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PortableApps
Your Computer on a memory stick
PortableApps is a menu and application launcher system that runs on/from a USB device. In fact it can be run from any drive, I have my netbook's hard drive partitioned and run PortableApps on my D: drive.
For today's AGM hands-on session you can experiment using the H: drive on the lecture room computers - this will be faster than using a USB device 
First things first
The home of PortableApps is http://portableapps.com
Within this I suggest you first browse the range of Apps available on http://portableapps.com/apps
Then look at the download page http://portableapps.com/download
Which download?
I suggest you go for the beta release of version 2, as suggested on the download page. This download installs just the base menu system. If you wish, the v1.6.1 download page offers three packages - base, light and standard (= heavy!)