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Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren’t cool enough, it’s portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.

Built from the same guts as the andLinux system that lets you seamlessly run Linux apps on your Windows desktop, Portable Ubuntu is a stand-alone package that runs a fairly standard (i.e. orange-colored, GNOME-based) version of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It just doesn’t bother creating its own desktop, and puts all its windows inside your Windows

Install Portable Ubuntu in windows PC

First you need to download latest version from here after downloading you can see the following details

File name:- Portable_Ubuntu.exe

File Size :- 438 MB (At the time of writing)

Project home page :-  http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net

After completing your download double-click to unpack it to a folder. On Vista or Windows 7, you’ll have to open your command prompt as an administrator (hit Windows key, type in cmd, then right-click on the "Command Prompt" option that appears and select "Run as Administrator"); on XP, you’ll probably just have to launch a command prompt. Head to the folder where you extracted your Portable Ubuntu, and enter run_portable_ubuntu and hit Enter to launch the .bat script.

Your machine will whir and decompress for a while, and you’ll likely get a few prompts to "Unblock" coLinux and a few other apps’ abilities on your system. Unblock all of them, and you’ll eventually get a small, move-able menu bar on your desktop, as seen in the top screenshot. Drag this wherever it’s comfortable to keep it, and you’re on your way.

NB: For those who miss it over at the Portable Ubuntu page, the default root password is 123456.

Step 1:

Download Portable Ubuntu from source forge.The file size is 438MB.

Step 2:

Now unzip the file which you have downloaded from sourceforge to a directory of name “Portable-Ubuntu” in C drive.

Step 3:

Now go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, and right click on Command Prompt and
run as administrator . This will start cmd.exe in administrator mode.

type in:

Then you will see another window of command prompt open and installation begins.

After completion of installation , you can able to see the Portable Ubuntu Windows application on your desktop, as shown in the picture below:

You can able to copy and paste data between Ubuntu and Windows applications .One thing which attracts me that Portable Ubuntu needs no installation , only need to copy the downloaded files in the folder which you have created in C drive.Try this and share your comments.

So far, this approach only works for Window 32 Bits not 64 bits, please leave me a comment if you know how to work around this issue.