Portable Freeware
Portable Compilation
- Portable Compilation LiberKey is a compilation of portable programs. It offers three sizes of compilations of software with a great menu program: LiberKey Ultimate (202 software), LiberKey Standard (106 software), and LiberKey Basic (28 software). There is additional software you can also choose from. This is a collection of some of the best free portable programs in a package that is simply easy to download and use. Why install more than 200 software if they are available in one step via LiberKey. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Portable Compilation WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC can install and update the supported utilities automatically. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. Windows Sysinternals Suite (including support for Sysinternals Live service) and NirSoft Utilities. Portable, Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64 bit.
AUDIO
- Burner Burrrn Create audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Catalog Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organizer. Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. Audio, software, book, movie and photo collection cataloger. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself. Retrieve information from services like Amazon.com, Imdb.com, Softpedia and MusicBrainz. Platform independent and completely portable. Requires Java. FOSS.
- Converter fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Previously BonkEnc, it has been revamped and is very fast. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CD text and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags. Portable version. Size: 28.5MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32&64bit.
- Converter File Blender is a very easy to use extensible and customizable file conversion and processing tool and is a Video Converter (AVI, WMV, FLV, MP4, ...), Image Converter (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF, ...), Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, APE, M4A), PDF/TIFF Splitter and Joiner, JS/CSS Minifier and Obfuscator, PNG Optimizer, TTF to EOT Font Converter, HTML/XML Tidy, Encrypt and Decrypt any file. Opens only as a small drop file window, then after dropping a file, announces an operation choice. Portable. Size: 21.6MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Editor Audacity Record live audio, Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, Change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more! Download the zip file in the Optional downloads section for the portable version. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Editor Wavosaur Sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- IPod Manager YamiPod allows you to manage the content of your iPod without the need to have iTunes installed. You can copy mp3 and AAC files to/from your iPod, import and export playlists, search for songs, remove duplicates, create and edit notes and much more. The program runs completely standalone and can be copied directly to your iPod and run from there. Other features include a built-in music player, lyrics support, iPod information display (owner, serial used space etc.), adding and editing of notes and more. Portable. Size: 4763KB. Win All.
- MP3 Editor MP3DirectCut Fast and extensive audio editor, recorder or change the volume losslessly with MP3 files. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- MP3 Tag TagScanner is an excellent multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via online databases like freedb or Amazon. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4(iTunes) tags. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Easy-to-use interface. Built-in player. Portable version. Size: 5MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Win7.
- MP3 Volume MP3Gain Analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. Download the no install version. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Player FooBar Advanced audio player for most audio formats, tagging and transcoding capabilities. Portable mode. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Player VLC Multimedia player for various audio and video formats and various streaming protocols. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Steganography/Watermark Puff is Advanced Steganography & Watermarking - Image/Audio/Video (codec independent)/Flash support - Multiple carriers chains (up to 512MB hidden stream) - Random per-chain-512bit-cryptography-algorhythms - Data whitening - Adaptive LSB + Bits selection level. It's an evolution for advanced users of traditional steganography tools. Steganography is a smart way to hide data into other files, called carriers. Modified carriers will look like the original ones, without perceptible changes. Best carriers are videos, images and audio files, since everybody can send/receive/download them without suspects. Watermarking is here stated as the action of signing a file with your copyright mark. This program does it in a steganographic way, applied to videos, images and audio files. Your copyright mark will be invisible. Portable. Size: 226 KB. Win All.
- TextToSpeech Balabolka is a feature-rich program to read text aloud from a variety of file types including DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML. The program uses Microsoft's own Speech API 4 and 5, but lets you fine tune various voice parameters, including rate and pitch, and a substitution list can also be applied to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. The program supports customized font and background color, skins, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka can also save the synchronized text to external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When the audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text will be displayed synchronously (in the same way as lyrics for songs). Portable version. Size: 4.8MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
DVD
- Burner DeepBurner Burn data CDs/DVDs, AudioCDs, ISO images, and make Bootable CD/DVD. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Burner ImGBurn Burn an ISO image to a CD. Excellent CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Burner InfraRecorder Creation of custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and recording them to physical discs as well as disc images. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- CoverPrinter UnderCoverXP Easily print CD and DVD front covers, back covers, front plus inside, inlays, and more. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- ISO Folder2Iso creates an iso from any kind of folder with the subfolders. So : DVD decrypter, Folder2Iso, and ImGBurn combine a total freeware burning kit. Daemon Tools will mount the ISO from your hard drive. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
EDUCATION
- Bible The Word A portable interactive and customizable bible study program. There are two main views (sub-windows) that host all available resources: The Bible View that displays Bible translations and The Book View that displays all non-Bible resources (commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals, books, maps, etc.) Each view is fully customizable and can contain any number of resources, neatly organized with button-style tabs. The program allows you to create many views of each type. Apart from these two primary views, there are three more: the Bible Search View for searching the Bible, the Book Search View for searching non-Bible resources and the Bible Tree for navigating through the Bible.
- Genealogy Gramps is a free, open open source application that's easy enough for hobbyists to use, yet full-featured enough for professional genealogists. Gramps has a mile-long feature list of ways to help you organize and analyze the data you gather on your family history. Use it to record the details of individual people in your family, and also manage the intricate relationships found in your family tree. Filters let you display the individuals in your database in a variety of preset or customized ways. Choose birth date, name, date of death, event, or create your own. Portable version available. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
- Music Theory Lenmus Phonascus from Latin "the teacher of music", is a music education software that you can use to practice your music reading skills, improve your aural recognition abilities, or just learn the fundamental principles of music theory and language. And it includes an score editor, so that you can write your own scores. Portable version. Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Recipe Yiola Manage, download and share recipes. Calendar with cooking plan. Shopping list. Watch list. Portable and Install versions. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Typing TIPP10 is a free touch typing tutor for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The ingenious thing about the software is its intelligence feature. Characters that are mistyped are repeated more frequently. Beginners will find their way around right away so they can start practicing without a hitch. Useful support functions and an extensive progress tracker, topical lessons and the ability to create your own practice lessons make learning to type easy. At least the touch typist wannabes have a fresh and improved freeware. If you still look at the keyboard to type, get it. Portable version. Size: 4.3MB. Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32/64 Bit).
- Typing RapidTyping Excellent typing tutor with many features, Also acceptable for children. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Client Thunderbird Email, address book, and you can also add in GPG and Enigmail to encrypt and sign your email. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Email Notifier MagicMailMonitor Email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Email Notifier POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail/MSN/LiveMail, Yahoo, Gmail, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape and other services. Send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. POP Peeper allows you to view messages using HTML or you can choose to safely view all messages in rich or plain text. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). POP Peeper can be run from a portable device and can be password protected. Many notification options are available to indicate when new mail has arrived, such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, skinnable popup notifier, customized screensaver and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
FILE MANAGEMENT
- Archiver 7-Zip Portable is the popular 7-Zip packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind. Portable. Win NT/2k/XP/Vista/7.
- Boot UltimateBootCD Create a boot CD with recovery tools. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Boot WinToFlash Making a bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn't all that tricky, but it's always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008 installers. The default options make it easy to roll a silent Windows install, or you can flip the custom switch and specify the exact setup parameters you want to use. The handy app also has one more trick up its sleeve: moving Windows Preinstall environments. PE discs can be extremely handy for troubleshooting and repairs, and being able to painlessly zap them over to a USB flash drive means not having to burn a new copy every time someone's haggard old optical drive decides to chew up your CD. Portable. Win 2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Chrome Version Remover OldChromeRemover is a simple console program that checks for any redundant versions of Google Chrome left behind by the updater. It will quickly remove all except the newest version when prompted by the user, allowing you to free up valuable disk space. OldChromeRemover also supports Chrome 'Canary' builds. You can silently run OldChromeRemover using the "/AUTO" command line argument. This will silently perform the scan, remove any detected directories and files, then exit the program. Portable single file executable. Requires .NET 3.5. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Cleaner Ccleaner Optimizer, file cleaner, history cleaner, cleans registry, temp files, and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Cleaner System Ninja contains a unique dual cleaning engine. It scans your entire hard drive performing a thorough initial scan, identifying junk based on heuristics. System Ninja then continues to check locations that are known to contain junk based on a number of routines. The integrated startup manager allows you to dictate what can and can't run when you turn on your computer. It supports Run, RunOnce and Sheduled Tasks files and registry keys. System Ninja contains a database of several hundred common startup items, used to provide information and advice so you know what to remove. The process manager can forcibly terminate any process running on your computer. It can even remove multiple processes simultaneously. It will also remove any old Chrome versions. Portable Requires .NET 3.5. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Cleaner BleachBit deep cleans and frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. It also deletes the new hard to remove HTML 5 EverCookie. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Portable Version. Win XP/Vista/7 32/64bit.
- Cleaner RED is a small and simple tool that searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder. And before deleting anything it let's you check all empty directories it found. Shows empty directories before deleting them. Supports multiple delete modes (including Delete to recycle bin). Allows white and black listing of directories by using filter lists. Can detect directories with empty files as empty. You can choose to scan only a specific folder hierarchy or search an entire drive. You can choose to exclude system folders as well as custom directory names. Set custom name patterns to identify files that considered junk, which enables you to locate folders that, although not empty, only contain useless file. Portable. Size: 77KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Cookies-Flash FlashCookiesView is a utility that displays the list of cookie files created by Flash component (Local Shared Object) in your systems flash data folders. For each cookie file (.sol), the lower pane of FlashCookiesView displays the content of the file in readable format or as Hex dump. These cookies are not managed with normal browser utilities or file cleaners. Portable. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Copy Delete FastCopy is the Fastest Copy/Delete Software on Windows. FastCopy can be made portable by copying the FastCopy.exe and FastCopy.chm from the installation directory. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Drivers Double Driver allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system and backup, restore, save and print information about the drivers. Double Driver analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, date, provider, etc and offers you the chance to update to the latest version. All drivers that are found can easily be backed up with the application and easily restored at a later point. Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Eraser RightDelete is a portable secure file deletion program. It uses the US DoD 5220 compliant seven pass method with options to use up to 63 passes and several renames before deletion. When you run the executable, it gives you three options to check: Explorer context menu file/folder links, Explorer context menu SendTo link, and Desktop shortcut link. Registry writes are used to employ these options, therefore uncheck these and click update before you uninstall the program to delete these writes. Running the executable is only needed to check these options. Once you set the options, you use the program by dragging folders and files to the desktop shortcut or use the rightclick context menu (two-sendto is included) on a folder/file. The homepage has no navigation and you can only email the Webmaster for a link - so here is the link is for the direct download of the zip file. Portable. Size: 172KB. Win All.
- File Manager FreeCommander Dual pane file manager with the most functions. tabs, tree views, file viewer for archives, hex, binary, text or image, FTP, renaming tool, wipe files, MD5 checksums, splitting, context menu. folder size, comparison/synchronization, search, and more. Portable or install. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- File Manager Master Commander is a file manager with advanced custom file operations. There is Resume on error functionality, You can select Skip or Skip all to continue copying if some files are locked or You have no rights to copy etc. If target file exist on copying the possible actions are Overwrite/Overwrite all/Overwrite all older/Skip/Skip all/Change name/Append. There is also Pause/Resume option on time-consuming file operations. Tabs, two panes arranged vertically or horizontally, favorites, full handling of compressed files - create and open, list the contents, extract all or individually selected files or folders, add or remove files to/from the archive. Built-in FTP functionality with configurable Total Commander style FTP site manager. Built-in viewer/editor named Multi-Editor. It is used to view/edit text files, display image, video files and more. Wipe file function. Create ISO. Encrypt/Decrypt. Split/Join files. Digital signature, checksum, code page conversion functions. Process viewer. Portable version. Requires .NET. Win XP/Vista/7.
- File Manager Q-Dir Excellent four pane file manager. Save the file to your desktop. Unzip it and rename the installer file to Q-Dir.exe (you do not need to install it. That is the portable file. In the file menu, you can convert it to English. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- File Splitter GSplit is a free reliable file splitter that lets you split your large files (like Self-Extracting archives, Zip archives, disk images, multimedia, music, video, backup, image, archive, log, large text, document files...) into a set of smaller files called pieces. It can include a small program in the first file of the split to re-combine them (without the need for the parent program) and you can set any number of pieces or split the file into particular sizes. You do not have to load the file to split it. Portable mode. Size: 1.7 MB. Win All.
- File Unlocker FileASSASSIN can eradicate any type of locked files from your computer. Whatever the reason for the locked file, File ASSASSIN can remove it. Advanced programming techniques unload modules, close remote handles, and terminate processes in order to remove the particular locked file. Usage: Start FileASSASSIN and select a file by dragging it onto the text area or select it using the (...) button. Select a removal method from the list. Click Execute and the removal process will commence. Size: 80KB. Portable Version. Win All.
- File Unlocker File Governor is an advanced program which allows for files and folders within the system to be unlocked so that normal file I/O operations can be completed when normally they would not be able to be due to operating system restrictions for files currently in use. Once a file or folder is unlocked you will be able to force-close the file’s handle, rename, delete etc. File Governor can help to solve errors like: Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program. Cannot delete file: Access is denied. The file is in use by another program or user. Portable Version. Size: 711KB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
- Folder/File Automation DropIt is a tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders. When you need to organize files, DropIt can eliminate much of the drudgery of searching and manually opening folders and moving files around. You can configure DropIt to move, copy or compress your files and folders to specified destinations, based on file-names and/or file-types. You can even save sets of parameters in multiple Profiles for different purposes, projects, drives or computers. Drop a group of assorted files and/or folders on the floating DropIt image and it sorts them and sends them off to the folders you assigned. Portable. Size: 722KB. Win 2K/XP/Vista/7.
- Folder Creation Files 2 Folders registers a new shell entry when launched which can be used to automatically move the selected files into a new folder. Just select one or multiple files in Windows Explorer, right-click the selection afterward and select the Files 2 Folder option from the context menu. The software creates a folder based on the file name if a single file is selected, and displays a popup otherwise. Here you can then select to move all files into a single directory that you have to name, or to move each file into an individual folder based on individual file names. Files 2 Folders simplifies the process of moving files into new folders on the system. This can be a useful program for users who often download all kind of files into a single download folder to move them from that folder at a later time. A file to uninstall the shell extension is placed into the program folder after registration of the extension. This can be used to remove the entry again from Windows Explorer’s context menu. Portable Version. Size: 608KB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Installer ZipInstaller Installs and uninstalls applications and utilities that do not provide an internal installation program. Ideal for portable program set ups. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Merging WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. Visual differencing and merging of text files. Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap. Highlights differences inside lines. Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes. Location pane shows map of files compared. Moved lines detection. Folder Compare. Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items. Fast compare using file sizes and dates. Compares one folder or includes all subfolders. Portable version. Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view. Win 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.
- NirSoft Updater WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from Windows Sysinternals Suite and NirSoft Utilities. The setup packages are downloaded from the author's website. NirSoft has some of the best portable utilities available. WSCC can install and update the supported utilities automatically. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. Size: 1.4MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
- Program Updates Patch My PC is a portable single executable file designed to check your system against the current version of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Mozilla Firefox, Oracle Java, Apple Quicktime, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Updates and most third party installed programs. When run, it scans your PC and lists the installed programs and color codes their version status. Red indicates an update is available. Click install updates and all selected programs are updated behind the scene. Very useful program. Portable. Size: 328KB. Win All.
- Program Updates Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates setup packages. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date, but rather to maintain a compilation of all important setup packages which can then be burned to disc or put on a USB stick. I recommend as an example of use to download Tech Toolkit 2.0 from my Portable Categories. You will be amazed as it demonstrates the use of Ketarin and PStart. Portable mode. Size: 1.4 MB. Win All.
- ReCycle Bin Ibin is a portable application that you can throw on a USB flash drive to create a portable recycle bin. Basically, all you have to do is download iBin, copy it to your flash drive, and run it. From then on, whenever you try to delete an item on your flash drive, a window will pop up asking if you really want to erase it, or if you want to dump it into your iBin. You can then right-click the iBin icon in your Windows system tray to undo the last dumping, clean the bin, or open up the Dumping Management window where you can clear or recover (recycle) selected items. Size: 685KB. Win All.
- Search Everything File and folder search program utilizing the existing NTFS file system index enabling it to be the fastest. Does not search within files. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Search Xsearch File search program utilizing a variety of methods. Keyword searches within the files themselves and much more. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Search Index Your FilesIndex Your Files will find files on your computer or any network with great speed and simplicity. Slower at indexing than Everything but much more strength including searches inside your files.. Support Unicode. Compacts the indexes. Creates indexes for only the directories your select. Internal display for found files. Portable. Size: 958KB. Win 2000/XP, 2003/Vista/2008/7.
- Startup Autoruns has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, and shows you which programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility. Portable. Size: 605KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Synchronizer/clone FreeFileSync Very intuitive fast back-up or synchronzing program for drive, folder or file sync. It will also mirror/clone a drive to another drive, even if that drive is smaller. To choose that option, click the gear icon to the left of the Synchronize button and choose mirror. For the portable version, download the zip file, unzip it into a folder and put it on your removable media. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Synchronizer Allway Sync performs true bi-directional and n-way file and folder synchronization, forget about backup and restore routines. File modifications and deletions are tracked in a local database. Generates a full report of differences between synchronization folders. Allway Sync detects when folders are removed from one device and removes them from any other corresponding synchronization targets. Supports virtually any file system (FAT, NTFS, SAMBA, Netware, X-Drive, CDFS, UDF and more). Can be installed on a desktop, laptop, USB stick, external HDD or a U3-enabled device (see details). Capable of synchronizing more than two folders. Synchronize data between your desktop PCs and laptops over a network. FTP or WebDAV account support. A good way to backup and restore files if you run Allway Sync in one-way mode. Specify independent synchronization parameters for any number of sets of folders (multiple jobs). Transfer documents from one computer to another using an intermediate removable drive. Or just synchronize with a removable device (USB key, flash drive, CDRW, Zip) so that you always have your data with you. Flexible configuration and customization. Supports files of any size. Portable mode. Size 7MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.
- Undelete Recuva Restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Undelete DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats. It works by thoroughly scanning each sector of your media for traces of files. It is not an undelete program, it brute-forces its way through your media, scanning it thoroughly for any trace of files that can be recovered. Requires .NET. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Undelete UndeletePlus A quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Unlocker Free File Unlocker is an essential freeware file unlocking utility. It unlocks files or folders and stops error messages from appearing when trying to delete, move and rename files that are in use by other programs. It can also be used to terminate malware that is difficult to be removed and kill viruses and trojans. It is fully integrated with Windows Explorer and a simple right mouse click unlocks the file or folder. Additional information about the processes locking the file is also shown and the processes or file handle can be killed and deleted. Portable version. Size: 8.1MB. Win 98/NT/2000/Me/XP/2003/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Uninstaller RevoUninstaller Excellent uninstall utility that includes additional system clean-up tools after the uninstall. Also Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Uninstaller IOBit Uninstaller helps you remove unneeded programs easily even when Windows Add or Remove Programs fails. Besides removing unwanted applications, it also scans and removes leftovers easily. The most attractive part is that it makes a restore image before every uninstallation. IObit Uninstaller helps you remove unwanted toolbars thoroughly. You can search program names in Forced Uninstall and uninstall them directly in the search results. Revo Uninstaller's free version does not work on 64bit machines, IObit does. Portable (downloads as a single executable file.) Size: 1.2MB. Win XP/2000/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
GRAPHICS
- Editor TheGimp Photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Editor PhotoFiltre Amazing complete image editing and effects package. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Editor IrFanView Great graphics viewer and editor. The most popular. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Editor LightBox A very nice easy to use photo editing and enhancing program with lots of advanced features including smart light shadow and red eye removal. A must for any graphic tool box. You can spawn a copy to your USB stick from the menu. (For portable, answer no to install.) Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Editor Analyzer Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Cursor Editor AniFX is a full-featured cursor editor. It is an all-in-one solution for cursor creation, extraction and editing. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the cursors you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into cursors, or cursors into images. AniFX gives you the possibility to change cursors inside exe files. Convert your GIF files to animated cursors and vice versa. With AniFX you can extract cursors from other files, including Windows Vista and Macintosh files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of AniFX. Your existing cursors are located in c:\windows\cursors... as .cur files. Last Freeware Edition. Portable. Size: 3.4MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Icon Editor GreenfishIconEditor A professional and easy to use tool for creating icons, cursors, and other small pixel graphic images with a wide range of features. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Icon Extractor Thumbico displays the thumbnail or icon of any file, image, document, video or program from your Desktop or computer. But unlike Windows, which shows you small, standard sized images, Thumbico gives you the large, any size "uncensored" version. Features like resizing, converting or saving the icons make it useful for presentations, and for software development and testing. Drag and Drop a file on the Thumbico Window or Icon if it is not running and can save the thumbnail or icon to a JPEG, PNG, GIF or BMP file or can copy it to the Windows Clipboard. You can size it any way you like or use the menu for a variety of standard sizes. Also has a glass and naked mode. Portable single file executable. Size: 85KB. Win Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Image Enlarger SmillaEnlarger is an open source program which lets you to enlarge any portion of an image and it also makes sure that you need not compromise with the image quality. This free program is based on some algorithms, which does not require any third party program to work well. There isn’t any free program, which offers you with so much of power. Portable. Win All.
- Image to Painting FotoSketcher Convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds. Portable and Install. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- QR Code Generator QRGen is a small, easy to use, useful, portable and most importantly freely available application that allows you to easily generate QR codes and save them into multiple image formats, including JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF depending upon your requirements. The QR code appears in the left side of the main application window after you generate a QR code, by entering the text in the provided field, and by selecting the size from the pre-specified 100x100 to 500x500 image size list according to tour need and requirements. After this you need to choose the Error Correction method, and hit the Generate button in order to create the respective QR code. As already mentioned, you can export the image by saving it as PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG or BMP. You may string information together. Example: http://bearware.info Name: Bear Bottoms Address: 00000 Chickhouse Avenue, North Wells, La. Phone: 225-604-7000. Portable. Size: 427KB. Win All.
- QR Code Generator QR-Code is a PC portable QR code generator and decoder to convert a URL or text etc. to a OR code image. You may save (.jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png) or print the image. You may string information together. Example: http://bearware.info Name: Bear Bottoms Address: 00000 Chickhouse Avenue, North Wells, La. Phone: 225-604-7000. Portable. Size: 6.1MB. Win All.
- Screen Capture Screenshot Captor is optimized for taking lots of screenshots with minimal intervention. Smart auto-naming of files, and ability to embed textual comments in files. Good multi-monitor support. Highly configurable to make it work the way you want it to; stays out of your way in the system tray. Lots of capture modes: Multimon (multiple monitors), Desktop, Active Window, Region, Windows Object, Scrolling capture. Each mode has a hotkey for quick access. Unique Cool Effects, including automatic active window enhancement. Full set of scanner acquisition tools and scanner image correction. By far the best screen capture program I've used. Portable. Win 9x/2k/XP/Vista/7.
- Screen Ruler ScreenRuler Measure the distance between two points on your screen, get the exact location and size of an element on a web page, measure in pixels, centimeters or millimeters, both horizontally and vertically at the same time. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Sculpting Sculptris When you start Sculptris, you get a round sphere of clay-like substance you can use to make sculptures. You can change the material. An array of tools are provided to sculpt your clay. You can pull, push, pinch, twist, and do just about anything that you could do with a regular piece of modeling clay. There is one important distinction with Sculptris, though, and that's symmetry. By default, a line crosses the sphere in the middle. Every operation that you perform on one half of the sphere is exactly mirrored on the other half. So, you only have to sculpt one ear, one eye, etc. The program is obviously geared for character sculpting and "organic" models. Hit Ctrl+N and it adds another pair of blobs (or just one, if you hold Shift). You can then make it into a body or anything else you can think of. Once you finish sculpting your character, you can paint and export it. This isn't SketchUp; it's something completely different and far more artistically-oriented. Portable. Size 3.2 MB. All Win32. DemoA short demonstration of the program.
- Steganography/Watermark Puff is Advanced Steganography & Watermarking - Image/Audio/Video (codec independent)/Flash support - Multiple carriers chains (up to 512MB hidden stream) - Random per-chain-512bit-cryptography-algorhythms - Data whitening - Adaptive LSB + Bits selection level. It's an evolution for advanced users of traditional steganography tools. Steganography is a smart way to hide data into other files, called carriers. Modified carriers will look like the original ones, without perceptible changes. Best carriers are videos, images and audio files, since everybody can send/receive/download them without suspects. Watermarking is here stated as the action of signing a file with your copyright mark. This program does it in a steganographic way, applied to videos, images and audio files. Your copyright mark will be invisible. Portable. Size: 226 KB. Win All.
HARD DRIVE
- Defrag Defraggler Defrag entire drives or select individual files and folders to defrag. Very fast. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7 32/64bit.
- Defrag File WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates. Portable. Size: 800KB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Erase Hard Drive DiskWipe securely erases the entire contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank. Numerous passes can be performed to ensure data is totally unrecoverable. Program works on hard and floppy disks as well as USB/Flash drives. Portable single executable file. Size: 54KB. Win All.
- Health HD Speed measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, CD/DVD-ROMs, flash cards/sticks, floppies, etc. Real-time graphical display. Select the drive and hit start. The read/write results show up as a graph and also as real values. An 80KB portable utility. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
INTERNET
- Anonymous Surfing CyberGhost Anonymity services safely transmit information with little risk of local interception, making them ideal for surfing on open Wi-Fi networks or in hotels while traveling. Registration is required, 1 GB per month allowance and you may have to wait in a queue at peak times. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Chat Pidgin Excellent multi-protocol chat client. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- DNS Benchmarking DNS Benchmark is a utility to determine the exact performance of local and remote DNS nameservers. Since nothing can happen until IP addresses are known, the use of slow, overloaded or unreliable DNS servers will get in the way, noticeably slowing down virtually all of your use of the Internet. Compare the performance and reliablity of your system's currently configured DNS servers to many publicly available alternatives. Portable. Size: 163KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- DNS Changer DNS Helper runs in your Windows notification area and provides a popup menu to quickly switch to any DNS provider. It automatically changes the DNS server address in your network settings for you. You do not have to keep the program running in the tray once you use it to change your DNS Server. It also features backup and restore functionality in case you want to revert to your ISP's default DNS servers. It is configured to allow the choice of GoogleDNS, OpenDNS, ComodoDNS, DNS Advantage, Cisco Systems, and ScrubIT. You can also manually enter the IP address of any DNS server in the Custom DNS tab, though it doesn't include options to add and save additional servers. You can use GRC's DNS Benchmark program to evaluate which DNS server is best for you. Portable single executable. Size: 63.5KB. Requires .NET 2. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Domain Tracing eToolz Ping, Whois, Traceroute, DNS, Page Rank, Mail check, HTTP Header. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Downloader uTorrent Powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- FTP FileZilla The popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- FTP FTP Rush is the most powerful and free FTP/FXP/SFTP/TFTP client software for Windows. It is designed to fit any transfer need, it allows you to quickly upload or download files in all directions: from FTP Server to local, local to FTP Server or FTP Server to FTP Server. The client supports secure transfer including SSH and TFTP and it is really easy-to-use, Also FTP Rush takes into account all peculiarities of internet file transfer and management by presenting a great choice of features, creating comfortable working experience. Portable version. Size: 3.81MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Win7.
- Peer 2 Peer eMule P2P with the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Radio Tapin-radio is the new Screamer Radio with the main goal of keeping preset station updated. TapinRadio is simple, reliable and just works. Main features are: Plenty of stations to choose from, Supports most of the internet radio formats mp3, wma, ogg vorbis, aac+ and so on, Quick and reliable search, Smooth switching between stations, Record what you are listening to including separate song files, Automatic checking for software and radio stations updates. Portable Option on installation. Win XP/Vista/7 32/64bit.
- Radio RadioSure is an elegantly simple Internet radio program. More than 12000 of stations in the package, Supports most of the internet radio formats. Quick and reliable search for your favorite radio stations, Smooth switching between stations including cross fade effect, Recording what you are listening to and packaging it into separate song files, Simultaneous recording of multiple stations, Automatic checking for software and radio stations updates, Command line parameters for automation, with UNICODE support...all domestic stations are perfectly visible and searchable. Also Portable. Size: 2.08MB. Windows XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Radio Screamer Radio Listen to and record Internet Radio stations with a recording buffer enabling recording in the middle of a song and still save the entire song. Create a schedule for automatic recording. Direct MP3 Audio stream saving, no loss of quality, Direct OGG Vorbis stream saving, no loss of quality, Or encode OGG Vorbis as MP3 using Lame, and Encode WMA or AAC to MP3 using Lame. Also Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Radio Recorder streamWriter is a free application for windows that records music broadcasted by internet-radiostations. Record as many streams as you want at the same time (MP3/AAC). Automatically record a wishlist's song when it's playing on a stream. Listen to streams. Track splitting with silence detection. Function for manual cutting of saved titles. Tracks are named by a given pattern. Short songs (ads) can be skipped. ID3 tagging and script-based postprocessing option. Scheduled recordings. Stream browser. Portable Version. Size: 1.9 MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Remote Computing Supremo is a free remote desktop software for Windows. It is a complete and powerful utility for remote access and support over the internet. With Supremo you can remotely control any computer, without the need to change any firewall/router settings, combining an extremely easy setup with one of the highest security level available. Applies a static IP address for every computer though the password changes each session. Allows multiple users with chat. Explore the disks of the remote computer and transfer files and folders in both directions. You can install Supremo as a Windows service, to make the connection always available in background. There is an address book to keep your connections in. Portable. Size: 1.87MB. Win XP/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
- Repair Internet Complete Internet Repair is a small, freeware and portable application designed to repair common internet connection issues. A multitude of problems can prevent a computer from accessing the internet such as a virus/adware attack, an incorrect firewall rule or even a legitimate antivirus product that did not install or uninstall correctly. Note: Due to the nature of this application (editing internet settings and such), a very small amount of antivirus products detects this application as malicious. This is a false positive. Portable. Size: 607KB. Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.
- Screen Sharing Mikogo Online meetings, 10 users, screen sharing, change presenters, FTP, application selection, 256 AES secure with tutorials. (Use LoudTalks for voice.) Win ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Screen Sharing TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Remote access to PCs and servers via Internet. Instantly take control over a computer or give control anywhere on the Internet, even through firewalls. No installation required, just use it fast and secure. Remote administration of unattended servers. File transfer. Chat. Completely secure data channels with key exchange and AES (256 Bit) session encoding. Portable version. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Search Cleeki redefines the way you search. It captures keyword(s) anywhere on a screen and searches the Internet, Wikipedia, dictionaries etc. with Wordweb functionality. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Usenet Xnews Full featured Usenet Newsgroup Client. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Usenet XanaNews Full featured Usenet Newsgroup Client. Portable. Win 98/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Usenet Gravity Popular full-featured Usenet news client for Win32 platforms. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Web Browser OperaUSB Excellent web browser, email, RSS, Usenet, bittorrent and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Web Browser FireFox Fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Web Browser Square1 The simplest web browser in the world. Integrated Popup Blocker. Uncluttered interface. Square1 is incredibly simple to use. Unaffected by browser hijackers and toolbars. There are no settings to change. The download is simply the Square1.exe file. There is no installation. Simply put the file in a folder where you want it and create a shortcut to it. It is portable, but not stealth as it does make some registry entries when it is run. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Web Browser QtWeb lightweight, secure and portable browser having unique user interface and privacy features. No traces are left on the host machine while browsing or after the browser has been reset. All toolbars, including navigation bar, can be turned off or docked anywhere, and even moved outside the main browsing window. Includes built-in support for Torrent downloads. Based on Nokia's Qt framework (former Trolltech) and Apple's WebKit rendering engine (also used by Apple Safari and Google Chrome). Portable. Size 6.9MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Web Browser Backup FavBackup is a simple solution for you to backup and restore web browser settings, favorites, history, search providers, session data, toolbar settings, cookies, Chrome and FireFox extensions, Opera widgets, saved form data and more. You can select what you want to backup. For Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Flock. BearWare has hosted the version 2.1.2 download due to slow home site downloads. Portable. Size: 2492 KB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Wi-Fi WiPeer enables sharing files directly among computers, playing multi-player games, chatting, and collaboration over both Wi-Fi and home/office networks. The new Peersonalizer feature of WiPeer allows you to discover whenever your Facebook friends, or the friends of your friends, are nearby. You do not need an Internet connection.
MULTIMEDIA
OFFICE
- Accounting Money Manager Ex Apart from GnuCash, Money Manager Ex is another software that is used and liked by many people. The unique thing about MMEx is not about its features, but its big screen that allows you to see at one glance where all your money has gone to. Portable version. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Accounting Monex Personal finance manager based on double entry bookkeeping principles. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Calculator Calcute Unobtrusive scientific tape calculator which is an expression evaluator where the numbers entered do not disappear as you evolve your calculations. You can see what you are doing so you can easily make corrections. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Calculator ESBCalc is a Freeware Scientific Calculator for Windows with Infix Notation, Brackets, Scientific Functions (Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, Logarithmic - including Base 10, Base 2 & Natural - plus more), Memory, Paper Trail, Result History List and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Calendar Sunbird Take your schedule and to-do lists with you on your USB flash drive, CD, iPod, etc and use it on any computer. If you want to manage a schedule, also get Lightning. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Contact Manager Kurlo individual and organizational, address lists, email client, email lists, event tracking, reminders, address label and printing, custom fields, contact image, import and export. In portable mode, you need to create a User Backup File within Kurlo, and then restore that file to your other computer. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Database Database Browser is an easy to use tool allows you to connect to any database and browse or modify data, run sql scripts, export and print data. It works directly with Oracle, MS Sql Server, ODBC, MySql, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird and Ole DB databases. Portable version. Size: 3.3MB. Win 2K/XP/Vista/7.
- Dictionary/Thesaurus The Sage English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system. TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable. It has many advanced features which Wordweb does not have. It downloads with an installer with an option to choose the portable mode. Portable. Size: 8.5MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
- Envelope Printing Envelope Wizard is a fantastic basic freeware envelope printing program. Envelope Wizard walks you through each step from selecting the envelope size, recipient's address, formatting the font, setting return address and other options. This is a great little program for printing envelopes quickly. Portable. Size: 210KB. Win All.
- Data Extraction ExtractData is an Open Source program which scans your files, looking for specific types of data to isolate and extract. Extract lists of email addresses, person names, addresses and other kinds of data types from multiple files in a single pass. Java Runtime Environment required. Portable. Size: 4MB. Win All.
- Investment Manager TakeStock Track US and international stocks and mutual funds, get real-time (when possible) quotes and historical prices, view and compare stock charts, obtain company information, and read business news. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- CSV Editor CSVed is an easy and powerful CSV file editor, you can manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator. Edit, add, insert and delete items, import, change separator, add, delete columns, rearrange column order, save selection of rows and columns, save filtered items, save with double quotes, search and replace, filter items, remove duplicates, append and merge files, install and uninstall, help in English, add prefix and suffix, split and join columns, export to HTML, Excel, Word, XML and more, proper words and strings, column search, column sort and global sort. The list view is running in virtual mode, that means the data is displayed on demand. (not the entire CSV file is loaded in the list view) so CSVed can handle big files and is very fast. In other words, you can do everything with a CSV file you wanted. Also Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Notes Pasteboard is a basic 10 page notebook which is handy for holding text while you cut, copy and paste between different programs. Rename buttons for identification, Change font and color settings, All text and settings are automatically saved on exit and loaded when restarting the program, so you don't have to worry about saving or opening files manually. You can also customize the interface with your own color and font preferences to suit your requirements. I've done away with pen and paper next to my computer. Portable. Size: 673KB. Win 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7.
- NotePad EditPad is a small and compact general-purpose text editor. It allows you to open many files simultaneously, and switch between them using tabs. It also supports many functions for text manipulation and conversion. Portable install option. Size: 4MB. Win All.
- Office Suite OpenOffice Complete OpenOffice.org office suite packaged as a portable app. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7. TutorialGreat tutorials for Open Office
- PDF PDF-XChange Viewer Enables you to view and annotate PDF files and extract text/images. Portable version. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- PDF from Image JPEG to PDF for converting JPEG images to PDF files. JPEG to PDF is one small converter that can instantly convert JPEG images into PDF files. It is one standalone program and does not require Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. JPEG to PDF supports command line usage, and you can make one ".bat" file to batch convert many jpeg files to pdf documents at one time! It is very easy to use, and converting is simple and quick. Supports JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP image formats. Portable. Size: 577KB. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/VISTA/7 platforms.
- PDF Form Filler FillOutAForm enables you to fill out either a scanned form or a PDF form on your computer and print it (or print the original form with your entries superimposed). Landscape-oriented as well as portrait-oriented forms are supported. Very easy to use the menu to convert a PDF to a bmp image or use PicPickTools to screen capture or scan an image to the computer and save the image as a bmp file. Open the file in FillOutAForm, set the font and font size, right click hold and drag the bracket to align to where you wish to type, add the information, then hit enter. To delete an entry, hold the mouse cursor over the entry and hit the delete key. A file for that image is saved in the image folder, so the next time you open the form, your entries will be there to print or edit. Portable. Size 60KB. Win all.
- PIM EssentialPIM Personal information management system on any desktop or USB flash drive. Win ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- PIM SEO Note Portable if you copy the files to a portable drive after installation, then uninstall the program. A great personal information manager with tabbed folders and tree structured notes. You can also set up various style template for your folders. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Reminder Date Reminder Reminds you of recurring or nonrecurring events, like birthdays, bills to pay, and appointments, but not hours of the day. The program can be run from the Startup folder with an option to show only, if there are any alerts for this day. If Date Reminder is kept in the System Tray (optional), if will also alert you after standby or hybernation. The reminders are listed in chronological order, with recurring events showing only once (the next one). This gives you an instant view of the alerts (at top), as well as a full list of all reminders. Other view modes: Alerts only, History. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Reminder+ Quotepad just select some text in any application, press Ctrl+Shift+Q and the selected text will be saved to QuotePad together with the URL of the webpage or the tiltle of the document it was copied from. It stores the selections inside Quotepad for future use. Reminders, quick filtering, automatic backup, time stamping, checklist, and print. Highly recommended. Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. Portable install option. DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
- SoftPhone Phoner is a Softphone for VoIP, CAPI and TAPI. SIP is the most used protocol for establishing voice calls over IP connections. By supporting SIP, Phoner can contact a wide range of peers like Asterisk and countless VoIP providers. The advantage is, that only a functional Internet connection is necessary. PhonerLite is a specialized version of Phoner for VoIP/SIP only. There are not any settings for CAPI and TAPI which Phoner has. Therefore configuration of PhonerLite is much easier. It has all of the features you would want in a Softphone and more. Also Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Spell Check Get it Right provides you with a handy means of checking the spelling in order to make sure your words are correctly typed/written. It is fully featured as well, with a large selection of dictionaries, and custom import/export dictionary support. It is a useful stand-alone application that lets you easily and quickly verify the spelling of words in any Windows application. Copy the text, paste it into the spell checker and click "start checking." The spell checker is optimised for multi-core processors. In fact, anything that supports the clipboard supports our spell checker. Special Operational Note: Do not manually enter the correct word or change any word inside the pasted text or editor area. Enter or change your correct text inside the "Replace With" edit box and then click on the "Replace Word" button. If you are running this application on Windows Vista / 7 / 8, simply right-click on the executable and select the "Run as Administrator" option. You will only need to do this once. Portable. Size: 3.3MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Text Utility WinSorter is a small portable program that allows you to select some text then right click it's icon running in the tray and choose how you would like to manipulate it. Possible commands are shown in the screen shot on the website. Downloads zipped as a single executable. Portable. Size: 206KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Time Tracker Rachota Time tracking for various projects. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- ToDo List ToDoList is one of the best todo lists if not the best, one that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience. ToDoList has been in continuous development for the last 4 years and is an ongoing project. Your task lists are stored in XML which provides many opportunities for advanced formatting and printing using stylesheets. ToDoList's flexible design makes it ideal for both IT related projects as well as more general GTD uses. We welcome feature requests and respond promptly to all reports of bugs or unexpected behavior. Portable. Size: 2.04 MB. Win All.
- Word Processor AbiWord Portable is the lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your documents on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
SECURITY
- Anti Virus ClamWin Antivirus with high detection rates for virus and spyware. Manual scan only, no real-time protection. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Directory Monitor Directory Monitor surveils selected directories and notifies of any file changes, deletions, modifications, and new files in real-time. You can choose as many directories to monitor as you like. You can optionally execute an application when a change occurs. This program helps on understand what is happening to these folders when in use or not. Portable version which downloads as a single executable. Runs in the system tray. One quirk of the program is when you minimize it, it goes to the taskbar, "X" it and it goes to the tray. To exit the program you must right click > exit the tray icon. Size: 924KB. Requires .NET 3.5. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Disk Activity Monitor Moo0 FileMonitor lets you easily monitor the file access activities on your system. Have you ever wondered what's going on with your disk system behind your watch? Moo0 FileMonitor will show you what is causing your disk activity with details. Tip: You can open the containing folder by double-clicking the item. Portable version. Size: 1.82MB. Win XP/2003/Vista/7.
- Encryption Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program. It doesn’t require Administrator Privileges to open password protected USB drive partition! Intuitive USB flash drive Setup Wizard automatically detects your USB flash drive and setup an encrypted partition properties. You just need to provide a protection password. One click - and you can save your first file into protected volume. Encryption is automatic and on-the-fly. If you need to open secured volume on a guest computer, you just click Rohos icon on the USB flash drive root folder and enter disk password. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Encryption TrueCrypt Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Encryption File AxCrypt is an open source file encryption software. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files. AxCrypt is a great complement to services such as Dropbox, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and Box.net . Password Protect any number of files using strong encryption. Right-click integration with Windows Explorer makes AxCrypt the easiest way to encrypt individual files in Windows. Double-click integration makes it as easy to open, edit and save protected files as it is to work with unprotected files. AES encryption with 128-bit keys. Portable version. Size: 3.21MB. Win 2003/XP/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
- Encryption FreeOTFE On-the-fly transparent disk encryption program for PCs, USB sticks and PDAs. Create one or more virtual encrypted disks. Anything written to them will be encrypted. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Encryption gpg4usb is a very easy to use and small portable editor to encrypt and decrypt any text message or file you want. Our aim is to give anyone the possibility to send and receive secure encrypted messages anywhere - on any computer out there, no matter if Microsoft Windows or Linux is running on it. Therefore its usage is self-describing, and the user interface as simple as possible. Portable. Size: 12.5MB. Win All.
- KeyLogger RamHook is free and completely open source keystroke logging application. It allows you to capture and record all keyboard input to a file. The program is extremely small and lightweight, can run in a hidden mode, upload log file to specified web server. Due to open source nature, software is secure and transparent. Captures all keyboard input. Caching and low level hooks uses minimal amount of CPU cycles. Highly customizable. Hidden mode. Windows integration. Log file uploading to remote servers. Portable. Size: 1.15MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- KeyLogger Test AKLT (AntiKeyLoggerTester) is a portable single executable program file that will allow you to test your computers protection from key logging malware. There are 12 tests you can perform including the ability to block screenshot tests. When you click on the first 10 tests, if you can type on your keyboard and the symbols appear in the Captured keys screen then you are not protected from that test. If you are protected, a green checkmark will appear and it will display "Nothing Intercepted Until Now" which means the test was blocked. Your anti-keylogger program should also give you an alert to allow or deny the attempt. The two screenshot tests should not be able to capture an image of your screen. The attempted screenshot capture by the program will put the jpg image on your desktop. The Firewall Leak Tester website is currently down, therefore BearWare is hosting the 169KB file.
- Malware Analyzer X-Ray automates submission of files that you think are suspicious to 31 (Avast, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, ClamAV, Comodo, Dr.Web, Emsisoft, ESET, CA, Fortinet, F-Prot, F-Secure, Ikarus, K7Antivirus, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Norman, nProtect, Panda, PC Tools, Prevx, Rising, SUPERAntiSpyware, Symantec, TheHacker, VBA32, Vipre, ViRobot, VirusBuster) antivirus companies for manual analysis by virus analyst professionals with a click of a button. Able to change submission method for a particular antivirus from Settings, Test email settings, Send file to VirusTotal for scanning, Retrieve latest scan report from VirusTotal, Two methods of sending files to VirusTotal (Email and API), Automatic failover when chosen method for sending suspicious files to VirusTotal fails, Copying MD5 hash and results to clipboard via right click context menu. History (VirusTotal detection report and Analysis Submission date & time). It is recommended to use your VirusTotal API key because every public API key has a limit of 20 requests per 5 minutes. A few users simultaneously using X-Ray will easily reach the request limit for the built-in API key and you will receive the error message “Submission via API failed. Reason: exceeded API request rate“. Register a free account at VT Community. Portable. Size: 1.9MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit. Download
- Onscreen Keyboard SafeKeys is another of the great ones. A very well planned and laid out on screen keyboard with the best features. 100% Key logger protection, the keyboard is not used in the creation or transfer of your passwords ever. Great Screen logger protection. Injection Mode. With this, you can use NSK with programs that do not usually accept drag-drop which means that you can now be protected when entering master passwords for KeePass and Roboform, and when using Opera, Excel and even World of Warcraft. Transparency and Auto-hiding when dragging dropping passwords make NSK a breeze to use. Adjustable hover entry delay just adjust how long you need to hover over a key, before it registers as a key press, from 0.5 secs to 2.5 secs. and NSK remembers your settings from the last time you ran it. Portable. Size: 1.9 MB. Win 2k/XP/Vista/7.
- Optimizer True System Security Tweaker is a freeware security utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows operating system. It can simply be used as a portable application to customize and secure your PC to meet your safety requirements. You can define access level to lots of Control Panel applet functions including Desktop, Network, Passwords, Printers, System, Add/Remove Programs, etc. Use it to disable system features for certain user profiles; hide Start menu items and Open-Save dialogs options. True System Security Tweaker has got a simple but nicely designed interface for selecting over 470 security options for your system. Also the Delphi source code is available too. Portable. Size: 2.6MB. Win 2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Packet Viewer SmartSniff Easy program to sniff and view IP packets. Shows outbound and inbound calls. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Packet Viewer WireShark Enables you to capture and examine data/packets from a live network. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Password Manager LastPass I recommend this solution for automated password management, and form filler. The LastPass password is the last password you will ever have to remember, and you can start using very secure passwords without worrying about forgetting or managing them. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Password Manager S10 Password Vault is a convenient, secure way to store all your usernames, passwords, and other account information. Small and simple windows, unlike other programs that often use cluttered windows full of technical, confusing options. No ugly browser toolbars or plug-ins either. Works with any program, not just browsers. The convenient autotype feature avoids the cumbersome switching back-and-forth between windows to copy/paste usernames and passwords. A very rich and secure feature set. Portable version. Size: 549KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Password Manager KeePass Password Safe so you can securely carry your email, Internet and other passwords with you. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Ports Viewer CurrPorts View or manage a list of ports that are currently in use, and the application that is using it. Use with PacketViewer and see everything going out or into your computer. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7. (use with SmartSniff)
- Private Network RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralized communication platform. It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides file sharing, chat, messages, forums and channels. Serverless, encrypted Chat & Filetransfer. Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads. Search Friends. Messages. Forums. UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support. GnuPG Authentication. OpenSSL Encryption. Plugins support. User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit. System tray integration. RetroShare only allows people into your network who you exchange GnuPG certificates with (a certificate is created for you when you set up the server). Portable. Size: 14.4MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Process Monitor Glint shows system activity as flash-lights or small graphs by using system performance counters in local or remote computer. It also displays the most active processes in system in descending CPU activity order. I like it because I can see what the most active program is, or quickly see what program or process is causing activity. Portable. Size: 212KB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Process Viewer ProcessExplorer Shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Scanner, Cleaner and Monitor Comodo Cleaning EssentialsComodo Cleaning Essentials (CCE) is a set of portable computer security tools designed to help users identify and remove malware and unsafe processes from infected computers. CCE consists of three core technologies: KillSwitch - an advanced system monitoring tool that allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe processes that are running on endpoint systems. Autoruns - an advanced system monitoring tool that allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe autorun entries, AND a Malware scanner - fully featured malware scanner capable of unearthing and removing viruses, rootkits, hidden files and malicious registry keys hidden deep within a system. The scanner is highly configurable, uses the latest heuristic techniques to detect previously unknown viruses, features first-class malware removal capabilities and is capable of detecting hidden drivers and services loaded during system start-up. Portable. Size: 43MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Scanner Emsisoft AntiMalwareManual malware scanner with the highest Trojan detection/Remover. Portable mode. Win 2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Scanner Rootkit GMER is an application that detects and removes rootkits. It scans for: hidden processes, hidden threads, hidden modules, hidden services, hidden files, hidden Alternate Data Streams, hidden registry keys, drivers hooking SSDT, drivers hooking IDT, drivers hooking IRP calls, and inline hooks. This is currently the best rootkit detector/remover. Portable single executable. It's recommended to download the randomly named EXE (click button above) because some malware won't let gmer.exe launch. Portable. Size: 289KB. Win NT/W2K/XP/VISTA/7.
- Scanner Ultra Virus Killer (UVK) is a powerful free tool for manual virus removal and system repair. With simple and intuitive interface, UVK allows users to detect and delete Trojans, rootkits, malware and spyware from infected systems. It also includes lots of tools to repair windows after the disinfection. Process manager, Startup Entries and services and Drivers/Tasks, Delete file or folder, Scan & create log, Run UVK Scripts, Repair system and UVK Fixes, System Info, and Automatic anti-malware scans. The application can be set to scan with MalwareBytes, SUPERAntiSpyware, and Hitman Pro (these applications will be automatically downloaded and installed, if not already on your system). Additionally, you may choose to run Kaspersky TDSS Killer and ComboFix. The real strength of the application, in my view, lies in the repair tools which have been designed to repair Windows (if necessary), after the disinfection. On top of that - users may create and run scripts that perform complete system repair and maintenance. Portable version. Size: Win XP/Server 2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
- Scanner SUPERAntiSpyware Portable is an anti-spyware/anti-malware product that is well known amongst computer technicians. SAS just got even better by officially releasing a portable version of their product. The portable version is almost identical to the installed version in the way that it deals with malware, except that it downloads as a single, portable file. When you download the portable version from the official website, you will probably notice it has a strange file name like SAS-4325.COM. The reason for this is because the last 4 numbers of the file name are random. This helps prevent some of the nastier infections from closing SAS Portable when it runs. SAS Portable also comes as a .COM file instead of a .EXE file because many infections will try to prevent .EXE files from running, so it has those bases covered. SUPERAntiSpyware Portable is free, updates easily and is definitely a tool you will want to keep on your USB drive to deal with malware infections. This is a manual scanner, no real time protection. Portable. Size: 9.4MB. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Steganography/Watermark Puff is Advanced Steganography & Watermarking - Image/Audio/Video (codec independent)/Flash support - Multiple carriers chains (up to 512MB hidden stream) - Random per-chain-512bit-cryptography-algorhythms - Data whitening - Adaptive LSB + Bits selection level. It's an evolution for advanced users of traditional steganography tools. Steganography is a smart way to hide data into other files, called carriers. Modified carriers will look like the original ones, without perceptible changes. Best carriers are videos, images and audio files, since everybody can send/receive/download them without suspects. Watermarking is here stated as the action of signing a file with your copyright mark. This program does it in a steganographic way, applied to videos, images and audio files. Your copyright mark will be invisible. Portable. Size: 226 KB. Win All.
- Svchost Process Analyzer Svchost Process AnalyzerSvchost.exe is the most mysterious process in Windows XP/Vista/2008/7. Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The authentic svchost.exe file is located in C:\Windows\System32, but numerous viruses and Trojans use the same file and process name to hide their activities. The free Svchost Process Analyzer lists all svchost instances and checks the services they contain. This makes it easy to uncover Svchost worms like the infamous Conficker worm. Svchost Process Analyzer is a 100% freeware program from www.neuber.com. There is absolutely no installation required. Simply download and run the software. Size: 372KB. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
UTILITY
- AlwaysOnTop Always on Top when run, CTRL+ALT+T makes the foreground program always remain on top. You must minimize that window to get to another window on top. To unselect that program as remaining on top, simply use CTRL+ALT+T again. CTRL-ALT-T turns a window always on top when you hear a beep, if it turns a window not always on top, you will hear nothing and the application is turned to the bottom of other applications. It runs as a process (4megs) and is not visible in your taskbar or tray. You know if the program is running by looking in the processes tab in task manager or using CTRL+ALT+T and hearing the ding. To close the program, use CTRL+ALT+Q or terminate the process in task manager. Portable. Size: 24KB. Win ALL.
- Application Virtualization Cameyo takes a snapshot of your existing Windows system, looks at your installed software, and then lets you pick which programs you'd like to turn into a virtual package. The package can then be run on other systems that don't already have that same software installed, so any program you want becomes instantly portable. Pack an entire application into one single .EXE and take it with you anywhere without having to reinstall it every time. Size: 5.2MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Automation-Macro AutoHotKey will automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way". Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script. Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities. Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed. Change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard. Make any window transparent, always-on-top, or alter its shape. Use a joystick or keyboard as a mouse. Monitor your system. For example, close unwanted windows the moment they appear. Retrieve and change the clipboard's contents, including file names copied from an Explorer window. Disable or override Windows' own shortcut keys such as Win+E and Win+R. Alleviate RSI with substitutes for Alt-Tab (using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons). Customize the tray icon menu with your own icon, tooltip, menu items, and submenus. Display dialog boxes, tooltips, balloon tips, and popup menus to interact with the user. Perform scripted actions in response to system shutdown or logoff. Detect how long the user has been idle. For example, run CPU intensive tasks only when the user is away. Automate game actions by detecting images and pixel colors. Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in other languages. Perform operation(s) upon a set of files that match a wildcard pattern. Work with the registry and INI files. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Automation NumberPad ControlPad turns the numeric keypad on your keyboard to a Windows command execution system. You may configure any numeric code to: Execute any program, open any document, open any web address or send any series of keystrokes to the operating system. Once ControlPad is running, press and hold the * key on the numeric keypad, for about 1 second. At this point, a small window will pop up, allowing you to enter any keyword or numeric code. Pressing the code followed by Enter will execute the associated command. Commands are easily configured through the same interface - activate the input dialog (press and hold *), enter the desired code and press the numpad Divide button to associate a new command. You may also use words instead of numeric codes. For laptop users (without a numeric keypad), there is a special Laptop Mode feature which will use F12 (press and hold) instead of * as the launch key. Portable Mode. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Clipboard Manager Ethervane Echo is a clipboard manager that sorts clipboard entries into tabs for easier access. Start Echo and it will begin capturing clips. Press Win+Insert (configurable) to bring up the main window. Scroll or find a clip, then press Enter to paste it into the active application window. A search is provided for finding clipboard entries. Clips are automatically sorted by date, with options to change the sorting order to alphabetical, application, use count, length or ID. The right-click menu offers to copy, paste and delete clips, and editing options. All information are stored in it's own database in the program folder. The program creates the database automatically on first run. The database is cleaned up ever 30 days by default, with options to change the frequency of the cleanup in the program preferences. It is even possible to keep the database in memory all the time and not on the computer’s hard drive. You can paste multiple clipboard entries at the same time into the active application window, integrate a spell checker (a download is available at the site.) Only captures text. Fully Unicode-enabled. Portable version. Size: 10.4MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Clock Vector Clock is a fully scalable collection of 10 attractive desktop alarm clocks. The setup program gives you a portable install option. There is even a Functional Desktop Alarm Clock designer software on the site (Vector Clock Designer) which you can design your own with an easy and expert mode. Size: 11.4MB. Win 2k/XP/Vista/7.
- Clock Countdown AleJenJesTimer Excellent countdown timer. Last Freeware. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Clock Stopwatch PC Chrono is a countdown timer capable of .mp3, .ogg or .wav file playback on completion. S1 S3 (suspend to RAM) S4 (hibernate) resume is supported; stopwatch; 12/24 hour clock; customizable voice notifications for all modes (timer, stopwatch and clock), and portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Copy Anything Quotepad just select some text in any application, press Ctrl+Shift+Q and the selected text will be saved to QuotePad together with the URL of the webpage or the tiltle of the document it was copied from. It stores the selections inside quotepad for future use. Reminders, quick filtering, automatic backup, time stamping, checklist, and print. Highly recommended. Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. Portable install option. DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
- Copy Anything SysExporter Copy the data you can't normally highlight and copy stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and Web Browser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file. Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- DeskTop DeskAngel Directly scroll the document under cursor, whenever it is active or not, while scrolling the wheel of the mouse, Maximize and restore window under cursor after click the wheel button of the mouse, Auto scrolling the document once keeping the wheel button pressed and scrolled one step, Toggle a window topmost after right click its title bar, Transform left + right click to alt + right click, to enable the translator feature for Lingoes or Babylon without touching keyboard, etc, Transparent a window with ctrl+alt+wheel scroll, avoid the black frame of the captured picture, Capture a screen range to clipboard or into a file, save the file path to clipboard, Add specified watermark to screen clipping, Change cursor shape while moving window, Dock window at edges of screen and more. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- DeskTop Icons DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for users who wish to save and restore the positions of icons for various screen resolutions. Minimizes to tray area for easy access. Portable. Size: 37.5KB Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.
- DeskTop Switcher WindowsPager is a desktop switcher for Windows Vista/XP/2000 to manage four virtual desktops. Four mini-desktops run on the task bar, which each represents a separate desktop. It does not create saved virtual desktops, but provides blanks for your use each time you run it. Handy for extensive multi-tasking. Portable no-install. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Google Maps Google Map Saver interfaces with Google maps and offers larger maps which you can set the resolution and save or print in various formats. It has all of the scroll, zoom, and type of map features that Googles interface has. It also lists the coordinates of the location which you enter. It downloads as a stand alone portable executable, no install. Size: 432 KB. Win XP/2000/Vista/7. Size: 432 KB. Win XP/2000/Vista/7.
- Java JavaRa Updates Sun Java and/or removes old java files or Java installs which Sun Java leaves behind. Portable. Size: 1MB. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.
- Keyboard Maniacs FARR Find and Run Robot (FARR) is a program for keyboard maniacs. It uses an adaptive live search function to rapidly find programs and documents on your computer as you type. Also, quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and share custom commands or install plugins to add tons of new features, like live search features for your clipboard history and your internet bookmarks, a popup a calculator with history tape and persistent variables; and many more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Kill Hung Process SuperF4 kills the currently selected program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the currently selected program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself if it really want to. You can also kill a process by pressing [the windows key]+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse. Note that the mouse cursor does not change to reflect that SuperF4 is in this mode. You can press escape or the right mouse button to exit this mode without killing a program. SuperF4 should be able to kill all kinds of processes, whether they are hung or not. Beware though, SuperF4 effectively kills the program and doesn't give it a chance to save unsaved work. Portable Mode. Size: 15 KB. Win All.
- Magnifyer VirtualMagnifyingGlass Full-featured screen magnifying glass that allows you to zoom in on an area of the screen for better readability. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Menu Quick Cliq is a compact portable menu based application launcher and productivity tool where add as many shortcuts as you want, create sub-menus, use custom colors, and more. It allows links to folders, files, programs, URLs, and command line operations as well as window management, 9 additional clipboards (CTRL+#), and Memos that hold frequently used bits of text, mouse gestures and more. Portable. Size: 894 KB. Windows XP/Vista/7.
- Mouse Gesture StrokesPlus is a lightweight mouse gesture recognition software with an incredible amount of options. Minimizes itself automatically on program start. A right-click on the system tray icon displays some of the most important program options. This includes enabling or disabling mouse gestures, running a test mode to draw gestures on the screen without executing the command, changing the button that initiates the command, and links to program preferences, configured actions and the program’s ignore list. Each action consists of the initial action button, the gesture itself and optional mouse or keyboard modifiers. New actions can be created globally or for a specific application. Portable. Size: 1.21MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- Network Activity Monitor Network Activity Indicator Windows 7 no longer includes the network activity monitor that displays the old 'two monitors' icon that flashed blue to show network activity on the System Tray. It indicates outgoing and incoming network packets on all available interfaces. Network Activity Indicator utility is a standalone executable which displays a system tray icon with which you can monitor your network traffic in Windows 7 using XP-like 'two monitors' icon on the System Tray. To customize program settings right click the mouse on the System Tray icon. Portable. Size: 338KB. Win 7. 32/64bit.
- Optimizer Win7 GIGATweaker is a free powerful and compact tool that allows you to optimize and tweak your Windows 7. It works with both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 and can be used as a portable application. GIGATweaker is completely portable and lightweight tool with built-in Startup Manager and Un-Install Manager. All changes made by GIGATweaker in the system are transparent through informative console. Size: 1.2MB. Windows 7.
- Optimizer Vista/7 FixWin can fix common Windows problems in a single click. Over 50 issues – such as a missing Recycle Bin are covered, and although it is designed for Windows 7 and Vista, many fixes work in XP too. FixWin detects whether you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed and accordingly offers you the relevant fixes only. While there are several tutorials already available on the Internet to deal with such annoyances, FixWin as a single utility was conceptualized, to fix some of the common annoyances which may be faced by a Windows user. Portable. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Optimizer Vista/7 Ultimate Windows Tweaker For those of you that remember and loved the TweakUI utility from Microsoft, Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware tool that takes the concept of the old TweakUI and supercharges it for Windows Vista and 7. You can tweak hundreds of settings and variables—system tray icons, the menu pop-up speed, security settings for the control panel, and a lot of other things you can't normally get to. It's a 380 KB, stand-alone portable application. Win Vista/7.
- Optimizer Services Vista/7 Services Optimizer also has complete support for Windows 7. Tweak your Windows services in an easy, automatic and safe way based on how you use your computer without requiring any technical knowledge. Have the power to control Windows services in an easy, safe and advanced way without getting involved with Windows services names and dependencies. Diagnose and fix Windows services and inspect your system performance and security status according to your current Windows services configurations. Create, apply and preview Services Profiles which help saving you a lot of time when dealing with multiple users and computers. Smart Rescue Center can restore default Windows services configurations in case of any problems using Services Snapshots. Portable Version. Win Vista/7.
- PC Performance Analyzer PerfView is a performance-analysis tool from Microsoft that helps isolate CPU- and memory-related performance issues. Portable single executable. Size: 14.9MB. Win Vista/2008/7.
- Prevent Sleep Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart. Especially when old Programs run on Windows-7 or Windows Vista. Here's more aggressive power-saving features with new rules. But not only that, it also prevents login off the computer, and the deactivation of the monitor or activation of the screen saver. Of course you can also manually disable all the options and then activate again, but with Don't Sleep one can save now many hand moves and also save time! And it's easier than ever. Don't Sleep has a timer that allows time control unblock, or shutdown the computer for a specified time. Runs in the system tray with nice options. Portable. Size: 24 KB. Win 98/2000/2003/2005/XP/Vista/7 32/64bit.
- Portable Creator RegistryRapper Not portable but copies installed programs setting and uses them to make a Portable program. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Portable Creator X-Launcher Enable almost every application to be used from a removable drive. X-Launcher can be easily recompiled to generate personalized launchers for each application. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Portable Operating System UNetbootin is a small, free, cross platform app that can download and install Linux (or other operating system) on a bootable USB drive or a hard drive partition. It supports a wide range of Linux builds (25+ and growing) out of the box that it will automatically download from the net, or it can work with any locally downloaded ISO images that you might want to use. UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Program Launcher Executor is a multi purpose launcher and a more advanced and customizable version of windows run. Keywords have properties like shortcuts, and you can for example drag-drop a shortcut/file/folder/favorite to add it as a keyword. Auto-completion for keywords, file system and history. URL detection. Keywords support parameters. There are many additional features that make this program BearWare's choice for this category. Portable. Size: 1.5MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Program Launcher+ CodySafe is simply the best Portable Applications menu offered for free. This software tool turns your USB portable drive to a computer-on-stick. Detect and prevent virus infection with ViruSense and keep drive healthy with Drive Doctor. The drive space gauge will inform on the free-used space ratio and advanced Applications Manager offers you the most convenient way to add, manage and remove portable applications, write pre-and post-run scripts, etc. It also has a find if lost feature. All USB Sticks.
- Program Launcher PStart is a start menu program for portable devices and every day computer use. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Program Updater Update Notifier is a small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates. Also you can see the latest updates for applications from your Watch List. Portable no installation needed. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Screen Marker ScreenMarker Draw on Windows with different size pen and color. This is also a good solution to create a mask over annoying flashing advertisements on web pages. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7. DemoA short demonstration of the program created with Screen2exe.
- Screen Mask Zorro is a utility to completely blank the screen except for a rectangular area selected by the user. This is especially useful for watching videos on your computer without being distracted by other programs. Also Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Search Assistant GGSearch is a handy tool for people who are spending lots of time searching the various newsgroups posts, images, links, Uncle Sam, Linux, news, Bsd, Microsoft, answers, stocks, viewer, web quotes, Froogle, directories, and many more options in Google. It runs in the system tray, and left clicking the tray icon brings up the search window. Once a search is entered, it opens your web browser for the results. Searches are customizable. Right clicking the tray icon brings up even more options. This software is not a product of Google nor is it related to Google. The application only makes use of some of Google’s goodies. You can extract the app folder using Universal Extractor rather than running the installer to get a portable version. Size: 336KB. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista /7.
- System Information WinAudit reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorized for ease of viewing and text searching. Whether your interest is in software compliance, hardware inventory, technical support, security or just plain curiosity, WinAudit has it all. The program has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows update and firewall settings. Also for Commercial use. Portable. Size: 865KB. Win PE/95/98/Me/NT3.51/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
- Services Manager SrvMan Windows Service Manager is a small tool that simplifies all common tasks related to Windows services. It can create services (both Win32 and Legacy Driver) without restarting Windows, delete existing services and change service configuration. It has both GUI and Command-line modes. It can also be used to run arbitrary Win32 applications as services (when such service is stopped, main application window is closed automatically). Portable. Size 360 KB. Win All both x86 and x64 systems.
- Startup Manager WhatInStartup displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more. It allows you to easily disable or delete unwanted programs that run in your Windows startup. You can use it on your currently running instance of Windows, as well as you can use it on external instance of Windows in another drive. WhatInStartup also supports a special "Permanent Disabling" feature - If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows, WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again. Portable. Size: 73KB. Win 2000 thru 7.
- System Manager System Nucleus is a powerful tool for viewing, editing and managing system resources and settings, consolidating functionality that normally requires numerous tools into a single interface designed to make these tasks easier than ever. An emphasis has been placed on batch processing, filtering, and easy visual identification of items using distinctive icons. Portable Version. Size: 3.5 MB. Win XP/2003/Vista/7.
- Task Manager SystemExplorer Information on Processes, Performance, History, Windows, Startup, Explorer, IE add-ons, Uninstallers, Services, Drivers, Connections, Opened files, registry and file before and after snapshots, suspicious file checks, online process databases, and easy access to System Utilities. Portable version. Win XP/Vista/7.
- Tech Took Kit Tech Toolkit is a collection of portable programs for a computer repair utility kit. Download the file and unzip it to your thumb drive. Use Ketarin.exe to first download all your tools and it will automatically extract them to their categorized folders. Once Downloaded you can then open Pstart.exe, its menu is already configured to show the Downloaded tools. You would then use Ketarin weekly to auto-update all these tech tools so you would always have a fresh copy of the program on your USB. This is a great demonstration of Ketarin and PStart usage. The Tech Tools are very nice also. Size: 199,906 KB. Win All.
- Time Display Title bar Date-Time displays the date and/or time on the right hand side of the titlebar of whatever program is active. I used Universal Extractor to decompile the setup program and the apps folder is all you need for a nice portable application that applies the day, date, and time in the title bar of any window you have active. Size: 212 KB. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Time Stopper RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify. This utility doesn't change the current system date and time of your computer, but it only injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application. You can run multiple applications simultaneously, each application works with different date and time, while the real date/time of your system continues to run normally. Some people use this to stop time trial software from timing out though this is not recommended. There are other uses for it. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Tray Notify Cleanup Notification Area Cleaner When you uninstall programs, change locations or remove portable programs from your computer, your past notification icons in Win 7 retain these old entries. If you would like to clean these up use the following procedure. Notification Area Cleaner allows you to remove obsolete notification area icons in Windows 7 (i.e. icons for programs that are no longer installed) which appear in the list icons for which you can change the notification area behavior. To remove the notification area icon cache just run the executable and click the Clean button. Running this tool will basically reset all your notification area icons and keep only your active ones. To manually clean up the past notification area icons in your system tray perform a registry search (always backup your registry) for the "TrayNotify" folder that contains the "IconStreams" and "PasteIconsStream" entries and delete both. Now hit Ctrl +Alt + Del to open Task Manager and kill "explorer.exe" process (your entire taskbar will dissappear). In Task Manager click "File > New Task (Run...) " and enter "explorer.exe" and click OK to start explorer.exe again. You Task bar will re-appear and all past icons have now been removed. This is exactly what this program does. Portable. Size: 57KB. Win 7. 32/64bit.
- Unit Converter Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! For some conversions that you may never use, you can hide them to simplify the unit listings. A restart of Convert will bring you to the last conversion you entered. Portable. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- USB Ejector ProEject is an easy to use application which allows you to safely dismount a removable drive by closing running applications and open windows, as well as clearing the registry and folders of any trace that the USB drive might have left behind. ProEject will remove traces of programs in the MRU (most recently used) sections of the Windows Registry, as well as entries created in the Ԓun on Startup key. As an addition ProEject also checks for shortcuts created in the SendTo, Recent, Quick Launch, Pinned (Windows 7 only!) and the Windows Firewall. Portable Stealth. Size: 900KB. Win XP/Vista/Win7.
- USB Image USB Image Tool Create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick. Portable. Requires .NET. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
- USB Utility Check Flash will test, manage and format your USB flash drive. You can also run a read-write cycle on your USB flash drive, which returns not only the speed but also any errors (read/write or physical) in your USB drive. The software does not rectify the problem but merely reports it. File Size: 812KB. Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- USB Write Protector USB WriteSHIELD Protector prevents write access to USB storage devices, such as a USB stick. Portable. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Utilities Glary Utilities is an all-in-one utility that offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. Monitor the activity of Bluetooth devices around you, and notifies you when a new device is detected. I recommend the Portable download or the no tool bar download. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Volume Controller Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. It allows you to define a set of rules for determining when the wheel will be used for changing the sound volume. For example: You can configure Volumouse to use your mouse wheel for volume control when the Alt key is hold down, when the left mouse button is down, when the mouse cursor is over the task bar, and so on. When the conditions that you define are not satisfied, your mouse wheel will be used for the regular scrolling tasks, exactly as before. Portable mode. Size: 80 KB. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Window Hider ClickyGone is a window hider application. It is used to quickly hide windows on the desktop and the tabs on the task bar. Removing sensitive materials without closing programs or losing documents helps protect your privacy. A unique and very fast way to hide windows by clicking them. Also has a boss key feature that hides the active window and mutes the sound, a hide in system tray, Hide and Priority menu item in the applications system menu (Where it asks you to Close through the task bar). Portable. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
VIDEO
- AVI Repair DivFix++ Repair or fix broken AVI file streams by re-building index part of file. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Catalog Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. Audio, software, book, movie and photo collection cataloger. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself. Retrieve information from services like Amazon.com, Imdb.com, Softpedia and MusicBrainz. Platform independent and completely portable. Requires Java. FOSS.
- Converter iWisoft Free Video Converter can easily convert video/audio between all popular formats. It can convert video/audio from one format to another, rip audio from video, convert video to image series, animated gif. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, video size, audio channel, sample rate, audio volume etc. for an output format. Convert all popular video formats, including HD video. Rip audio from video. Convert video to animated GIF. Optimized profiles for many digital devices. Adjust format parameters. Merge video. Trim video. Crop video. Add watermark on video. Support .srt subtitle. Size: 8.7MB. Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.
- Converter VirtualDubAllows the user to add a number of filters to help in converting video files from one format or codec to another. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Downloader VDownloader Download or view videos from virtually all video sites. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Movie Database Coollector is a huge encyclopedia of movies and series, that you can search in all possible ways, and personalize by rating all the movies you've seen. You can also manage your video collection. Your DVD, your Blu-ray, your VHS, whatever. Even the video files on your computer disk, which you can conveniently scan and play. Also, the database of existing videos will simplify the input of your owned videos. And thanks to the up-to-date shopping information, you can grow your collection at the best price. Size: 107MB. Portable setup option. Win XP/Vista/7 32/64 bit.
- Player Media Player Classic Home Cinema is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like Windows Media Player v6.4, but has many additional features. Portable version. Size: 36.1MB. Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. 32/64 bit.
- Player/Recorder VLC is the Swiss Army knife of media players: it will play pretty much any file type you throw at it, as well as rip CDs and DVDs, convert video files to iPod-friendly formats and stream media to other computers. For Portable mode, download the zip file and extract the files to a folder of your choice. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Screen Mask Zorro is a utility to completely blank the screen except for a rectangular area selected by the user. This is especially useful for watching videos on your computer without being distracted by other programs. Also Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Screen Recorder CamStudio Record all screen and audio activity and create AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into small streaming Flash Videos. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Steganography/Watermark Puff is Advanced Steganography & Watermarking - Image/Audio/Video (codec independent)/Flash support - Multiple carriers chains (up to 512MB hidden stream) - Random per-chain-512bit-cryptography-algorhythms - Data whitening - Adaptive LSB + Bits selection level. It's an evolution for advanced users of traditional steganography tools. Steganography is a smart way to hide data into other files, called carriers. Modified carriers will look like the original ones, without perceptible changes. Best carriers are videos, images and audio files, since everybody can send/receive/download them without suspects. Watermarking is here stated as the action of signing a file with your copyright mark. This program does it in a steganographic way, applied to videos, images and audio files. Your copyright mark will be invisible. Portable. Size: 226 KB. Win All.
WEB DEVELOPMENT
- Color Manager KolorGenerator A tool designed especially for people working with colors. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Email Link Encoder Email Link Encoder This antispam software utility enables you to encode your email links on your website so they can't be extracted by rogue internet spiders looking for email addresses to add to junk mailing lists. This will help prevent you from getting huge amounts of spam. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Encrypt Source Code HTML Lock is a small portable utility by Nikhil Baligan that can encrypt HTML source codes in such a manner that results in completely a unreadable manner. However browsers will have absolutely no problem in decoding the code. Size: 221KB. Win All.
- Link Checker XenuLinkSleuth Checks Web sites for broken links. Outstanding program. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- PHP Apache Distribution XAMPP Easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- PHP Test Server QuickPHP PHP Development Web Server for Testing and Debugging your PHP Scripts. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Position Finder Web Position Finder Find a website position on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Msn, AltaVista/2008/7. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- RSS Publisher RSSBuilder Easily create RSS news feeds and podcasts for your web site. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Text Editor SynWrite is a handy, easy to use text editor designed to edit programs source codes with such features as syntax highlighting, code folding, tree structure, auto-completion and code templates. It also offers support for many encodings. Syntax highlighting is managed by a rich library of so called exers Almost all types of programming languages are included. Other main features of editor are codefolding, organize code in syntax tree, color-based view of changes in document and a feature called ԓyncEditԮ SyncEdit allows to do an inplace synchronized edit of all instances of a string. Syn also works as plugin for famous file manager Total Commander. Portable version. Size: 1.8MB. Win All.
- Text Editor NotePad++Source code editor and notepad replacement. Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, WYSIWYG, User Defined Syntax Highlighting, Auto-completion, Multi-Document, Multi-View, Regular Expression Search/Replace supported, Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported, Dynamic position of Views, File Status Auto-detection, Zoom in and zoom out, Multi-Language environment supported, Bookmark, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, and Macro recording and playback. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- Text Editor PSPad is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
- WYSIWYG HTML Editor BlueGriffon is a WYSIWYG content editor and an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards. Portable version. Size: 11.4MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
- WYSIWYG HTML Editor Kompozer is similar to Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
Portable Websites
Portable Programs
Portable Programs do not require installation. You simply copy the folders and files to any directory you choose and create a shortcut to the executable program file...usually programname.exe.
All of these listings are portable in that respect.
Portable Stealth
Portable stealth programs define portable programs that do not write to the registry or anywhere outside its own program folders and leaves no trace on the machine the program is run on. This is the most desired portable program.
While most of these programs listed are portable stealth, all are not as some may require java, or .NET, write to the registry or need some other type of external support. While this is not always most desirable, some programs are still good enough to list.
