App Manager

Depending on what an application is specialized to do, it might need to create some entries in the system registries for Windows to allow it to function. Others don’t and can even be used from an USB Flash drive. For them, you can use App Manager to have an organized list at hand, and the possibility to kill any corresponding process.

Just like the thing it’s dedicated to, this application doesn’t require you to go through a setup process. However, what you do need to do is make sure the computer you use it on is equipped with Java Runtime Environment, because it was built on that platform and requires it to function.

When you run it, the main window automatically hides itself to the system tray, so don’t worry in case nothing pops on your desktop. There’s also a balloon message that lets you know the application successfully starts and stays hidden for now.

The main window doesn’t have much to offer, but this makes accommodation pretty easy. Sadly, it’s position is fixed to a specific part of the screen, and clicking outside the interface, even by mistake, brings it back to the system tray.

You get to navigate in two different tabs. One of them acts like a file explorer and displays the contents of the connected USB Flash drive. Multiple categories can be created, and there’s also a side panel with a few quick access location on your computer.

The other tab is dedicated to process view. Similar to the one Windows provides by default, you can terminate anything that’s running, with a single mouse click. However, processes are only taken into account if run from an external device, with the local ones not shown.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that App Manager is a neat little utility you can easily deploy on an USB Flash drive along with your other portable applications. It might not have much to offer, but provide a simple means of arranging your programs in groups, and handling their processes.