How I Organise my PC for Best Performance, Reliability and Ease of Use – Part 9 of a series of tips on good practices for managing a personal computer. Portable applications are the way to go for a faster and safer PC setup. Portable means: 1. it can be moved easily from one PC to another 2. It is logically portable in the software sense as it is not installed as part of the operating system. So no extra registry entries and no running processes after the application is closed. PC slowdown and conflicts are avoided no matter how many portable applications you choose to have. Look at my favorite examples of portable utilities.