My personal favorite – WinPenPack from Italy. Completly customaisable ‘tidy’ menu and tons of applications
Probably the best known is PortableApps.com, but I don’t rate it aginst WinPenPack..
Lupo Pensuite. Good applications, damn ugly menu
A new offering I’ve never seen before, downloading it now. As well as these you can make your own ‘packs’ with the menus provided or one of these…
8start Launcher - the author thinks it's god
8start launcher at 8start.com
- Portable with relative path defined supported
- Accessed by system tray, hotkey and middle mouse
- Changable skin with transpancy png format
- Whole new concept of launching your applications and files.. (um steady on its only an app launcher not a rocket ship.)
Portable Start Menu - does what it says on the tin
Portable Start Menu v3.2 – what it looses in name originality it makes up for with simplicity. Drag and drop, nice and easy
Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon. If you close Portable Start Menu on an USB-Stick, running applications can be closed automatically, too.
Asuite, apparently..
ASuite..
ASuite is a simple application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.
dont know what the A stands for, atrocious if that skin is anything to go by…
Good ol' Pstart
Ah, Pstart.. I remember, when I was a nipper, there was no such thing as these new fangled ‘portable apps’. Then again the was no such thing as the windows registry, so everything was portable. The first menu i used..
PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications.
nice and easy
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