POD (Portable, Open Desktop)

It's what i know, it's what all my tools are set up to use, and it is what i have written most of my former projects in. Using NSIS for this would just be a headache for me to learn a new language, when C++ does it just as well if not better. Plus, i can make use of all of the millions of code samples on the Internet whenever i want to do something, and it could theoretically be ported to mac or Linux some day (although that is unlikely, it is theoretically possible).

The shortcut handling isn't ideal. It assumes that all the shortcuts point to programs on the removable drive. As such, it does it like this:

for each shortcut in *; do
  std::string Contents = shortcut.readAll();
  int pos = Contents.find(':');
  while (pos != std::string::npos) {
    Contents[pos-1] = ;
    pos = Contents.find(':', pos+1);
  }
  shortcut.write(Contents);
done;

Basically, it searches through the file, finds ':', replaces the character before it with the current drive letter of the removable drive, and then writes the file back to disk. The code above isn't the actual code, just a mix of javascript, bash, and C++ wherever i felt one language was more natural. Ideally, it would keep track of the previous drive letter, and only replace the ones that started with that drive letter, but that is error prone if people yank it out... so it will likely just stay like this.