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PC Pocket Portability Packs a Punch (carry your PC desktop in a thumb drive)

I came across this interesting program the other day while browsing the downloads section of Kim Komando’s website.  It actually enables you to have a customized virtual desktop installed on a thumb drive (it’ll work on other USB devises also).  It’s called MojoPac.

1.  What does it do?

You may be asking if there would be a point to such a thing.  Well, there are several points, some having to do with convenience and some having to do with safety and security.

With this virtual desktop, you can use programs you’ve installed, shortcuts and browser settings that you enjoy, and even have documents and downloads that you began that you can resume.  In other words, instead of toting around your laptop, you can carry your USB device and plug it into any PC or laptop (running Windows XP) and pop your very own desktop up to continue whatever it is that you do!  It’s almost like having 2 computers, the one you sat in front of and your own desktop.  Convenient, right?

A nice thing about it is that you aren’t leaving any footprint (browser history, downloads, unfinished docs, etc.) on the “host” PC!  There’s no more worries about whether or not you logged off your email account on that public computer because everything you did is in your pocket NOT on the public PC!  Also, you don’t have to worry about downloading, leaving browsing history, or installing programs on someone else’s computer because you can contain it all on the USB device!  That’s security!

2. How does it work?

Well, head over to MojoPac.com and hit up the introduction video.

After the video ends, check out the download page.  You’ll find the system requirements (the device needs to be USB 2.0, has to have 32MBs for the installation plus space for whatever programs you want to install, and the host PC must have Windows XP).  I used a USB 2.0 thumb drive with 3-400 MBs of free space and I installed it using my Vista laptop.  It could not run on my Vista laptop but I installed it and then ran it on another computer with XP and it worked fine.

Read through the instructions, they should help you through the installation and running it.  Once running, there is a sort of task bar at the top of the screen.  The button in the middle allows you to switch between the host PC’s desktop and the MojoPack Desktop.

Once I had the MojoPack Desktop running, I of course installed Firefox on there so I could use it on whatever computer I wanted to.  I am looking forward to testing it on a larger USB drive and installing any programs I use constantly.

If you find yourself working on many different computers and are sick of leaving your settings and files behind, you should try MojoPac.  If you are sick of clearing your browsing history on public computers, you should try MojoPac.  All you need is a USB thumb drive.

Let me know what your thoughts are on this kind of portable computing.  Is this something you can find some need for?  Have you tried anything like MojoPac before?  Let me know!