U3 Program Launcher

Wednesday, 20 September, 2006

I’ve been looking for a program menu to go with my external USB hard drive for a while now. I’ve blogged before about running portable (U3) apps from an external device. As I have slowly accumulated more apps it has become necessary to have some kind of application launcher. And the one that consistently comes up in discussion is PStart. I would actually go as far to say that this is essential to using an external drive. PStart has some great features that make it dead useful in this role:

  • tray application
  • relative shortcuts allowing the device to be mounted to any drive letter
  • autoplay PStart to load it
  • auto-load certain applications, once PStart as started up



What this means in practice is that you can plug your device in to any (Windows) machine and it will load PStart from any drive letter, auto-start applications on the drive and then give you access to a program menu just for the device.

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