Bench

Bench is an isolated and portable environment for a selection of graphical programs and command-line tools. Bench allows you to download and run many programs without actually installing them into Windows. It comes with a graphical user interface to provide a comfortable entry into the environment.

Whenever you need an environment with command-line support and your tools on the PATH, and you want to replicate, version control, or share this environment including the installed tools, Bench can be a huge help for you.

BenchSetup.exe
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1. Create a folder for Bench.
2. Download and run BenchSetup.exe
3. Select some apps for your Bench environment.
4. Spend your time working on the next project.

Checkout the documentation of Bench. It is well organized and structured in practice-oriented levels of detail. There is the Quickstart, a number of Tutorials, Tech Guides and for the details the Reference Docs. If you still have a question feel free to contact the author.

Bench comes with libraries, which contain descriptions of Windows applications. Such a description is called an app definition and contains the name, the download URL of the setup package, the version, and more. Bench uses the app definitions to download and install the apps in the Bench environment.