So, Patricia, while you can’t install every program on your flash drive, you can use your drive to run lots of great programs.

Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET How to flash Windows 11 to your USB drive To turn a standard USB drive into an installation drive, you'll need to use a program called Rufus.

Install Apps to another Partition or External Drive in Windows 10 If you need to install apps in a different location, you can change the default installation location for apps in Windows 10.