Lupo PenSuite

Lupo PenSuite represents a collection of ready tools that can be accessed from a user-friendly environment, without any installers. Among its long list of portable apps we can mention Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird, uTorrent, and FileZilla.

This application suite is ideally stored on a USB flash disk, enabling you to run it on any workstation with minimum effort. You don't have to worry about new entry additions to the Windows registry, Start menu or other parts of the hard disk.

For instance, Lupo PenSuite can be used when reinstalling the operating system, instead of installing numerous apps, since it saves you a lot of time in the process.

Unfortunately, the extraction procedure takes a long time to finish, during which you may experience glitches while working in other applications.

At initialization it is best to manage the list of portable apps and exclude the ones whose services you don't require. You can check out their names, versions and types, choose the preferred icon set, as well as create backups (for settings only, or settings and all tools).

As far as general options go, you can enable the suite's autorun at system startup or device connection, make portable file associations, switch to a different UI language, and use proxies, aside from more advanced parameters available (e.g. activate MRU, enable hotkeys).

The primary panel is accessible through a system tray icon, where the apps are organized into categories (e.g. Internet - Web Browsers, Multimedia - Video Player, Graphics - Image Viewers). You can safely remove the USB device and view its capacity, use a search function to locate apps, and access Windows locations (e.g. My Documents, My Music).

Lupo PenSuite is low on the system resources, has a good response time, and launches apps quickly. As long as it gets regular updates for the supported portable utilities, the highly customizable Lupo PenSuite should be indispensable to any serious user.