You just plug the drive into any USB port on any PC and boot into it. Windows 10 (and Windows 8, for that matter) comes with a feature called Windows To Go, which lets you build a portable version of the operating system you can run directly from a USB drive.

In this issue’s Weekend Project, we show you how to do just that. An alternative option is to clone your current Windows installation to a portable USB drive that you can boot into and run from anywhere. One solution to this problem is to remotely access your PC, but this means you have to leave your own computer switched on and relies on a good internet connection at both ends. It may not even be running the same version of Windows. But if you have to use someone else’s PC, they will also have it set up just how they like it, which means you’ll have to tolerate their customisations and choice of programs. Windows is highly customisable – you can change how it looks and behaves to suit your needs, choose which software you want to use for specific tasks and even set your favourite programs as the defaults.

Windows 10 bootable clone