Using portable applications bring many benefits if you want to create a stable and fully optimized PC as a platform focused for real-time audio processing: Functionality – installed or portable applications seems to be more feature-rich, and nice-looking compared to UWP apps.

Reliability – users experienced lots of problems where UWP apps were failing, and not one or two, but all UWP apps except Edge,.Speed – UWP apps seem to be slower than installed or portable ones,.

To maintain a clean Windows environment focused on audio processing for live performance, we recommended that you uninstall all UWP apps that you do not use, as already described in chapter Control what is running in the background. To run a portable application, you normally download the ZIP archive, unzip it to a folder on your drive, and run the main executable. Many modern applications are offered as portable versions, besides installers: A portable application is a program that does not need to be installed and is designed to read and write its configuration settings into an accessible folder in the computer, usually in the folder where the portable application can be found. If you want to dedicate your PC fully to audio processing, and keep it as clean as possible, you may want to consider using portable applications, instead of installed applications for your additional non-audio related needs (Web browsing, PDF viewer, etc.).

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