With a usb pen drive you can leave your laptop or desktop behind. All you need is someone else's to piggy back on. 
The pen drive runs its own application menu from which you choose the programmes you want to run. These programmes don't exist on the host computer, or if they do are unaffected by the "parasite"! Great things to have on your pen drive include the full suite of Open Office, a web page editor and ftp (Kompozer), a pop email client to download all your messages (Thunderbird), and a web browser with all your bookmarks/favourites (Firefox). The list is actually endless. You have the choice of either aggregating them with a menu based programme or just having them as standalone programmes.
The pen drive runs its own application menu from which you choose the programmes you want to run. These programmes don't exist on the host computer, or if they do are unaffected by the "parasite"! Great things to have on your pen drive include the full suite of Open Office, a web page editor and ftp (Kompozer), a pop email client to download all your messages (Thunderbird), and a web browser with all your bookmarks/favourites (Firefox). The list is actually endless. You have the choice of either aggregating them with a menu based programme or just having them as standalone programmes.PortableApps is a good freeware place to start http://portableapps.com/suite
But there are alternatives like www.pegtop.net/start
There is also a very good commercial variation which ties in more directly with Windows and lets you run windows programmes from you portable drive. http://www.ceedo.com/ Not all windows applications will run this way but a good number do. It also lets you piggy back on to other programmes such as outlook express and Office. There is a Mac way of doing it too if you are that way inclined.
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