 . You need to install another hard drive for additional storage. Partitioning a hard drive will not give to additional space, it only divides up the space already you have.

Only I have no idea how I am going to install the OS, default drivers, or any of the software that came pre-installed on the PC. The computer didn't ship with any disks whatsoever. No OS installation disk, no system resources disk, no installation disks for anything. What are my options?

c. The XPS-8940 does not really require any special Dell drivers to initially install Windows-10/11 properly. You can just use the official (and perfect) Microsoft "Media Creation Tool" (normally to a USB flash-drive).

Finally, if you replace any old-school spinning-platter hard-drives, or want to add another drive, it should usually be with a Solid-State-Drive (SSD) ... either a flat-looking NVMe SSD or a 2.5inch SATA-3/600 SSD. SSDs are much faster and more dependable (as they have no moving parts).

To add to what @Tesla1856 said, if you install an M.2 SSD, you can clone the HDD onto the SSD, using imaging software like Macrium Reflect (free). That way you won't have to install drivers and apps again.

Once that's done, you have to boot the PC from the new SSD via the F12 menu and confirm everything is working properly and all your personal files are available. If you don't boot via F12, PC will always boot from the HDD. (I'd reboot from SSD via F12 several times to confirm proper function.)

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