Portable Applications (requires no installation to work) are not only useful to carry around-in your removable disk drive but also have the added advantage of not cluttering-up your operating-system with their dependencies and leftovers after uninstallation, commercial application VMWare ThinApp is the most widely used technology to create portable packages of conventional applications, but if you are looking for a free alternative to ThinApp we now have Cameyo - world's first free, open-architecture application virtualization platform.

Users are not allowed to switch off DEBUG mode in VMWare Workstation beta versions as no "Gather debugging information" option is available to switch it off. Running virtual machines in debug mode has significant impact on virtual machine performance and you are warned about this every time you launch a VM.

Here is simple and fast trick to disable the debug mode in beta version to get rid of this warning and faster virtual machine performance.