Table Text Compare is a Free Portable Text Comparision Tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to quickly and easily compare two text files line by line. It might be used to compare, find, and list the differences between two text files. The differences are listed in the output window, and comparison reports can be exported and saved into a text file.
RecentFilesView is a Free Portable Tool created by NirSoft that can be used to display a list of all recently opened files. The tool works by identifying files that were recorded by the operating system and saved in the registry or as as recent folder entries. You can then delete unwanted filename entries or choose to save the list as a text, html, or xml file.
QTranslate is a Freeware Portable Translator created by Questsoft. It can be used to quickly translate text from one language to another. Features include the ability to translate text typed into the main window, speak translated text via it's own "Text to Speech Translator" (via Ctrl+E), translate highlighted text on the fly in a popup (via Ctrl+Q), or show highlighted translations in the main window (via Ctrl+Ctrl). QTranslate might also be used to perform a web search (via Ctrl+W). Icons for these shortcuts also appear when highlighting text.
Album Printer is a Freeware Portable tool created by Skwire. It can be used to create a list of all of the songs listed in a music directory, and or from individual songs that are dragged and dropped into the interface. It uses the artist and album audio file tags for each song. Additional features include; Export to CSV file, customizable artist and album delimiter, supports reading tags from mp3, ogg, flac, wv, mpc, ape, wma, mp4, and m4a audio formats.
Album Art Downloader XUI is a Freeware Portable Album Cover Art Downloading tool that can be used to to find, update, and download album cover art for your music collection or media library. Album Art Downloader utilizes some of the most of the popular album art sources to find your album cover art. You can search by Artist or Album Name, and you can filter by image size or cover type.
MWSnap is a Freeware Portable Screen Capture Software created by Mirek Wojtowicz. It can be used to quickly and easily take screenshots of your computer desktop. Features include the ability to take fixed rectangle snapshots, select area snapshots, active window snapshots, and full desktop snapshots. Files can be saved in .jpg, .tiff, .gif, and .png formats.
VideoCalc is a Free Portable Video Bitrate Calculator created by Abelhadigital. It can be used to figure out which video bitrate you should use when encoding a movie to DVD,SVCD, or DivX to make it fit on a specified cd/dvd or other disc. It might also be used to calculate how much space will remain on the disc for other files, and can get the length of a movie directly from the file.
Registry Commander is a Free Alternative Registry Editor created by Anders Jakobsen. It can be used as a replacement to the default Windows Registry Editor, RegEdit. Key Features include an intuitive folder like view with keys on the right, the ability to Search the registry by keyword size or data type, Cut/Copy/Rename/Move Keys and Values, Size of data is displayed in bytes, value/key bookmark capability, Supports all 12 data types.
SFV Ninja is a (Simple File Verification) Checksum Checking Tool created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to either verify a checksum file or or create a checksum file. Creation or validation of CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, or SHA-256 checksums are supported. The checksum of multiple files or even entire folders of files can be calculated or validated all at once.
WinBin2Iso is a Free BIN to ISO Converter created by Hrg Nenad. This ISO Creator can be used to convert BIN CD images to ISO images, and unlike some ISO BIN converters, supports file sizes beyond 2GB. WinBin2Iso is portable freeware, so you can store it on a flash drive and use it to create ISO from Bin files while on the go.
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OutlookAttachView is a Free Outlook Email Attachment Extractor created by NirSoft. It can be used to scan Outlook email messages and display a list of all attached files that it finds. You can extract or save the attachments you want to a folder of your choice. OutlookAttachView also allows you to delete unwanted attachments, helping to keep your mailbox free of clutter. The list of attached files can also be exported to either an xml, html, text, or csv file. Supports Microsoft Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2010.
UUDWIN is a Free Email Attachment Extractor created by Mark Spankus. It can be used to batch extract attachments from email .eml, .pst, and, .msg files. Perfect tool to quickly extract all attached files from all of your Windows Live Mail or Outlook /Express Messages at once. Simply drag and drop the .eml files into the input files window, select the attachments you want to save from the output window, and click extract.
Base64 Decoder is a Free and Portable Tool created by Tim Rohlfs. It can be used to decode attachments found in email files. For example, I used it as a Windows Live Mail Attachment Extractor to decode Windows Live Mail .eml email files, and save or extract those Base 64 encoded email attachments to another location.
Belvedere is an awesome little Automated File Manager created by Adam Pash. It can be used to do actions on files based on user defined criteria, making it easy to automate the organization and synchronization of files. Use Belvedere to copy, move, rename, delete, or open files with other programs based on file name, extension name, file size, creation date, modified date, or date last opened.
PhotoFiltre is a Free Picture Editing Software created by Antonio Da Cruz. This Portable Picture Editor can be used to quickly touch up photos, add effects, resize photos, correct red eye, white balance correction, and much more. PhotoFiltre contains most of the same image editing features found in commercial programs like PhotoShop, and utilizes a familiar tool set. Plugins like Red Eye Removal are also available to enhance it's Picture Editing potential.
Password Security Scanner is a Free Portable Password Testing tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to test the security of passwords stored in your web browsers, messengers, and email clients. Detailed information of every stored password such as total number of characters, number of numeric characters, number of lowercase/uppercase characters, number of repeating characters, and password strength is displayed, without revealing the actual passwords.
Ultra Defrag is a Free Portable Defragmenter for Windows created by the ultradefrag development team. Unlike some defragmentation tools, this powerful open source defragmenter can perform boot time defragmentation and is capable of quickly and efficiently defragmenting all files, including system locked files, registry hives, and paging files.
Birthdays is a Birthday Tracker Application created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to help keep track of birthdays via a calendar. You simply right click within a given month, select Add Birthday and enter the Name, Month/Day/Year of the person who's birthday you would like to keep track of. The check boxes might be used to signify that you have acknowledged a birthday (sent a gift, card, or simply said happy birthday to the recipient).
PacBot Answers is an Artificial Intelligence Prankware Bot created by Pijush Wares. It can be used to trick people into thinking the tool knows the answers to any question it is asked. The Answer is hidden in the petition! You then pretend to be asking PacBot a question that you already know and have given it the answer to. Essentially fooling your friends into thinking the tool knows the answer to every question it is asked.
Ten Timer is a Free Multiple Timer Alarm Software created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to set up to ten different timers for either countdown or count up alarms and notifications. For example, I setup Ten Timer as a "Baby Feeding Scheduler", for establishing wake up times to feed our new baby every couple of hours. Each timer runs independently of the other, and different notifications of alarms can be set for each individual timer.
AllDup is a Free Portable Duplicate File Finder created by Michael Thummerer Software Design. AllDup can be used to detect and remove duplicate files on any given drive or folder. Duplicates can be sorted by; Name, Extension, Size, Content, Modification or Creation Date, Attributes and Links. Results can also be exported or printed. This tool can be particularly useful if you have multiple Music, Pictures, Videos, or Downloads that you would like to sort for duplicate content.
Get Folder Size is a Freeware Portable Tool created by Michael Thummerer Software Design. Get Folder Size can be used to determine the size of a folder, subfolders, and files stored on a hard drive, CD/DVD, USB, or mapped network drives. This data can be used to help you figure out which programs are taking up the most hard disk space. GetFolderSize is available as a portable software tool, and is great for finding and ridding your hard drive of junk!
ZBack is a Portable Free Backup and Synchronization Software Utility created by David Zorc, Zagreb, Croatia. ZBack can be used to Synchronize, Mirror or Backup directories, files or entire drives. ZBack works between USB, internal or external, and mapped network drives. This Freeware backup utility is portable and sports filtering, automated batch, simple sync, simple backup, and manual mode options.
MobaXterm is a Free Portable X Server and SSH Client offered by Mobatek in either Free or paid Pro customizable versions. This enhanced terminal for Windows ships with an embedded Portable X11 server for exporting your Linux/Unix displays, Portable network tools SSH, RDP, VNC, Telnet, Rlogin, FTP, SFTP and XDMCP for remote administration and other essential Unix/Linux commands via (GNU/Cygwin), all packed into a stand alone portable executable.
SterJo Windows Key Finder is a Portable Product Key Finder created by SterJo. It can be used to recover lost Windows or Office Product Keys. Ideally this Portable tool might be used to reveal Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office 2010 product keys. A user might then copy found keys to a text document for use down the road, when you might need to reinstall the Windows software.
SterJo Portable Firewall is network protection software created by SterJo. This free version of this USB Firewall can be used to monitor access to your network, and close unwanted connections. Tabbed Activity, Policy, Log, and History views are available to help easily monitor and manage network activity. Best of all, this Firewall can be stored and run from a Flash Drive or other Portable USB device.
SterJo Portable Task Manager is a Freeware Portable tool created by SterJo. It can be used for advanced process or task management and simple Trojan or Spyware detection. This Task Manager facilitates a means to end tasks, terminate suspicious processes, start/stop/pause/end services, and close or terminate network connections. A great Free resource to help prevent your system from unauthorized access.
H2testw is a free tool that can be used to test for Counterfeit or Fake USB flash drives, and check your USB Flash Drive for errors. It works by filling the chosen target drive with test data and then reads this data back to verify it. You should probably copy your data elsewhere before performing this test on the USB Drive, or you could risk losing data.
Smart PC Optimizer is a Free Computer Tuneup Tool created by AnyLives. This program can be used to Speed up your PC. It works very quickly by optimizing your registry, clearing empty and invalid registry entries, removing temporary files "spam" and other junk from your browser and hard disk.
Rufus is an Open Source tool created by Pete Batard. This awesome little gem can Create a DOS Bootable USB Flash Drive (Boot a USB Drive to DOS). Rufus works much like the HP USB Format Tool "HPUSBFW", offering options to format the drive as FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, mark the drive bootable or active, and install a DOS environment to boot into. Additional features include the ability to check the disk for errors, create a volume label, and set cluster size.
Desktop Snow OK is a freeware portable program created by Nenad Hrg. It can be used to Add Falling Snow to a Windows desktop or background. It's kind of like a "Snow Screensaver" or "Snow Wallpaper". Options include the ability to select from different snowflakes, number of snowflakes, speed of falling snowflakes, transparency of the snow, and deactivation options via mouse events/keys. Once run, Desktop Snow OK is minimized to the task bar.
Visual Boy Advance or VBA, is an Open Source Emulator for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, and Game Boy Color handheld game systems. Visual Boy Advance was created by Forgotten, and is currently maintained by Sébastien Guignot. Visual Boy Advance supports the emulation of .GBA, .GBC, and .SGB ROMs.
Portable Serva is a tiny all in one portable multiple protocol web server application created by Patrick Masotta. Available in both 32 and 64 bit platforms, Serva boasts an HTTP server, DHCP server, proxyDHCP server, FTP server, TFTP server, TFTP client, DNS server, SNTP server, and SYSLOG server. Simply start Serva, configure settings, then restart it! Each Server's status and log is viewable directly from the main window of the tool.
MultiHasher is a File Hash Generator or Checksum Calculator created by abelhadigital. Offered as Portable Freeware, MultiHasher can be used to validate, check or create MD5, SHA-1, CRC32, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 hashes or checksums. The tool supports drag and drop functionality, can be used to calculate hash values for multiple files at ince, and offers unicode support.
HostsMan is a Portable Freeware Windows Hosts File Manager or Host File Editor created by abelhadigital. It can be used to quickly and easily manage your Windows Hosts File. Once launched, Hosts File Manager resides in the Taskbar. Features include the ability to enable or disable individual entries in hosts file, scan hosts for errors, duplicates and hijacks, a hosts name resolver, backup a hosts file and much more.
Ultra PDF Merger is a Free PDF File Merging Software created by Michalis Nicolaides. It can be used to, as the name suggests, merge multiple PDF files into one single PDF file. Note: although Ultra PDF Merger is available as a stand alone executable with dll file, it does require .Net framework to run. Additional options include the ability to organize the order in which PFD files are merged, and to remove files from the list.
Free Undelete is a file recovery tool created by Recoveronix Ltd that can be used to help restore or recover lost or deleted files from Fat12, Fat16, Fat32, or NTFS filesystems. Free Undelete is entirely freeware for personal use only. Business users must purchase a license. As with any recovery tool, you should stop disk activity and save recovered data to another disk, to prevent overwriting areas containing deleting file information.
ProcessKO is a Freeware Portable Task Management tool created by Nenad Hrg of SoftwareOK. ProcessKO can be used to quickly kill any running processes (process terminator). Very useful for killing a hanging process or program, that cannot otherwise be ended or closed using Task manager.
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WebCookiesSniffer is a packet sniffer tool created by NirSoft that can be used to view or capture cookies from the sites you visit and view them in a cookies table. The cookie string and the host or site that sent or received each cookie is displayed in the top section. When you select a cookie string from the upper panel, the cookie string is parsed and displayed as name value format in the bottom section.
Music2PC is a freeware standalone MP3 Music Downloader created by David Hall. According to David, This non-bittorrent and non-peer-to-peer software can be used to legally get free MP3s posted via 100% Free Legal Music Sources on the Internet. Just type the name of the artist or or song you want to download, optionally choose the output destination folder, click search, and download from the results. Songs download extremely fast, and can be played back as they are downloaded.
ExeInfo is freeware executable information tool created by NirSoft. It allows you to view detailed information about binary .exe, .dll, ocx, and driver files. Information such as file size, file creation/modification date, executable format, header information, and more is displayed.
Facebook Password Decryptor is another Free Password Recovery Tool created by SecurityXploded. It can be used to quickly Recover Facebook Account Login Passwords stored on the system the tool is run from. It works by scanning for web browsers and applications on the system that were used to login to facebook. The tool then attempts to decrypt or recover the facebook password for each given login.
Google Password Decryptor is a Free and Portable Google Password Recovery Tool created by SecurityXploded. As it's name suggests, it can be used to Recover lost Google Account Login Passwords. But it can also be used to decrypt, reveal or recover passwords for Gmail, Picassa, GTalk, iGoogle, Desktop Search, and other Google Based Applications.
HashGenerator is a Free Hash Generator created by SecurityXploded. It can be used to quickly and easily create or generate a hash for any file or text, and also supports drag and drop Hash File Generation. Supports 14 of the most popular Check Sums or "Hashes" including MD2, MD4,MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, ADLER32, CRC32, ROT13, RIPEMD160, HAVAL256-4, and WHIRLPOOL.
GSpot is a Freeware Audio Video Codec Checker created by Steve Greenberg. It can be used to quickly check which codec is required to play a select media file. GSpot will tell you if the system has the required codecs installed to play the file. Simply drag and drop the file you would like to check into the program window. Although GSpot is self executing and does run from the flash drive without installation, it writes to registry (and some may consider it not portable).
Complete Internet Repair is a no nonsense portable tool created by rizonesoft. As the name suggests, it can be used to attempt to fix or repair any internet related problems with your computer, including network problems. This tool can be particularly handy if you happen to experience one of the following situations.
Wireless Network Watcher is a Portable Free Network Monitoring tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to view or see who is using your Wireless Network (Who is on your WiFi). The tool scans and creates a list of every computer and device that is currently connected to your wireless network. The IP address, device name, MAC address, and network adapter manufacturer is displayed for each computer connected to the wireless network.
BleachBit is an Open Source Free Portable System Cleaner, optimization and privacy tool created by Andrew Ziem. It can be used to delete files and logs, clear Internet history, wipe cache, delete cookies, shred temporary files and more. Advanced features include the ability to shred files to prevent recovery, wipe free disk space to make deleted data unrecoverable, and "vacuuming Firefox to make it faster".
Tunnelier is a Tunneling and File Transfer SSH/SFTP client created by Bitvise Limited and is Free for personal use. Tunnelier Portable is a portable Tunneling (Tunnelier) version offered by VBAP Pty. Ltd. It essentially enables you to share files through SFTP and supports remote desktop forwarding, amongst many other things.
DomainHostingView is a Free Portable WHOIS Domain Lookup tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to View Domain Hosting Information for any Website Domain. Information such as the domain name owner, domain name registrar, created changed and expire dates, web and mail server hosting company, domain name server and all DNS records, etc.
WinCrashReport is a Free Tool created by NirSoft that offers an alternative to the default Windows crash reporting program. WinCrashReport provides a detailed Windows Crash Report or Log of crashed applications from the crash dump, in an attempt to help you further troubleshoot and fix the problem.
Access Passview is a Free Access Password Recovery Tool Created by NirSoft. It can be used to recover your Access Database passwords by revealing passwords of mdb files. Supports recovery of database passwords created with Microsoft Access or Jet Database Engines.
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DNSDataView is a Free DNS Data Checking tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to check the IP Address DNS records (MX, NS, A, SOA) of domains "Lookup Domain Host". DNSDataView includes the ability to specify a DNS server. The Retrieved DNS records can also be exported to a text, xml, html or csv file.
Date Reminder is a Freeware Portable Event Reminder Software created by Horst Schaeffer. It can be used to create reminders of events, birthdays, appointments, billings etc. Reminders can be recurring or non-recurring and you can adjust when to be reminded. It also includes launcher capability enabling you to load a file, program, email or website as part of the reminder.
TimeSync is a Freeware Portable Time Synchronization tool created by Horst Schaeffer. It can be used to quickly synchronize your PC's time clock with an atomic clock (NIST Internet Time Service). Multiple NIST Atomic Clock Servers are available to choose from if another one does not respond.
NumCapsScroll Indicator, created by Vasilios Freeware, can be used to indicate and manage keyboard Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock status. Very useful if a keyboard is missing any of these buttons (for example; my Envy HP laptop keyboard does not have a Num Lock key).
AutoHideDesktopIcons is a Freeware Portable program created by Nenad Hrg. As the name suggests, it can be used to automatically hide desktop icons and even hide the taskbar if you choose. Key features include the ability to set the hide timer and select which mouse button to use to display the hidden desktop icons.
Digsby is an All-In-One Instant Messaging, Email, and Social Networking tool created by dotSyntax LLC. It can be used to manage all your IM, email and social network accounts with one tool using one login. A Digsby Portable Install option exists for installing to a USB device.
Microsoft Safety Scanner is a Free Antivirus, Malware, and Spyware Scanner. This stand-alone tool can perform on-demand viruses, spyware, and malicious software scanning. It should be used in conjunction with an existing Antivirus solution. A caveat is that it expires every 10 days, and needs to be re-downloaded to keep up with the latest anti-malware definitions.
SARDU (Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility), is a MultiBoot Builder created by Davide Costa. It can be used to create a Live MultiBoot USB CD or DVD containing Antivirus Tools, Live Linux Distros, Diagnostics Tools, Windows PE, Windows Vista,7 and even Windows XP Installers.
UUI – Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that can be used to quickly build a Live Linux USB Flash Drive. In enables you to install your favorite Live Linux Distribution on a Flash Drive, and then restart your computer booting from that Portable Operating System.
LiLi – Live Linux USB Creator is another nice little Live USB Builder created by Thibaut Lauzière. It can be used to make a Live Linux USB Flash Drive containing your favorite Linux Distribution. You can then Boot the Live Linux Operating System from the Flash Drive, instead of using a CD/DVD.
YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is a MultiBoot Live USB Creation Tool that can be used to quickly and easily build custom bootable USB Flash Drives containing multiple Live Linux distributions, Windows installers, Antivirus tools, system diagnostic, and troubleshooting software of your choosing.
Burrrn is a Free Audio CD Burning Software created by Gambit. It can be used to quickly and efficiently create music CDs or "Burn" and make custom Audio CDs. Wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets are supported.
Lupo PenSuite is another free Suite of Portable Applications and Games. Including over 180 portable programs and games. Examples include; 7-Zip, Audacity, CCleaner, eMule, FileZilla, Firefox, Foxit Reader, GIMP, IrfanView, Notepad++, Opera, Pidgin, Thunderbird, µTorrent, VLC. Lupo PenSuite utilizes the ASuite Portable Application Launcher to keep things organized, easy to find, and launch.
Pale Moon Portable is a Stand Alone Web Browser created by Moonchild Productions. This Portable Browser is based on a minimalist Firefox framework, but is entirely optimized for modern chipsets. In fact, the authors have claimed up to a 25% overall performance increase over Mozilla Firefox. Best of all, you can take it with you.
Emerge Desktop is an Open Source and Portable Alternate Replacement Windows Shell. This Shell works by temporarily replacing the Windows Explorer desktop user interface through the implementation of MinGW. The Shell provides familiar functionality along with new features, enhancements, and plugins not found in the native Windows Explorer Shell. For example it could be used to potentially run Unix/Linux native programs on Windows?
Dexpot is a Free for personal use tool that offers the ability to manage multiple Windows Virtual Desktops. Dexpot houses many features including ability to add up to 20 custom desktops, use different settings and wallpapers for each desktop, ability to rotate desktops in a cube like manner via the dexcube windows cube desktop plugin, and more.
MP3 Quality Modifier is a Free tool created by Kevin Schneider. Very useful for reducing the amount of space your Mp3 inventory takes up, while maintaining sound quality and ID3 tags. It enables you to edit the quality (Bitrate and Frequency) of your Mp3 files and save the converted files to a new location.
Simple Ping is as the name suggests, a Ping tool created by PCWinTech. It enables you to keep an eye on your internet ping by pinging a select I Address, so that you can tell if any slow loading problems are related to your ping. Simple Ping sports a few settings that can be adjusted to suite your needs.
MultiVNC is a cross platform Multicast enabled Portable VNC Viewer created by Christian Beier. It can be used as a stand alone VNC Client Viewer to connect to VNC Servers that are running on any supported Windows, Linux, Unix-OSX platforms.
Installed Codec is a Free program created by NirSoft. It enables you to view detailed information regarding exactly what Codec drivers and DirectShow filters are installed on a system. Codecs and DirectShow filters can also be enabled or disabled via the tool.
MyIP is a Free and Portable tool that can be used to display your Internet IP address. It will also display any local IP addresses assigned to the first three network adapters of a PC. Both the LAN and WAN IP Addresses can easily be copied and pasted into other programs.
System Spec is a Portable System Information Tool created by Alex Nolan. This free portable utility provides detailed system specification and information about the Hardware and Software Installed on the PC it is run from. The System Specs are categorized and easy to access.
CBurner is a Free and Portable CD DVD Burner created by CIVIS Software. It can be used as stand alone disk burning software to burn ISO, UDF or CUE images or data to a disk. Other features include the ability to make backup copies of your CD or DVDs, create audio CDs or erase erasable optical disks.
Free Time Tracker is a Portable Time Tracking Tool created by Kviptech. Record or track how much time is spent at the computer on related activities. Applications are grouped into categories and the percentage of time spent on each is charted for reference. Could be used as a time card to monitor productivity.
Lighty2Go is a free and portable (LIMP) LightTPD, MySQL, PHP Web server application for Windows. It can be used to host a website, or test PHP code and MySQL database structures. Enabling you to take your Web Server and Web Work with you on a USB drive.
Physion is a Free 2D Portable Physics Simulation Software created by Dimitris Xanthopoulos. This realistic Physics Simulator can be used to simulate the laws of Physics in an intuitive Game Like manner. Physion enables a user to experiment in a fun way, by creating scenarios which are put to the test on screen right before your eyes.
Tiny Burner Portable is a Free Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Burning Software created by Softland. Tiny Burner Portable supports popular Drives and can write to CD, DVD and Blu-ray (single and double layer). This tool can also burn ISOs to a disk, create ISO images from existing discs, and can be used as a portable backup tool to backup important file/folder data. Tiny Burner works on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and 2008/2003/2000 Server.
CFServerUSB "Coldfusion webserver" is a Standalone, Portable Coldfusion Webserver created by coldfusionplanet. Based on Railo 3.1 Jetty, this Webserver includes MySQL 5.0 with an EMS MySQL Manager and can be run entirely from a USB device for portable web application development and website building/testing.
MediaInfo is an Open Source Tool that can be used to display tag and other techinical information about any select audio or video file. MediaInfo can also be used to locate missing codecs or find a player for the select audio/video file. Retrieved media information can also be displayed and even exported many different ways.
Folder Size is a Portable and Free program created by MindGems. It can be used to scan an attached drive and display how much space each directory is consuming. Disk space consumed by each folder is broken down by percentage and displayed by your choice of either a bar or pie chart.
Yoono is a Portable Messenger founded by Pascal Josselin. This All in One Chat Client can be used to instant message via multiple IM services including Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube, FriendFeed, Flickr, Linkdin, Yammer, AIM, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, and Foursquare using one single messenger.
ClipCube is a Free and Portable Clipboard Recorder or Clipboard Capturing Utility that can be stored and run entirely from a USB Drive. Once launched it resides in the system tray, keeping track of all text that has been copied to the clipboard. ClipCube boasts a very simple interface.
LSN Password Safe is another Free Password Manager that can be stored and run from a portable USB device. It features a password generator, key file generator, hash sum calculator, expiration date reminder, cascade encryption, and a secure virtual keyboard.
TapinRadio is an internet radio player and internet radio recorder created by Raimersoft. It sports the ability to not only play internet radio, but also record a single song, or record an audio stream with or without splitting, and even schedule time and day to start and stop recording. TapinRadio is multilingual, includes a station browser, station URL entry, station update tool, and a sleep timer.
Stress MY PC is a Free tool created by Nenad Hrg. It can be used to Stress the CPU, Graphics Card, and Hard Drive of your PC or Laptop. Great way to see how log your laptop battery can hold a charge, or to test if your overclocked system can remain stable without crashing under a load.
YouTube Downloader HD is a Free Portable YouTube Video Downloader tool that can be used to download videos from YouTube and save them to your Hard Drive or removable USB device. You can start another instance of YouTube Downloader HD to download multiple videos at the same time. YouTube Videos can be converted from FLV to AVI video (XVID) or MP4 formats.
Undelete 360 is a Free Portable File Recovery Software Tool created by File Recovery Ltd. It can be used to undelete, recover, or restore files accidentally deleted from your computers hard drive, flash drives, external USB hard drives, camera, memory cards, and more. Undelete 360 displays the status of the deleted files to help determine if the files are fully recoverable.
My Commander (MyCO), is a small and portable file manager for Windows created by Alex Averian. It can be used to quickly access folders and files. Create or Extract ISO and Zip files. Move, copy, rename, delete files or folders. Map folders to drive letters and more. MyCO also features a built in file hex viewer, drag and drop support, and file search capability.
Blowfish Advanced CS is a Free and Portable File Encryption Program created by Markus Hahn. It can be used to encrypt and protect files with a key built from a password, keeping everyone but you from accessing the contents of the protected files. Blowfish Advanced CS also includes a feature to erase or Wipe files that are no longer needed, making the data from them irrecoverable.
File Renamer is a Free Portable Software created by Stefan Trost that can be used to Rename Multiple Files simultaneously. Multiple file renaming options are available with File Renamer, enabling it's user to number files, find and replace words numbers or characters in files, add characters to the file names and more.
Image Resizer is a Free Picture Resizing Tool created by Stefan Trost that can be used to Resize Multiple Images simultaneously. Simply select a folder of images, set a size, select the path to save the new images to, and click save images. Simple, easy to use, portable, and works well.
Pipette is another great Portable Color Picker created by Stefan Trost Media. It enables you to get the colors from your screen, change or modify the select colors, or convert them from one color mode to another. Pipette can display CMYK, RGB, XYZ, HEX, HSV, or TColor color modes. This tool can be stored and run entirely from a USB device.
Portable Sudoku Game – This particular version of Sudoku was created by Stefan Trost. It boasts the option to print a Sudoku game to play on paper or to play the game from your computer on screen. Other game options include training, beginner, advanced, and professional games in classical or free mode.
DNS Benchmark is a Tool created by Steve Gibson. As the name implies, it can be used to test and measure the performance of your DNS Nameservers, and offers solutions or (conclusions) to help improve performance, if your DNS Nameservers appear to be affecting your Internet experience.
Xleaner is a Free and Portable Privacy Cleaner created by MoreThanACleaner.de. It can be used to protect your privacy and remove computer usage tracks or traces by deleting web browsing internet history, cookies, temp files, and browser cache. Xleaner can also clean Window's temp files, clear search history, clear recent documents, remove junk files and much more.
CPU Stability Test is a Free Processor Tester created by Jouni Vuorio. Used as a "CPU Torture Test" to check your computer system for stability by performing various tests. Test options include Normal, CPU Warming, and Troubleshooting. CPU Stability Test can be stored and run from a portable device.
Handy Encryption is a Free File Encrypter offered by ApiMash of InstallWHAT. This Portable File Encrytion Software can be used to secure or prevent important files from being read or modified by using AES-256 bit + Password hashing encryption. Once a password is set, the data in the file can only be decrypted by entering the correct password via the same Handy Encryption Tool.
i2pdf is an Image to PDF file converter created by LMG Software. It can be used to create Adobe PDF documents from images. This i2pdf Image to PDF tool was created by it's author to be tiny, fast, accurate, and easy to use. Simply drag and drop your jpg, png, tiff, or gif images into the window and click Build PDF.
EasyPHP is a Portable WAMP Web Server development package that ships bundled with an Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and the PHP scripting language. It also bundles the graphical PhpMyAdmin tool for database management and Xdebug for debugging. EasyPHP is pretty much self configuring and can be stored and run entirely from a USB Flash Drive, and works well for portable web development.
OpenSim is a Free and Portable Virtual Reality World Server. It can be used to create Simulated Virtual Worlds similar to those in SecondLife, but self hosted. OpenSim is written in C#, ships with a pre-configured sqlite database. It is also self contained and ready to run out of the box. Client connection requires that a port is opened and that the client connect via a viewer such as Hippo Viewer.
WebPassView is a Free and Portable Browser Password Recovery tool offered by NirSoft. Use to recover lost or forgotten login usernames and passwords. WebPassView can quickly reveal internet usernames and passwords stored within Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Opera Web Browsers. Recovered information can be saved to a text, html, csv, or xml file.
OSForensics is a Free Forensic Software created by by Passmark Software. It contains an entire Forensic toolkit with the ability to create cases, discover and read files, recover deleted files, find good and bad files using known hashes, search within files and much more. OSForensics and also includes a built in tool for copying the software to a USB device, essentially creating a Portable Forensic Lab.
OSFMount is a Free tool created by Passmark Software. It can be used to mount disk image files in Windows using a drive letter. DD Images (bit-for-bit copies of a disk partition), .IMG, .ISO, .Bin, .00n, .NRG, SDI, AFF, AFM, AFD, VMDK image file types are supported. The information in the mounted images can then be read, copied, or analyzed with the OSForensics or other software. Multiple images can be mounted at once.
RoadKil's Disk Image is a Free Backup Image Software Tool created by Jason Hatley. This tool might be used to create a backup disk image ".img" file or a cloned copy of a USB, Floppy, hard drive, or partition. Disk Image can also be used to write third party and self created images back to floppy, USB, or hard disks, or effectively create a clone of a disk by using the same image on more than on disk.
FirefoxDownloadView is a Portable Free Software Tool offered by NirSoft. It can be used to View Firefox Download History by displaying a list of files downloaded with Firefox, along with detailed firefox download information such as; Download URL, Download Filename, Path to Download, Referrer, MIME Type, File Size, Start + End Time, Download Duration, and Download Speed. List can be exported to a file.
UltraFileSearch is a Free File Search Utility created by Stegisoft. It can be used to quickly find Text, Files, or Folders within any drive or multiple drives. It supports wildcards and filemasks, and the results can be ordered and exported in many different formats. UltraFileSearch works great for quickly finding text in Documents or Text Files (TXT, RTF, HTML, LOG, .CSV etc.) or (EXE, DLL, OBJ, XLS, DOC etc.) binary files.
DriveLetterView is a Free tool created by NirSoft. This tool can be used to view drive letter assignments of all local drives,
remote network drives, CD/DVD drives, and USB devices that are or have been attached to a machine. Cool features of DriveLetterView include the ability to Change a Drive Letter of a USB Device or Network Drive or Delete USB Devices that are no longer plugged in.
Trend Micro System Cleaner (SysClean) is a Portable Malware Spyware Scanner created by Trend Micro. This Free Malware Spyware Remover can be used to scan for and terminate all running malicious software and then delete any malware or spyware copies on all drives. This tool can be stored and run from a USB device. For best results run SysClean in Safe Mode.
OpenPuff is a Free Steganography and Watermarking software tool created by Cosimo Oliboni. As the name suggests, OpenPuff can be used to Watermark Photos, Images, and Pictures. It can also be used to Encrypt or Hide Data in a file. The hidden data or messages can then only be accessed by entering the proper password via OpenPuff.
HDBench is another nice little Portable and Free Benchmarking Software Tool. It can be used to quickly test and benchmark CPU, Memory, Video, and Disk Drive performance. Also works great for Benchmarking USB Flash Drives. Although English language support is minimal, the Benchmarking Tool appears to work well.
PasswordFox is a free Password Recovery Tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to Find and Reveal the Names and Passwords Saved or Stored in Firefox. Website, Usernames, Passwords, Fields, Realms, Password Strength, and Firefox version are displayed. The Firefox Password Information can also be exported or saved to a text file.
Gens is a SEGA Genesis Emulator created by Stéphane Dallongeville. Gens enables a user to run Sega Genesis ROMs from a Windows Based Operating System. A zipped Portable version is available from the authors site, that allows you to store and run the Gens Game Emulator from a USB drive.
HTML Image Page Builder is a Free Image to Text Converter created by Jan Horn. It can be used to convert Graphical Images to Text Images. The converted Images are saved as HTML files. Options include the ability to convert images to numbers – letters – binary or use specified text from a file. You can also change background color and customize page width of the HTML Image file.
SolarInfo – Solar System Information is a Free and Portable Tool created by Jan Horn. This neat tool can be used to provide planetary information regarding the planets and moons in our solar system. Information such as distance from sun, size, mass, gravity, temperature, and length of a day/year. A real selectable 3d rotating image of each planet is also displayed.
FolderSize is a Free Folder Size Calculating Tool created by Jan Horn. It can check the size of all folders on a select drive, making it easy to Find the largest files or folders and figure out which are consuming the most space. Options include; ability to select a drive or folder hierarchy to scan, set size to appear to left or right, set size parameters to use for colored folder icons.
Kalkules (obviously derived from calculus calculator) is a Free and Portable Universal Scientific Calculator created by Jardo. This freeware calculator can evaluate whole expressions, draw function graphs, calculate in four number systems, with fractions, or polynomials and more. Supports non traditional functions that a high school or college student might encounter.
MAME – Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is a Free Arcade Game Emulator created by Nicola Salmoria. It can be used to play old arcade games via ROMS on your modern computer. MAME can currently emulate thousands of classic arcade video games. Free Games can be found in the FREE MAME ROMS section of the Authors Site.
Mail Viewer is a Free email reader created by Michal Mutl. This Stand Alone Mail Viewer can be used to Read or Open DBX Files, Open MBX Files, Open IDX Files, and Open EML Message Database files created by Microsoft Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Blank and Secure is a Freeware tool that can be used to Permanently Delete Files, making them irrecoverable. Simply drag and drop the files you would like to Delete Permanently into the window and Blank and Secure will overwrite the data with Zeros, making the information not recoverable.
WinScan2PDF is a Free and portable utility created by Nenad Hrg that can be used to Scan Files to PDF Files. Simply select the Source Scanner, click the Scan button, and WinScan2PDF will proceed to save the scanned document as a PDF File.
SUPERAntiSpyware is a Free Spyware, Malware and Adware detection and removal tool created by Nick Skrepetos. This on demand scanner can be used to quickly detect and remove Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, and many other security threats, even on a very compromised system.
Spybot Search and Destroy is a Free security tool created by safer-networking that can be used to detect and remove Spyware and Malware, and correct registry issues. Spybot Search and Destroy Portable is a portable wrapper created by portable apps that enables you to carry this Anti-Spyware, Anti-Malware Tool with you on a flash drive.
Stellarium is Free Planetarium Software offered by stellarium.org that allows you to gaze at a realistic 3D view of the sky, planets, and stars by select location. Portable Stellarium is a portable wrapper offered by portable apps that enables you to take Stellarium (portable observatory) with you on a USB Flash Drive or other portable device.
Duplicate Music Files Finder is a Free tool created by Lancuta Liviu Timotei. It can be used to detect and remove duplicate MP3, Wav, WMA files. The first music file found is listed in the left pane, duplicates found are listed in the right pane. Check boxes and Check All buttons exist on each side, making it easy to find and delete your duplicate music files all at once.
Easy Duplicate File Finder is a Free File Finder that as the name suggests, can be used to Find Duplicate Files. Very useful for finding and deleting or removing Duplicate Mp3 Song Files. It works by finding only exact duplicates of the file type you set by file mask. A minimum filesize can also be set, and multiple drives or folder paths can all be checked at once.
Royal RSS Fead Reader is a Portable RSS Feed Reader written by run.to/sz. It can be used to read Posts on "Really Simple Syndication (RSS)" Feeds. Key features include; minimize to task bar, drag and drop the feed icon into Royal RSS or manually enter the feed URL, search in feeds, set feed checking frequency, mark feeds as read, show all feeds, and save feed as an HTML file.
Last.FM Downloader is a tool created by run.to/sz that can be used to download streaming songs similar to what you're listening to on the Last.FM streaming music service. Key features of the Last.FM Downloader include; records or saves streamed songs as MP3 files in the destination you choose, ability to stop or skip downloads, and change the listening URL.
Nassau is a Free and Portable Network Connection Viewer Utility created by run.to/sz. It can be used to View, List, or Display All Network Connections and starts minimized to the taskbar. Connection information such as the IP, Gateway, and DNS server of each Network Adapter is listed in a structured window for the listed user/computer.
Parkdale is a neat Drive Speed Testing Tool created by run.to/sz. This Free and Portable Utility can be used to quickly Measure or Test the Read and Write Speed of Hard Disks, CD Drives, and Network Drives using either BlockAccess or FileAccess methods.
RIOT "Radical Image Optimization Tool" is a Free Image Compressor Resizer created by Lucian Sabo. It can be used to visually optimize JPEG, GIF, and PNG images for Best Clarity, Quality, and Smallest File Size. One cool feature is the Batch Image Optimizer option, which enables you to optimize and or resize many images all at once.
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Metapad is a Free Text and Code Editor created by by Alexander Davidson that can be used as a Portable Notepad replacement. Metapad will run from Windows 95/98/NT/XP/Vista/7. Key features include; no file size limit, unix text file support, search, hyperlink support, block indent, word wrap and much more.
Gnumeric Portable is a portable wrapper for the Free Spreadsheet Program Gnumeric. Created by Portableapps, Gnumeric Portable 1.10.12 supports the same essential spreadsheet functions as Microsoft Excel (and can Read and Edit Excel Created Spreadsheets). Gnumeric is claimed to be more accurate than some leading proprietary spreadsheets.
Free Stopwatch is an entirely Free and Portable Digital Stop Watch software created by Sergey Koshkin of Comfort Software Group. This Portable Stopwatch can be used to measure (in 0.01 second increments) time intervals in hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Simply press start to begin counting time and stop to end counting time. A lap button is also available for those that need to record lap time during a session. Recorded time can be saved to a file as well.
Everest Home Edition is a Portable and Free System Information Utility created by FinalWire Ltd (Lavalys). Much like SIW, it can be used to display information regarding a PC's system hardware without opening the case (useful for diagnostics and upgrading). Everest also offers memory benchmarking, hardware monitoring, Installed OS/Direct X info, and low level hardware information.
SpaceMonger is a Disk Space Organizer Tool created by Sixty-Five Software Inc. It can be used to quickly Map and Find Lost Disk Space. SpaceMonger works by displaying files as visual boxes porportional to the size of the file, making it easy to see which files are consuming the majority of your hard disk space. Files can be deleted directly from Space Monger. Space Monger v 1.4.0 is the only Portable and Free version.
TinyTask is a Free Macro Recorder created by Vista Software Inc. This small Portable Macro Recording Utility enables you to automate tasks by recording keyboard and mouse actions with the single click of a button. Those actions can then be saved, played back once, looped, or played back a set number of times. I use TinyTask Macro to automatically up repetitive skills for Online RPGs, instead of doing the grind.
Spec Check is a Free and Portable System Information Utility or tool created by Matthew Laverack. It can be used to display information about a computers hardware and software. Operating System Version/Service Pack/Serial/Product Key, Hard Drive/Motherboard/CPU/GPU/Network adapter info, Installed Codecs/Programs, and Running Services and much more can be displayed.
nPOPuk is Free and Portable Email Client founded by Greg Chapman, that appears to be a spinoff of nPOP. This small email client enables you to take your email with you. nPOPuk runs entirely from and stores everything back to a flash drive. Key features include portability, speed, filtering of email, auto checking of email at set intervals, and multiple account setup.
Audacity is an Open Source Free Audio Recorder and Sound Editor. It can be used to Record Internet Radio, Record Pandora Streaming Audio, Record from an attached Record Player, Tape Player, MP3 Player, Microphone or any other input device. If the sound or music can be played through your PC speakers, it can be recorded. Recorded Audio can be exported as a OGG, WAV, or MP3. Audacity's can also be used to edit audio, add effects and more. Best of all, it is available portable.
Streamosaur is a Free tool that can be used to Record Streaming Audio as WAV or MP3 files. It is one of only a few entirely Free Streaming Audio Recorders available. Aside from having the ability to record audio from any web stream or internet radio broadcast like Pandora, Streamosaur can record all audio from your sound card, microphone, input lines from external mixer, tape player, record player etc. Pretty much any audio played through your computer can be recorded and saved as an MP3 or WAV file.
BOOTICE is a Flash Drive Partitioning and Boot Sector Manipulation tool created by Pauly. It can be used to Partition and Format a USB Flash Drive from Windows. USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, and USB-HDD format options are available, along with the ability to mark a partition active "bootable". BOOTICE can also be used to backup, restore, or modify an MBR or PBR.
WinSCP is a Free Portable SFTP and FTP client for Windows. WinSCP's main focus is on safe and secure transferring of files between a local and a remote computers. Key features include; a graphical user interface, multilingual support, U3 support, SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH1 and SSH2 or FTP, batch scripting support, explorer interface and more.
Clipboardic is a nifty little tool created by Nirsoft, that can be used to keep track of your Clipboard activity. It works by automatically recording Clipboard data and saving it to a Windows clipboard file (.clp). If you need to recover clipboard history, you simply select the clipboard file, and Clipboardic will display the items or information that was gathered.
Windows Product Key Finder is a Free tool created by Over the Top Solutions that can be used to recover or reveal your potentially lost or forgotten Windows product key (CD Key). Upon launching Windows Product Key Finder, it will display the Windows Name, Serial Number/Product ID, Product Key, Registered Owner, and Registered Organization.
Rank Me is a Free page rank checking tool created by Mattlav Software. This portable page rank checker can be used to look up the page rank of any website or page by simply typing the URL and pressing the Get Google Page Rank button. RankMe does require .Net Framework 3.5 or later be installed on the PC. However the tool itself is self contained, (requiring no installation), hence I consider it portable.
Armagetron is another great Free TRON Game. Modeled in 3D, this TRON Clone uses an old school arcade approach to emulate the "Light Cycle" or Light Bike sequence of the movie Tron. Key Armagetron features include the ability to play multiplayer or against the computer, customizable arena, AI Bots, and a heads up display (HUD).
Portable Application Launcher is another great Tray Launcher. It is essentially a Portable Start Menu that can be used to quickly access frequently used programs, applications, games, etc that might reside on your USB device. Includes a built in browser, ability to scan for executable files, drag and drop files, and much more. This appears to be one of the most flexible and easy to use Portable Launcher out there.
TreeSize Free is a Size Organized Directory Tree Tool created by JAM Software. It can be used to figure out which folders and sub-folders are using the most space (find out what is taking up disk space), helping you find and reduce clutter on a drive. Additional options include the ability to expand to sub-folders, open in explorer, and drag and drop.
UltraSearch is a Freeware Fast File Search Tool created by JAM Software. It can be used to quickly find for files or folders only on local NTFS drives. Quoted "UltraSearch does not use a background process to build an index, it achieves its speed by working directly on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions."
ALLPlayer is a Free and Portable Media Player created by Arthur Majtczak. It can be used to Play ALL Media Types or formats. It also utilizes DirectX, includes a speech synthesizer, and houses it's own built in Media Conversion Tool. ALLPlayer has been noted as the most popular media player for watching movies with subtitles.
USB Port Blocker is a USB Port Blocking Software Tool created by Al Emran Tareq. It can be used to Disable or Block the USB Ports of a PC from being accessed by unauthorized users. USB Port Blocking can be turned On or Off via a password you set (rebooting is necessary). Useful when you do not want friends, students, employees, etc to have access to the usb ports of a given PC.
File and Folder Locker is a Free and Portable File and Folder Locking Tool "Encryption Tool" created by Al Emran Tareq. It can be used to encrypt and password protect files and or folders on your USB Flash Drive "Lock Files on USB" or any other NTFS Formatted Drive. The File and Folder Locker requires no installation on a PC. It can be run directly from the USB Device.
Driver Backup is a Free and Portable Driver Saving Tool offered by Dave Hope. It can be used to backup your hardware device drivers on a Windows PC, making it easy to reinstall those drivers in the event of a format and reinstall. This tool does appear to be portable, but requires Microsoft .Net 2.0 Framework to run.
Product Key Finder is a free and portable product key finder created by Dave Hope. It can be used to reveal CD Keys and serial license information for installed software by pulling it's values from registry. Product Key Finder is capable of retrieving more than 200 licenses of installed Microsoft Office or Windows products, and even non-Microsoft software, games, and applications.
SE Desktop Constructor is a Free desktop wallpaper, clock and, calendar tool created by SE-Soft that can be stored and run from a USB Flash Drive "UFD". SE-Desktop can be used to setup and automatically change your desktop background wallpaper, add desktop clock or calendar using presets and more.
Balabolka is a Portable and Free Text To Speech (TTS) Software. It can be used to read text on screen out loud using the voices of Microsoft's built in Speech API (SAPI). Balabolka can read the text from clipboard content, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files. On screen text can be read and then saved as WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA audio files.
ColorFOff is an Open Source Portable Desktop Color Picker. It can be used to get the HEX color value of any pixel color presented on your screen. Once running, simply left click in the label field and then drag your mouse pointer over any area on your desktop (while holding the left click button), and the HEX value of that pixel will be displayed. The Color Picker can be toggled to and from the system tray by clicking the tray icon.
WeatherMate is a tiny Free Weather Software that can be used to provide instant access to your weather forecast. Key features include; speaks forecast and current conditions, can display weather for multiple locations, minimizes to system tray, supports tens of thousands of locations worldwide, can easily be stored and run from a portable device.
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The AutoIt Self Extracting Exe is essentially a Portable version of the AutoIt Installer. AutoIt is a free scripting language similar to BASIC. Specifically designed for Windows GUI automation and general scripting, AutoIt is typically used to automate Windows tasks. Key features include; is tiny, is easy to learn, is stand alone, digitally signed, Unicode and x64 support, and will run on all Windows versions without required runtimes.
IObit Toolbox is a free portable collection of tools that can be used to diagnose, repair, and prevent PC problems. Known as "The Ultimate Toolkit for Fixing PC Problems" IObit Toolbox includes a Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Privacy Sweeper, Uninstaller, File Shredder, Smart RAM, Registry Defrag, Internet Booster, Startup Manager, WinFix, Disk Doctor, Shortcut Fixer, Undelete, IE Helper, Process Manager, Security Hole Scanner, Cloned Files Scanner, Empty Folder Scanner, Disk Explorer, System Information, and System Control.
DjoPad is a Free and Portable Text Editor. One unique feature of DjoPad is that it can be used to export text documents to commonly used formats such as DOC, PDF, ODT and HTML. Thats right, you could use it to turn your documents into web pages or text to PDF files. Other Key features include; multi-document and tabbed support, clipboard manager, find and replace, char format, par format, insert bullet list, insert borders and lines, insert images, set page format, and save to djo or djp proprietary formats.
Urban Terror is a free multiplayer first person shooter developed by FrozenSand, originally modified for the quake III platform, that utilizes ioquake3-code. The developers Motto for Urban Terror is "Where Quake meets reality". The game is entirely Free to download and play and is available zipped (requiring no setup installer) for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. So this First Person Shooter can be stored and run from a USB device.
Ptedit is a Free Portable Partition Table Editor created by Powerquest (Symantec). Ptedit32 can be used to quickly and easliy edit Partition Tables. For example it could be used to mark a partition active "toogle the bootable flag" from within Windows. This is done by changing the boot indicator from 00 to 80. This tool can be stored and run from a USB device.
Mac MakeUp is a Mac Address Changing Tool created by Marcello Gorlani. It enables you to change the MAC address "Spoof MAC Address" of any network interface controller "NIC" on your Windows PC. Very useful if you wish to be assigned a new IP on a cable network, as the IP is typically assigned to the MAC address of the NIC that is directly connected to the cable modem, and will try to reclaim that same IP so long as the MAC address is the same.
CopyTrans Manager is a Free iPod Manager or Alternative iTunes Manager created by WindSolutions LLC. CopyTrans can be used as an iTunes replacement for the iPhone, iPod, and iPod Touch. Use CopyTrans Manager to add or remove music and videos, edit song tags and artwork, create and organize iPhone playlists, or preview tracks with it's integrated player. The coolest feature is that "unlike iTunes", it can be taken with you (requires no installation).
CD Recovery Toolbox is a Freeware Tool that can be used to recover data from a damaged CD, DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disks. CD Recovery Toolbox is commonly used to restore information lost as a result from surface scratches, chips, spots, or a corrupt recording. Note that a disk must be detectable in the drive for this tool to work.
Core Temp is a simple Freeware portable program that can be used to accurately monitor CPU Core Temperatures. It displays the temperatures of each independent processor core, in real time. Core Temp receives readings via the DTS Digital Thermal Sensor (built into most modern processors), offering more efficient temperature readings. Additional features include overheat protection, and detailed processor/core related information.
Security Restore is a Freeware Portable Tool created by Rizone. It can be used to restore Windows default security settings. Security Restore can be very useful if you are encountering 0×80070005 error messages, or if you get "You don’t have permission to …" permission error messages when trying to install, update or run programs.
Rizone Memory Booster is a Portable and Free System Memory Optimization Tool created by Rizone. It works by safely asking Windows to clean up process workspace (through a Windows API call) and free up memory processes no longer need. The end result should be improved system speed and stability, and reduced memory leaks.
ViruClean Virus Cleaner is a Freeware Portable Virus and Malware Scanner and Cleaner created by Rizone. It is meant to be stored and run from a Flash Drive. ViruClean can be used to help detect and remove threats that may have been missed by your current Antivirus or Antimalware solution. Both 32 and 64 bit Anti Virus solutions are available.
Clicky Gone Portable is a Free and Portable Window Hiding Tool created by Alan Howie. It can be used to instantly hide select active windows or all open windows from view. For example, Clicky Gone might be used when someone walks in on you to quickly hide running programs or open browser windows. Features include Boss Key Mode, Toggle Hide/Show All Windows, and many other customizable key combinations.
File Bucket is a Freeware Portable File Copier or File Clone tool created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to copy a collection of folders or files from different locations to a singular location. Works great for things like creating music, picture, or video archives. File Bucket essentially provides the user with an explorer window and destination folder view all in one, making it easy to add remove folders/files before committing to actually copy/move/delete them.
PlayTime is a Play Time Calculator created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to calculate the total play time for most Movie and Music Files. Features include a drag and drop interface, total time of all files is calculated on the fly, file size is also displayed, information is exportable as a CSV file. PlayTime is a lifesaver for those moments when you need to know how long that video/song or media collection is going to take to play.
Trout is a Portable and Simple Audio Player created by Skwire Empire. It can be used as a simple software audio player to play AIFF, AIF, AIFC, MP1, MP2, MP3, OGA, OGG, WAV, MO3, XM, MOD, S3M, IT, MTM files. It can also play FLAC, WMA, WMP, WMV, ASF, MID, MIDI, RMI, KAR, WV, WVC, AAC, MP4, M4A, M4B, M4P, APE, AC3, SPX, TTA, OFR, MPC, ALAC with plugins. Simply load your files and let it play.
Size Matters is a Free and Portable File Size Checking Tool created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to track a list of files and check their file sizes. Usage is simple, just drag and drop a directory or file onto the tool, and it will begin to calculate each file size. Information can also be exported to a CSV file for further use.
The Emsisoft Emergency USB is a very powerful and handy Free Scanner to bring with you on a USB Key. It can be used to detect and remove Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Dialers, Keyloggers and other malign programs. Created by Emsi Software, this tool comes with Emsisoft a-squared Free, Emsisoft Commandline Scanner, Emsisoft Anti-Malware, Emsisoft Anti-Dialer, Emsisoft HiJackFree and Mamutu.
The World Browser is a Free Portable Web Browser created by Phoenix Studio. It can be used as a replacement Tiny, Fast, and Secure Web Browser. Key features include; private browsing, optimized for high speed with minimal resource usage, anti crash and freeze framework, built in download manager, multilingual, skinnable, and much more.
The Powder Toy Physics Simulator Game is a small and fun Game created by unaligned.org and currently offered by Geeks3D. Physics and Chemistry students might use it to learn chemistry and physics by performing experiment simulations without the risk of destroying a real lab. It has been said that once you begin to play, you can spend hours on Powder Toy.
SharePod is a Free and Portable iPod Manager that can be used to manage the contents of your iPod. For example you can use it to Copy music and videos from your iPod to PC (extract music from ipod) and vice versa. You can also use SharePod to edit your playlist, backup your iPod, and much more. The tool supports drag and drop and is very easy to use, making for an excellent Freeware iPod Manager.
RouterPassView is a Portable Router Password Recovery Tool created by NirSoft. It works by attempting to find your Login Password and or Wireless Keys from your backup router configuration file. Note that you must have a backup configuration file for RouterPassView to read, and not every router configuration file is supported, however I have found that most of the popular older Routers are.
Free Hide IP is a tool created by CoolwareMax. It can be used to hide your real IP address and secure or anonymize your IP address for web surfing, email, forum activity etc, all with a single click. Although not a portable application by default as it requires installation, Free Hide IP makes for a great tool to carry on a portable device.
Speccy is a Portable System Information Tool created by Piriform Ltd. It quickly displays detailed specifics related to the System Hardware and the Operating System installed on any PC. Useful when performing upgrades, diagnostics, or comparing computer systems. Details related to CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Video Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Sound Cards, and Operating Systems are displayed.
Speccy can also estimate the temperature of the CPU and Video Card, for quick reference to any cooling problems.
IObit Uninstaller is a Portable Free Software Uninstaller created by IObit. It can be used to quickly and easily uninstall or Remove Installed Programs and Browser Toolbars from your PC. Designed as a stand alone replacement for the built in "Windows Add or Remove Programs" tool, IObit Uninstaller can help you force removal of stubborn programs and even includes a feature to remove those pesky browser toolbars.
Get My IP is a Portable and Free IP Address Retrieval Tool. It can be used to display your Local Internal (LAN) IP Address as well as your Internet External (WAN) IP Address. Very useful if you host games or share applications via a LAN or over the Internet and need quick reference to both internal and External IP Addresses for Port forwarding etc.
Free IP scanner is a Free and Quick IP scanner and port scanner created by Eusing. It can be used to monitor your local network. It works by pinging each IP address to see if it is alive, and if so, resolves the "NetBIOS Info" workgroup name, hostname, user, mac address, and ports. This data can then be exported as a text file. Configurable Port Scanning options are also available.
VideoCacheView is a Free Portable Video Tool created by NirSoft. After watching a video online, you might want to save the video file and watch it offline at a later point in time. VideoCacheView can be used to do just that. Play, Save, Copy, or Extract Videos stored in your Web Browser Cache after viewing or watching them online. The tool will scan the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla based Web browsers like Firefox.
gPodder is a Free and Portable Podcast Downloader (Aggregator) created by Thomas Perl. It can be used to keep track of and download free "Podcasts" from the Internet. Downloaded Podcasts are stored in the downloads folder and can be watched whenever you choose. Options are available to add subscriptions, check for new podcast episode updates, Podcast Player, and much more.
Reprofiler is a Profile Link Repair Tool created by IWR Consultancy. It can be used to quickly view, set, manage, or repair user profile associations and properties. Options include the ability to assign folders, erase data, detach profiles, and view User Profile Information (Properties). Reprofiler is a portable application, so it can be taken with you on a USB Flash Drive.
Make your Non Portable Apps Portable: JauntePE is a Freeware tool created by Redllar that can be used to essentially Make Portable Apps. It works by attempting to convert conventional applications into portable applications that can be taken with you and used on any PC. JauntePE is easy to work with, and contains help menus for just about everything.
Disk Cleaner is a Portable and Free Disk Cleaning Tool created by R.J. Moerland. It can be used to free up disk space occupied by temporary files in an attempt to help keep your PC clean and free of clutter. Use Disk Cleaner to Clear Browser History, Clear Browser Cache, Remove Browser Cookies, Clear Recent Documents, Empty Recycle Bin, and Remove Temp Files.
Tonido is a Free Personal Web Application Server. This Intuitive Tool enables you to access and share your locally stored content directly through a web browser. It's your own portable server for sharing files and photos and more. For example, Tonido can be used to host your own blog, share torrents, host photo albums, listen to music or Mp3's from anywhere, backup files from one PC to another, etc.
Commands In Demand is a Portable Windows Commands Shortcut Tool created by Vasilis Stamatopoulos. It can be used to quickly access commonly used essential Windows Commands and Settings via easy to use structured navigation. Quickly access over 120 different Windows Commands, Features, and Settings that are normally buried within Windows, all from one simple tool.
Clock is a Freeware Alarm or Notification Clock created by Max2k. You can choose between an analog or digital clock and options are set via a right click menu. Features include the ability to set a notification or alarm time, set a text message to display in a window or play any .wav or .mp3 sound file at the set alarm time. Use it to remind you of important events, meetings, etc. Neat, portable, and easy!
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GUID Generator is a Freeware Portable tool created by Max2k. It can be used to create "Globally Unique Identifiers" (GUID) also known as Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID). GUIDs are commonly used as database keys, component identifiers by software developers whenever a unique identifier is required.
OEMLogo is a Freeware OEM information and OEM Logo editing tool created by Octavian Merches. It can be used to View, modify, or delete the OEM information of Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP Operating Systems. Key features include the ability to change OEM Logo, Manufacturer information, Model, and Support Information.
MaxRAMFree is a Free Memory Defragmenter Tool created by Octavian Merches that can be used to defragment your RAM (Free up RAM) either manually or automatically. Features include an AutoFree option which allows the user to choose how much RAM to defragment and at what interval in minutes or at a Free Memory percentage, minimize to taskbar option, and the ability to start with Windows.
RamBooster is a Free RAM Booster created by J.Pajula. It can be used to "Free Up RAM" or Clean or Clear RAM by continuously monitoring the amount of Free RAM (Random Access Memory) in your system. If the amount of Free RAM drops below the target, RamBooster can set to optimize your RAM automatically through the auto optimization option, or you can manually elect to free more Memory, whenever you want.
MemTest is a Free Memory Tester that runs in Windows. Created by HCI Design MemTest can be used as a RAM reliability tester to ensure your system memory is working properly. This Memory Testing Tool works by running tests to see if your computer is able store and retrieve data from memory accurately. If the Memory Test displays errors, you might have defective Memory.
HeidiSQL offers a Portable Freeware SQL Database Manager. A very useful Remote SQL Software tool for users who want to remotely manage their MySQL Databases from any PC. Browse databases, manage tables, run queries, execute scripts, etc. Pretty much everything you can do with serverside SQL managers like phpMyAdmin, can be done remotely and portably with HeidiSQL.
SqlDbx is a Stand Alone Free SQL Manager or SQL Frontend created by ACS Technologies, inc. A database management tool (SQL IDE) that provides a means to manage your SQL databases to run queries, execute scripts and browse database objects. SqlDbx is a portable SQL Database Editor that requires no installation. It is Free for non-commercial use.
Rapid Typing is a Freeware Typing Speed Test Software created by Typing Tutor Labs. This Keyboard Training Tool can be used to test and sharpen your typing skills or simply learn to type. Features include the ability to improve your typing skills through a series of included lessons, a visual keyboard reference is displayed on screen, along with test keys to type in sequence. Rapid Typing makes it fun to learn to type quickly and properly.
HouseCall is a Free Portable Antivirus Software created by Trend Micro. It can be used for detection and removal of potential viruses, trojans, worms, and malware that might reside on your PC. This appears to be a stand alone Free Antivirus Tool that installs temp files during it's launch and removes them on exit. It also should not interfere with any other Antivirus or Antimalware software that may be installed on your Computer.
CloneSpy is a Freeware Tool that can be used to "Find and Remove Duplicate Files", clean your computer of unnecessary clutter, and free up drive space. Created by Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, CloneSpy can detect and list files that are either exact duplicates, have same file name, have same size, or are zero bytes long. Once a scan is completed, CloneSpy can be used to delete redundant files, move redundant files to a specific folder, export a list of all equal files without removing any files and more.
Simple Port Forwarding is a Freeware Portable Network Routing Tool created by PCWinTech. It can be used to control Router Port Forwarding options directly from the tool. Simple Port Forwarding supports the most popular routers on the market. It also has built in port setting options for many P2P programs, games and other commonly used applications, virtually eliminating the need to research which ports need to be forwarded.
DbxConv is a simple DBX to MBOX email file converter created by Ulrich Krebs. It enables it's user to convert (DBX) Microsoft Windows Outlook Express Mail to (MBOX) Apple Mail format or the (EML) format used in Windows Live Mail, Apple Quick Mail Pro etc. DbxConv must be run from a command line, but can be stored and run from a Portable device. See the readme and or authors site for usage info.
Back4Sure is a Portable and Free File Backup Software created by Ulrich Krebs. It offers it's user the ability to quickly backup files, directories, or entire drive contents with ease. Additional features include the ability to compress the backup in Zip or 7z format, include or exclude by filter, cleanup, and process logging.
SniffPass is network password Sniffer created by NirSoft. A great tool to have handy for recovering lost Web, FTP, Email passwords. SniffPass captures usernames, passwords, port number remote address and more for communications that occur on your network. Supports capturing via POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP protocols. Example Usage: Start SniffPass and then go send and receive email. Usernames, passwords etc used for accessing the email accounts are displayed instantly.
MPlayer WW is a Portable Freeware Media Player created by William Wang. Based on MPlayer, this Portable movie and audio player supports a multitude of playback formats and is very easy to use. Features include Autoplay next file, supports Winamp DSP plugins, MPEG 1, 2, 4 ( DivX), H.264, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC support without installing additional codecs, can be used as a Free DivX Player, and more.
HWinfo32 is a System Hardware Information and Diagnostics Tool for Windows. Created by Martin Malik, this tool can be used to display detailed information about a computers hardware. HWinfo32 offers many of the same features found in SIW or AIDA32 along with benchmarking, exportable detailed reports etc. A great Portable System Info Utility to add to your collection.
AppCrashView is a Freeware Portable Utility created by NirSoft that can be used to view the crash details of all applications that have crashed on your Windows PC. The crash information is pulled from Windows Error Reporting. A must have Portable Freeware for troubleshooting Computer system crashes.
InstantMask is a Free Background Removing Tool created by Clipping Path Studio. It can be used to remove the background from a picture or photo quickly and easily. Simply trace inside the image you want to keep with the green crayon, and then trace just outside of the image with the red crayon, click preview and the tool will clip the background.
NetRouteView is a Portable Network Route Viewer for Windows. Created by NirSoft, it lists the currently active routes on your network. NetRouteView can display destination, mask, gateway, interface IP address, metric value, type, protocol, age, interface name, MAC address and more. Additional features include the ability to add new routes, and modify or delete existing routes.
Recover Passwords from Opera; OperaPassView is a Freeware Portable Opera Password Viewer created by NirSoft. As the name suggests, it can be used to View or Recover Login Passwords for Websites Stored in the Opera Web Browser. OperaPassView works by decrypting the information stored in the wand.dat file and displays the list of all Web site passwords stored within the file.
Delete Flash Cookie Files; FlashCookiesView is a Portable Freeware Flash Cookie Viewer, Flash Cookie Deletion utility created by NirSoft. FlashCookiesView will display and allow you to delete hidden Flash Cookies (Flash Cookie Files) that are typically used for tracking purposes and stored by your Web browser.
AVG Rescue CD (for USB Sticks) is a "portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution". Created by AVG, the USB Flash Drive version offers a stand alone bootable AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, and System Recovery Solution. The AVG Rescue USB enables you to scan for and fully remove infections.
2X-Client Portable is a Remote Desktop Client that can be used to connect to your Remote Desktop Servers. The Portable 2X-Client created by Portableapps is available on the Official 2X site. Note that only the Client is Portable and you still need Remote Desktop Server Software such as Microsoft Remote Desktop, 2X-Application Server host software or other configured on any Computers you wish to remotely connect to. Also Freeware, 2X-Application Server "Virtual Desktop Server" makes for a great alternative to Remote Desktop.
Install Windows from USB. WinToFlash, created by Novicorp, is a tool that can be used to copy your existing Windows XP, 2003, 2008, WinPE, or Windows 7 CD/DVD Install Disk to a USB Flash Drive. Upon completion, you should be able to Install Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, or 7 using a USB Flash Drive (Windows Live USB Installer). Very useful if you own a Netbook or Notebook PC that can boot from USB but does not have an optical drive.
Predator is a Freeware PC Locking Tool created by Richard Goutorbe. It can be used to securely lock your computer "while you're away", protecting it from prying eyes. Once Predator has been installed on your PC and your USB Key prepared, simply remove your Flash Drive to lock the computer. The computer can be be unlocked by re-inserting the Flash Drive and typing the password you set to unlock it. Predator will also log all USB login attempts, so you can see if anyone has been trying to get into your PC.
Eraser is a file destruction tool allows you to completely delete or erase sensitive data from your hard drive, flash drive or other attached disk in an attempt to make the file data unrecoverable. This File Eraser works by overwriting data several times with select patterns. One of six data destruction methods can be used. Additional features include a scheduler and ability to erase remnant data from existing empty space on a drive. This Portable Secure Data Removal Tool can be stored and run from a USB Device.
Piskvorky is simply a Portable Tic Tac Toe like game created by Lucersoft. Piskvorky also known as Gomoku is a two player (you against the computer) strategic game that works much like Tic Tac Toe, but with a slight twist. The player must create an uninterrupted series of five X's or O's in a row (lengthwise, vertical or horizontal) instead of three, making for a much tougher challenge.
NeoRouter Free Portable is a Freeware Remote Desktop Client created by NeoRouter Inc. It can be used for Remote Desktop, Folder Sharing, Printer Sharing, Chat and more. It supports Windows, Linux, and Mac computers. NeoRouter Free is the Server software provides the "Virtual Private Network (VPN)" and will need to be installed on computers that you will be connecting to. NeoRouter Free Portable is the client you will use to connect to those machines.
USB Encryption : USB Safeguard is a Freeware Encryption tool for Flash Drives. It can be used to password protect any files that reside on your USB Flash Drive. Simply create a password and then drag and drop files from your Flash Drive into the Window. To gain access the encrypted files, simply re-enter your password.
Advanced Renamer is a Freeware Portable File and Folder Renaming utility created by Kim Jensen. It can be used to batch rename multiple files and or folders at once. Advanced Renamer features undo capability, MP3 and Tag Rename, EXIF Rename, and a multitude of other file renaming methods. It also incorporates a real time preview of what will be renamed.
SepPDF is a Freeware Portable PDF Splitter created by ForestH. This PDF File Splitter can be used to separate or split a PDF file containing multiple pages into individualized single PDF files for each page. You can also select the page range you wish to split, where to save the files, and adjust the time stamp.
Remove Fake Antivirus is a Free and Portable utility created by Olzen of Free of Virus. The tool can be used to remove some of the most common Rogue Antivirus Software from your PC. There are many fake Antivirus programs in circulation that contain viruses, trojans and malware. Some even attempt to lure the end user into purchasing a Fake AntiVirus Removal product.
Keynote NF is a Free Portable Notebook that might also be used as a Portable Diary. Based on the original Keynote with New Features, this portable Notebook utilizes a RichText editor, built in search, and your Notes can be encrypted under file > properties using IDEA or Blowfish encryption methods. Other key features include: View/Tree check boxes on children of selected nodes, Show/Hide nodes, Unicode compliant, Multilingual support, and more.
TagScanner is a Freeware Portable Tool created by Sergey Serkov that can be used to manage your music collection. It enables it's user to rename music files based on tag information, generate tag information from file or folder names, import tag information from an online databases like freedb or Amazon, and much more. TagScanner Supports ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata and also includes it's own built in media player.
Golden Rules Organizer is a Free and Portable Personal Information Manager created by Michael Gvirtzman. It is a Personal organizer you can use to manage your daily or weekly tasks, projects, activities, contacts, schedules, plans and more. It could also be used as a personal diary or to simply keep notes in an ordered structure.
FastCopy is a Free and Portable File Copying Software that can be used to synchronize and copy files and entire directory structures from a source to a destination. Additional features include copying files without overwrite, copy if file is newer, delete source, and overwrite all. The tool uses load balancing techniques to minimize system load during the file moving process.
Foobar2000 is a small Portable freeware audio player created by Peter Pawlowski that supports the playback of many audio formats. Supported audio formats include MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, and SND. More media formats are supported by installing additional components.
XMedia Recode is a Portable Freeware Video and Audio Converter created by Sebastian Dörfler. It can be used to convert audio and video formats from one format to another. Very useful if you want to be able to play your audio and video files on multiple devices like iPod, iPhone, Zune, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc in a media format that those devices support.
Rapid Environment Editor is a Freeware Windows Environment Variables Editor created by Oleg Danilov. Available in a portable version, this environment editor enables you to edit your environmental variables (name, type, path, etc) via an easy to use graphical underlying interface that presents system and user variable paths in a tree like fashion.
DriveSort is a Freeware Portable Application created by l.madhavan. It can be used to present the contents of a drive or directory by filesize – largest files first or date – newest files first. Very useful for finding the files that are taking up the most space or that have been recently created. DriveSort will display up to the top 100 results.
SE-MediaPlayer is a Freeware Media Player offered by SE-SOFT. This classic style Multi Media Player supports all modern multimedia formats. It includes an embedded media library, features built in audio and video codecs management, can be minimized to the system tray, offers various skinned compact modes, is multilingual, and is available in a portable version.
Free Address Book is a Portable Freeware Personal Information Manager that can be used to help you organize your contacts. Store addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, company names, country, city, state, website addresses, and email addresses of your associates and contacts. Account numbers, Tax numbers and registration numbers can also be stored for business clients or employees. Custom fields can easily be created as well.
The resulting Address Book entries can be searched using the tool and even printed.
PortableApps Suite is a Portable Applications Suite offered by Rare Ideas LLC. The suite consists of a complete collection of portable software including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader,minesweeper game, and also utilizes a Portable Launcher to help keep things organized.
WinSpy++ is a Free Tool that can be used to find the advanced properties of a Window. Offered by Catch22, it is a handy programmer's utility to have on a Portable USB drive and can display the following; Control handle, Window class and name, Window procedure address, Window styles, Window class information, Window properties, Child and sibling window relationships, and Scrollbar position.
WebDeling is a Free and Portable File Sharing tool created by Aquadasoft. This File Sharing Application utilizes a simple drag and drop interface. Just drag and drop the files you want to share onto the window and your files are available from a web browser by typing the IP address of the local computer hosting the files.
LAN Messenger is a Freeware Portable Messenger created by L. Madhavan that can be used across a local area network for internal Office Communication. Key features include; instant messaging, public global chat, ability to save chat logs, clear chat window, buzz a client, and more. If you experience problems with chat clients unable to see one another, make sure LAN Messenger is allowed it to communicate through any existing firewall.
Defender Element is a Free Portable Tower Defense type Game offered by Staff 32003 Productions. A Free Strategy Game, where the goal is to reinforce the pathway to your castle in an effort to keep enemies from invading your castle. During gameplay, symbolic reinforcements aka: knights, archers, mages, and catapults are purchased with coins to use in your defense. These reinforcements can be sold later at reduced cost and replaced with upgraded units.
ExamDiff is a Portable and Free File Comparison Tool offered by PrestoSoft that can be used to compare files to see if they are identical. ExamDiff is a Freeware Visual File Comparing application that features browse and drag and drop file comparison, can automatically detect file changes, and provides plenty of customizable display options.
AutoRun Settings is a Free and Portable tool created by Uwe Sieber that allows a user to enable autorun and disable autoruns on the fly. The tool effectively allows you to enable or disable autorun notifications when a drive is attached. Options include selection for all users or current user, drive type selection, individual drive letter selection, and the ability to disable autorun.inf.
Crypto Hash Calculator is a Free and Portable Hash Checksum Calculator created by GAG [Jaguar]. It can be used to get the hash of a file and or verify a checksum. Crypto Hash Calculator supports MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA, SSL3, MAC and, HMAC algorithms. It can also be used to create or take the hash of a text string. Very nice tool to have with for those times when you need to check the hash of a file.
X-xChat is another great Free Portable IRC Chat Client offered by winPenPack. X-xChat is essentially based on the unofficial XChat with a portable wrapper. Aside from being portable, X-xChat offers two additional features not found in most other IRC Chat Clients; colored nicknames and alignment by text as opposed to alignment by nicks. These features are carried down by X-Chat.
X-Pidgin is another great Free Portable Instant Messenger Client (based on Pidgin) offered by winPenPack. Pidgin is instant messaging software that enables you to be logged into a variety of chat networks simultaneously. This Portable Chat Software allows you to instantly chat with your friends and family regardless of what chat client they prefer to use.
SpeedCrunch is a Free Portable Calculator. Simply type the expression you want to calculate using your keyboard or point and click the buttons using your mouse (and press Enter for continuation). Expressions and calculated results are then displayed sequentially in the output Window for reference and can be copied and pasted elsewhere. Other features include; Syntax Highlighting, Unlimited Variables, Auto Completion, Smart Correction, 50 Decimal Places, Recall up to 100 stored Expressions, Multiple Keyboard Shortcuts.
nPOP is a Portable and Free Email Client created by Nakashima Tomoaki. This tiny Free Email Software program allows you to send and receive Email while on the go. nPOP stores your Mail setup, address book and messages back to your flash drive. nPOP can also be used to manage and synchronize the inbox on your server. For example, you can delete mail from the Email Server directly through nPOP. Other features include auto checking email at user selectable intervals, multiple account setup and spam filtering.
SRWare Iron is a Portable Web Browser based on the extremely fast Google Chrome Browser (Chromium) source code. It is essentially the same, with a singular focus on user privacy. The Iron Portable Web Browser removes unique user client ID reporting, disables search suggestions, disables url tracker, disables Google updates and crash reporting features.
Rename Master is a Portable and Free Multiple File Renaming Tool. Created by JoeJoeSoft, Rename Master can rename multiple files (Batch Rename many files) within seconds. Features include the ability to replace, append or remove parts of the filename of all selected files. In addition advanced features allow for MP3 tag, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tag renaming.
24×24 Free Button Icons is simply a compilation of Freeware icons created by Aha-Soft that can be used for personal or commercial use (see the readme in the zip for more info). Although not a portable app, you never know when these Icons might come in handy for an application or website. This is a nice simple set of icons that you can bring with you on your USB device and use when the time arises.
Gios PDF Splitter and Merger is a Portable and Free PDF tool created by Paolo Gios. It can be used to merge PDF files or split PDF files quickly and easily. Additional features include creating PDF from jpg images, allowing you to create PDF files from scanned documents, pages or images that have been scanned and saved as jpg.
Drive Image XML is Free Backup Software created by Runtime Software. This portable backup utility can be used to create a backup image of a partition or logical drive or (clone) copy directly from one drive to another. Other features include creating "hot images" from drives currently in use, schedule automatic backups, and restore backup images to the same or different drive without needing to reboot.
Allway Sync n Go is a Free File Backup and Synchronization Software Tool. This Portable App can be used to synchronize file and folder data between desktop computers, laptops, USB devices etc. Features include the ability to analyze and sync data within two selected paths, sync direction, multiple jobs, sync multiple folders and, multilingual support.
Dirhtml is a Free Portable App that can be used to create a web navigational index file (index.html) of all the files in a folder and it's subfolder tree. This index.html generator is a great asset for those looking to sort and present a directory of files for web navigation and sharing purposes. File names, file types, and output html name and title can be specified.
Alt Commander is a Portable and Free File Manager for Windows. This Freeware File Manager could be used as a replacement Windows File Manager. Key features include a dual pane explorer, internal zip tool, internal image viewer, built in FTP client, file comparison, multi rename tool, archive file navigation and much more.
Celestia Portable is a portable version (wrapper) of the popular Celestia interactive space simulator program. Unlike most Planetarium software, Celestia enables you to explore the solar system and universe in three dimensions. Addons are available from the Celestia Motherlode allowing you to customize to suite your needs.
NexusImage is a Free Image Viewer created by JungHoon Noh (xiles). This Portable Image Viewer can be used to display JPEG, Bitmap, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, WMF, and EMF image formats. The selected image appears in the preview window (along with directory name, image size and capacity). The side panel displays all additional images available from the current directory.
NexusFont is a Free font manager for Windows. This Font Manager provides a way to view, compare, and completely manage your fonts. It can be used to compare many font styles in one window, rename fonts, locate duplicate fonts, install or uninstall fonts from windows, print fonts, export font images and much more. The tool is multilingual an supports many common languages.
NexusFile is a Portable File Manager for Windows (Replacement Windows File Manager). Developed by JungHoon Noh (xiles), NexusFile can be used to explore and manage your files quickly. A few features include Batch Rename, Dual Panes, Unicode, FTP Client, Archives, Skin, Join/Split, Shred Files, Disk Cleanup, Compare Folders, Smart Address Bar, Tabs, Multi-Language support.
XN Resource Editor is a portable and Free Resource Editor and PE module explorer. This Res Editor (Resource Hacker) is an entirely portable application that can be used to view and edit .RES resource files and .EXE or .DLL PE modules. XN Resource Editor works with Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
IgorWare Hasher is a Free and Portable SHA-1, MD5 and CRC32 Hash Creator or Hash Generator for Windows. The tool can be used to generate a checksum for a single file and verify file integrity by using verification files (.sha, .md5 and .sfv). Hasher automatically attempts to load verification data when found. The Hash tool comes in a 32 and 64 bit version.
File Splitter is a Free File Splitter and File Joiner. Much Like HJSplit, this tool can be used to split big files into multiple (file chunks) and to merge those split chunks back into a singular file. This allows a user to send smaller pieces of a large file to recipients in portions that are small enough to send via email or other methods that restrict file size. One cool feature of File Splitter is that it offers adjustable chunk size.
HJSplit is both a Free File Splitter and File Joiner in one. This utility makes Splitting and Joining Files Simple! Created by Freebyte, this portable software can be used to Split large files into smaller chunks (.001, .002, .003 etc) so that they may be sent via email or other methods that impose file size limits for transmitting files. HJSplit can even split files larger than 10GB and checksums can be created. Split files can then be rejoined using HJJoin tool (also included) with HJSplit.
Xinorbis is a Portable hard disk analyzer created by Paul alan freshney. This Free Disk Analysis tool can be used to display detailed information about the contents of a hard disk, portable drive, network drive or directory. Disk structure, contents, and file composition are viewable and reportable. Reports can be exported in HTML, XML, ASCII and, CSV formats and compared. Although not a small utility, Xinorbis includes portable mode support and can be stored and run entirely from a USB device.
File Joiner is a Free and Portable tool that can be used to join multiple files into one single file. Commonly used to join split files ending with .001, .002,.003 extensions that may have been downloaded as individual files, but make up part of a single program (for example; parts of an AVI file that was too large to upload as a single file). File Joiner will help you join those split files back into one single file that can then be executed for it's intended purpose.
IObit Security 360 is a Free Malware and Spyware removal tool created by IObit. It can be used to detect and remove bots, worms, spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, and hijackers. IS360 is acclaimed to be the fastest Malware and Spyware scanner on the market. However, the most important feature is that it ships with an IS360 Portable Creator, enabling you to create a portable version of the Scanner to take with you on a USB device.
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool is a freely downloadable Virus Removal Tool. Although it does not provide real time protection from Viruses and can not stop a threat from entering your system, this Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool can be used scan for, disinfect, and remove existing Viruses or infections that may currently reside on your PC.
IndexYourFiles is a lightening fast Portable File Indexer and File Search Tool. It can be used to search through all of the files and folders on your Windows PC. Additionally, local and network drive indexing and search is supported. Size, date and extension name search options are available. The resulting files from a Search can be viewed, copied, moved, deleted, dragged to other locations, or the containing folder opened for further viewing.
SE-RssTools is a Free and Portable RSS Feed Reader and Editor offered by SE-Soft. The Portable RSS Reader enables you to have access to feeds while on the move. Additional options include the ability to search and manage your RSS feeds and create your own RSS feeds without knowledge of XML format and structure. Supports RSS, RDF, Atom and iTunes Podcast feed formats. Comes with it's own built in Browser to view the complete article.
Wireshark is a Free and Portable Network Protocol Analyzer. It can be used to capture and examine network traffic (packet data) from a live running network. Cool options such as display filters are available to help isolate the network traffic sections you wish to monitor. If you have ever needed to find out exactly what information is being sent to and from your computer and where this information is being sent to or coming from on a network or over the internet, you need Wireshark.
IPInfoOffline is a Free Portable Software that allows you to view detailed information about IP addresses, without connecting to a server on the net. Created by Nirsoft, IPInfoOffline queries a built in database containing information about each IP address. IP block range, Organization, Assigned Date, Country Name, and Country Code are displayed. This information can then be copied to a clipboard, or saved to a xml, html, csv or text file for future reference.
K-Meleon is a Free and Portable Web Browser that can be run portably from USB. Based on the Gecko Engine created and used by Mozilla Firefox, the Portable K-Meleon Web Browser is lightweight and extremely fast. It is also skinnable, and can be fully customized to suite your needs. Basic essentials function out of the box and third party plugins can be added to enhance or add functionality.
BlackLight is a Free RootKit Eliminator offered by F-Secure Corporation. BlackLight is stand alone (portable) and can detect files, folders and other processes that might be hidden from the user and or programs and can then proceed to clean and remove them. Additionally, BlackLight can detect and remove some types of hidden malware by renaming the malware.
LicenseCrawler is a Portable and Free Product Key Finder that can be used to scan your System Registry to find Serial Numbers, License Numbers, and Product Keys for registered software installed on your machine. For example LicenseCrawler could be used to recover or reveal your Windows product key or serial numbers for installed software like Office or even non Microsoft products and applications such as Nero.
MACAddressView is a Portable and Free MAC Address Tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to Lookup MAC Addresses and find MAC Address Information for network adapters. Information such as company details (company name, address, and country) by the MAC address of the product. MACAddressView utilizes it's own internal MAC addresses database to display the information about the MAC Address.
Screen Clipper is a Free and Portable Screenshot Capturing Tool. It can be used to capture or clip any area of your desktop screen. Once launched, you simply drag the window to the area you want to capture, set the size of the area to clip and then click the check-mark to take the screenshot.
Lost Ship V4 is a Portable and Free Space Shooter Game. Featuring an adrenaline pumping, fast paced, ship shooting game environment of pure survival. You strive to survive by defending yourself from and conquering multiple enemies. At the end of each journey path, you will find yourself up against a very powerful Boss or leader.
NFReader is a Free and Portable RSS Feed Reader. This Feed Reader is super easy to manage and can be used to read RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. Feeds can be imported or exported to and from OPML files. Settings are adjustable for Feed update frequency, Notification options, Fonts, Highlighting and more. NFReader remains in the Windows taskbar once minimized for ease of access.
SteganoG is a Portable Application that allows you to hide information or store confidential data in a bitmap image file. The image is used to safe guard your data by appearing as just an image to the viewer. Data stored in the bitmap image is compressed, encrypted and password protected. The SteganoG tool can be used to both hide and to extract the data or information from the image. The BMP image is simply used as a non conspicuous carrier and storage container for your data.
eToolz is a Free Portable Software that contains many essential network tools. Authors Quote "The Most Important Network Tools in One Application". eToolz contains networking tools like a Ping Tool, Traceroute Tool, DNS Lookup Tool, Whois Tool, Pagerank Checker, Mail Checker, HTTP Header Information Checker and much more. A tiny and super useful Portable Application worth adding to anyone's collection.
SpyDLLRemover is a Portable Spyware Remover created by SecurityXploded, that can be used to Detect Spyware and then Remove or Delete Spyware from a Windows System. This Spyware Scanner is able to locate hidden Rootkit processes and suspcious injected DLLs. Threatlevels are displayed in the scan results and the user can choose which Spyware DLL items to remove.
Cameo Shell is a neat BlackBox Window Manager for Windows. Basically, it is an open source portable desktop environment that can be used in place of Windows Explorer. But it's more than just that. The full version of Cameo includes many Open Source Portable Applications that can be run from this new shell. Cameo Shell is based on a modified (BlackBox) bbLean shell, offering a more Linux like style, look and feel.
Windows Enabler is a Free Portable Tool that enables it's user to Enable Grayed Out Buttons. If you have ever needed to force an option in Windows but can't because the option is grayed out, this tool might help you. Windows Enabler can help enable disabled window controls, enable tick boxes, buttons and other controls that are normally disabled. The Enabler tool runs in the system tray and can be turned on or off by simply clicking it's icon.
Uk's Kalender is a simple Portable Calendar and Event Reminder. It can of course be used to remind you of important events, Birthdays, to do lists and daily tasks. The Calendar utilizes it's own database. Key features include; repeating events, option to set event duration, forwarn time with snooze function, selectable icons, auto insertion of Holidays. Weekly, Monthly and Yearly view options are available.
AppRemover is a Portable Application that can quickly and easily completely remove Antivirus and AntiSpyware programs and the traces they leave behind. It can also remove Antivirus and AntiSpyware software that previously failed to fully uninstall. Very useful tool when you need to fully remove all other security software before attempting to install a new Antivirus or AntiSpyware software product.
AnyFound is a Free Photo Recovery Software Tool that can be used to Recover lost Photos, Pictures and Images that may have been accidentally deleted or even intentionally deleted. AnyFound Photo Recovery can not only be used to recover lost images, pictures and photos from Hard Disks, it will also recover deleted items from removable media such as a USB device or MicroSD card.
Drive Manager is a Free Stand Alone Portable Drive Info Utility. It can be used to display, identify and manage your Hard Drives, CD/DVD Drives, Removable USB Flash Drives, and USB Hard Drives. From Capacity and firmware revision to serial number and product ID, Just about everything you need to know about your drives is available. Other features include the ability to unhide or hide drives, map drives, create remove or substitute drive letters and much more.
Shrink Pic is a Free Picture Resizing Tool that allows you to (Shrink Pictures) and Resize Pictures. Most pictures taken with digital cameras are too large in both capacity and image dimensions to send via email or post on a website, blog or forum. With Shrink Pic, you can shrink and resize your photos via a drag and drop process. This tool can take JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF, and GIF images and export them as JPG, BMP or PNG image files. Adjustable Compression levels allow you to create pictures ranging from 15KB to 450KB in capacity.
SpaceSniffer is a Free Portable App that can be used to Find Lost Disk Space. It works by displaying a layered disk map that shows how much space files, folders and programs are taking up on the select drive. You can then use this information to determine which programs are taking up the most disk space. The information is processed and displayed in real time.
Norman Malware Cleaner is just as the name states, a Portable Malware Cleaner that can be stored and run directly from a USB Flash Drive or other portable device. The FREE Antimalware software can be used to detect, kill and remove specific (malware) malicious software. Norman is a world leader and pioneer in proactive content security solutions and forensics malware tools. Norman Malware Cleaner is just one of their Free offerings.
Safe Calculator is a Free File Encryption Software that at first glance appears to be just another Calculator. However, hidden in this Calculator is a Safe that can Encrypt and completely Hide any file. The only way the Safe can be opened and the files viewed, decrypted or run is by entering the correct password in Encrypted "Safe" Mode. The default password is 123 and can be changed to any numeric combination.
iPodME is a Portable (Media Encoder) that allows you to easily convert video files into an iPod compatible format. You can then bring those favorite videos with you on your iPod. Options include adjustable video resolution and encoding profile. Slower encoding provides better detail. By default, the new video files are exported to the same directory the executable is run from.
Fat32 Format is a Portable GUI tool that allows you to Format a drive as Fat32 even if the volume is larger than the 32GB limit imposed by Windows. By default, Windows XP won't let you format a volume bigger than 32GB with FAT32. The Fat32 Format Utility easily works around this limitation and enables you to format a device up to 2TB in size. Useful for formatting large external USB Hard Drives as Fat32 that cannot be formatted using default Windows format tools.
The Meaning is a Portable Dictionary and Portable Translator that is often referred to as "the best dictionary software in Thailand". This Portable Dictionary offers multiple dictionary databases in various languages. Moreover, The Meaning also provides a built in Translator tool that utilizes multiple translation sources to translate words, phrases, sentences and complete passages from one language to another. Also included is a currency converter.
Dictionary .NET is a Stand Alone, Free Portable Dictionary and Portable Translator that can be stored and run entirely from a USB device. It features a complete multilingual dictionary. One fascinating feature of this Portable Dictionary is that it can translate many different languages via it's built in Dictionary Translator which could be used to translate any text from one language to another. Dictionary .NET displays information about the word or phrases, and can provide references, images and audio examples as well. This application does require the .NET framework 2.0 or later to be installed.
UPX is a Portable Executable Compressor or "Exe Packer" that operates from a command line or drag and drop. This Free Executable Compression Utility allows you to compress executable files with an excellent compression ratio while still retaining fast decompression (compresses better than zip or gzip). UPX uses very little system resources to accomplish it's task and you can list, test and unpack your executables using the same tool. Additionally, a checksum of both the compressed and uncompressed file is maintained internally.
Unlocker is Free and Portable File and Folder Unlocking utility. It can be used to unlock Files and Folders that are in use by a process. It works by allowing you to stop or kill the running processes that may be keeping you from copying, moving, deleting, renaming or otherwise modifying a file or folder.
Rizone's Power Tools is a Free and Portable Tools and Utilities suite. Offering an extensive set of Windows Maintenance Tools at your fingertips to help you maintain your PC. Rizone's Power Tools can be used to Optimize Memory, Optimize Registry, Defrag Computer, Disk Cleanup, Flush File Buffers, Scan for Viruses using Clamwin or other scanners, access administrative tools and much more.
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