I have a corporate laptop (Windows 7) that has restrictive permissions as far as

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I have a corporate laptop (Windows 7) that has restrictive permissions as far as installing ad hoc software packages. I need to be able to remotely use a Linux desktop (Ubuntu), and for a secure shell package PuTTY is usable (it runs just as an executable from a personal directory).

Getting an X Server that I can forward X traffic to is more difficult, simply because of the size of the package (number of files). I'm thinking about installing an X Server on a USB memory stick, hoping that one can be found to run that way.

Several sites offer modified Xming packages that claim to do this. Does anyone have a recommendation from personal experience that will supply an X Server running from memory stick?

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I've recommended mobaxterm in the past and I'd do it again here - its a nice little precompiled package of cygwin based tools that includes a bash shell, with tabs (which you can use for text mode SSH), xserver and quite a few other useful things. You can either run local X apps on it, X forward a single application, or an entire desktop using XDMCP.

They have demos on their site (which are annoyingly not linkable here) of what it can do and there are many first and third party plugins including older versions of X11 and mosh.

The basic version is free, and there's no limits on the features you need there (the paid version has tftp, http and ftp servers as well).

The portable version is less than 20MB so it probably fits your needs perfectly.

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