On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 11:29:28 UTC, Martin Brown wrote:
On 22/11/2016 15:25, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
tabbypurr wrote:

Go on then. You are in the OP's position. Which programme you have
currently could and would you just copy from the old HD to the new?

Lol. Newsgroups eh. GIYF. The term 'portable' is often applied, often
not.

Thanks for not answering the question.

I personally can't think of any.

There are a fair number of simple portable utilities that can be freely
copied between machines and will work OK from a USB stick without being
installed (eg CPUZ) but these days almost everything serious wants to be
installed and will react badly if it doesn't find the right keys in the
registry to indicate that you have actually paid for it.

Payware has its place for the odd app for some people, but for nearly all apps now you're better off with freeware. Payware is in most cases just pointless.


NT