When you unplug the USB drive, no configuration files, caches, or logs remain on the computer you used.

Navigate to the bin folder within your extracted PyCharm folder. Locate idea.properties .

Browse to your USB drive, navigate into the WinPython directory, and select python.exe . Method B: Use the Official Python Embeddable Package

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Unzip the downloaded pycharm-community-*.zip into D:\PortableApps\PyCharmCE\pycharm-community-2024.3\ .

Happy coding – from any machine.