Portable Software and Applications

Traditionally, we like to “install” software applications onto our computer. This is indeed still the way for most people who are not aware now of the existence of “portable applications”.

The idea of portable applications has been around for a long time, but its only recently started to gain popularity for a lot of computer users.

What are portable applications, you may ask, and why should I care?

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Vista Network and Sharing Center slow? Vista giving you a Server Execution Failed? Possible Fix!

Windows Vista

Probably a common error/problem encountered in Windows Vista, another one of those niggly problems that is enough to make users annoyed but yet not significant enough to change to another OS altogether…

Well, here’s the possible fix which worked for me on Windows Vista Ultimate SP1:

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