I decided to start with Microsoft Word 2003. The better idea seemed to be to package just one Office 2003 program at a time. The DotTech article seemed to say that installing the whole Office 2003 suite at once would cause a problem: all of the programs in it would run anytime I tried to start any one of them.
Then it would run a post-installation snapshot, and give me the package. Then it wanted me to install the program that I wanted to package (i.e., Office 2003).
The basic idea was that, when I ran Cameyo, it took a pre-installation snapshot of my entire system. I found descriptions of Cameyo's virtualization process at DotTech and Addictive Tips I also found at least some potential for support in Cameyo's own thinly developed forums. In a relatively brief inquiry, depending heavily on the slickness of the developer's webpage, I got the impression that Cameyo (although still in beta) was the best-developed of the three, so I started with that. This amounted to a search for information on Cameyo, FilePacker, and JauntePE. Among the many virtualization tools listed in Wikipedia, I wanted WinXP-compatible freeware. The more intriguing possibility was to use an application virtualization tool designed to create my own portable version of Microsoft Office (or of other installed software, for that matter). These presumably pirated versions seemed to carry the risks of being unstable or nonworking, and also of infecting my computer with viruses when I downloaded or ran them. Alternatively, I had found that I could download copies of Office 2003 that people had converted into portable format. Normally, I would just install Office from the CD, and by default it would do its installation thing on drive C. This post describes my investigation into that question. In the process of transitioning toward greater use of portable apps, I came across the question of whether Microsoft Office 2003 could be made portable. I had discovered that many Windows XP applications came in portable form, or could be made portable, and I had decided that portability had some advantages for me.
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