Bootable Flash Drive

Clarifications

If you want to make it bootable try this article. Check out the requirements, they could be a problem.

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html

If you want to have it autostart a presentation try this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:USB_flash_drive#Autostart.3F

I haven?t done either yet but have been thinking about it.

that seems like alot of work and will not always work in all PCs, when you can go and get a download of knoppix and burn it to a CD. It boots from the CD and no worries of boot device here. I have used it a number of times to recover windows and or a users files. Below is the website to obtain knoppix
It is free
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.knoppix.org/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dknoppix%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLR_enUS241US242

Open office has a portable version it is 77.4 MB in size and works with all Microsoft office documents, presentations etc. it also can be created and saved as a Microsoft office type also. I carry it on my flash drive as one of my tools. below is the free download
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable