where is the best place to store portable apps in Windows 7

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I have a number of small portable apps and utilities. Where does Microsoft recommend we keep these?

Lots of installed apps install themselves into \users{username}\appdata\local but it doesn't make much sense for me to put stuff there myself. \program files\ doesn't seem right either because non admin users don't have write access there.

Is it recommended to create a \users{username}\applications directory?

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