You may be asking yourself, "Why would I bother with geek.menu? Shouldn't I stick with the PortableApps.com menu?" Well, there are many things that set geek.menu apart from the other options out there. The most significant difference is the current pace of development. While the PortableApps.com menu is maintained by the same guy maintaining almost every package for the menu, I'm focusing on making the best possible menu. I wrote geek.menu after getting frustrated waiting for some pretty important features, like categorization and encryption. Since then, geek.menu has been improving regularly thanks to suggestions from everyone in the PortableApps community.

Here's an attempt at a comprehensive list of features that set geek.menu apart.

Included in the stable release

• Security Features
  • support for running applications and saving documents to a TrueCrypt encrypted volume to protect your privacy if your USB key is lost or stolen.
  • supports for alternate profiles for trusted and untrusted PCs.
• Menu Interface enhancements
  • Support for categories
  • The menu height can be adjusted
  • User defined location buttons in the right column
  • A searchbar supporting internet and local searches
  • The title bar can be customized
  • The system tray icon can be changed
  • The system tray icon can keep it's position as the leftmost icon
  • Themes can be switched while running the menu
  • Icon themes can be switched while running the menu
  • The drive space graphic is more accurate
• Desktop environment features
  • Wallpaper switching, including support for multiple wallpapers
  • Host wallpaper info is backed up and restored in the event of an improper shutdown
  • The system path can be modified on insertion/removal to add portable directories to the path
• Other features
  • Application can be automatically executed when the menu starts
  • An ejection script can be specified

Included in the experimental release release (along with everything above)

• Security Features
  • Truecrypt can be run without the trayicon
  • The truecrypt volume can be mounted as read only on untrusted PCs
• Menu Interface enhancements
  • Application Icons can be modified
  • Application labels can be modified
  • XP Themeing support
• Desktop environment features
  • The Windows "Places Bar" (in file open/save dialogs) can be customized while the menu is running
• Other features
  • Support to open location buttons with Xenon or other custom explorer applications
  • Custom locations for standard buttons (Music, Videos, Pictures) can be defined in the locale file
  • Custom search locations can be defined in the locale file