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What's the most popular portable applications manager? [closed]

What's the most popular portable applications manager? [closed]

I have a bunch of applications I carry around on a small flash drive, but I find it hard to keep everything up to date. I know about portableapps.com, but are there any other websites / repositories / resources on the subject? Ideally I'd like something that can manage both the 'installation' and updates for a range of tools.

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Guest [Entry]

"UpdateNotifier is probably not a portable applications manager.

But, it helps track updates on your freeware.
It scans installed applications and checks for updates.
I like its small footprint, and fast interface.

The site also enumerates another popular applications list based on these stats."
Guest [Entry]

"The actual question is about maintaining apps already gathered onto an external drive. This seems like an example of patch management. However, an approach (a bad one, in hindsight) is to rebundle the application, via an application virtulization tool.

Xenocode (licensed by Novell as Zenworks Application Virtualization) makes a product that lets you take a Windows application, and if possible, build a standalone monolithic EXE for it. Has a virtual file system and Registry inside their wrapper.

They have bundled IE6 so that it can run on Vista and other newer OS's. Pretty cool technology.

Thus if you cannot find a version someone else made, make your own, the world is your oyster!"
Guest [Entry]

"i have my entire PC ""on a stick"" ...

meet MojoPac, a standalone Windows installation that runs directly from a flash drive or iPod."
Guest [Entry]

Few months late, but this Lifehacker post taught me everything I know on the subject.