TestDisk is a powerful drive and data recovery software that is designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again. This can be caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses, or of course human error (such as accidentally deleting your partition table).
The program is cross-platform with recovery tools for a long list file systems and includes the also-portable recovery software PhotoRec.
Note: Use with caution; it's recommended that you read the documentation and take your time. The software can easily made dramatic and difficult-to-reverse system modifications.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | No |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch testdisk_win.exe. |
What's new? | See: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_7.2_Release |
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AllDup removes duplicate files from one or multiple directories and includes a preview function using Windows own tools (IE, MediaPlayer and WordPad). Can find duplicates by file name, file extension, file content, file dates, file attributes. The program can also help identify and remove music and or image files that are not only slightly different.
Multiple files, directories, and drives can all be scanned, as well as ZIP or RAR archives (with an optional file size limit), along with filters for file types and/or folders.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the "Portable Edition" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AllDupPortable.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
Similar/alternative apps: | AntiDupl.net |
What's new? | See: http://alldup.de/alldup_help/alldup_version.php |
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MIKLO
on 2017-10-12 15:04
Working as "freeware" for me :) very nice software does all I want and more thanks for job well done.
Special
on 2018-12-23 20:30
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It seems that with v4.2.0 it now phone home no matter what on every startup, 4.1.8 didn't do this and yes, the option "Check for updates on startup" is disabled. |
Database .NET is a powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool. The program allows the administration of local or remote databases to browse objects, design tables, edit rows, export data, create new databases and run queries with a consistent interface. The program includes table/data editor, index editor, syntax highlighting, SQL profiler, code manager and multiple query tabs.
Supported databases include SQL Server, SQL Azure, Firebird, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, IBM DB2 and Informix, Sybase ASE, MS Access and Excel, dBase IV, FoxPro, Data Sources, ODBC DSN and OData. Can export to CSV, XML, TXT, XLS, or SQL Print Query Results.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET Framework 4 |
Stealth: ? | No. Creates an empty registry key [HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\fishDatabase]. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Free for personal use |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Database Browser Portable |
What's new? | See: https://fishcodelib.com/Database_new.htm |
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LonerD
on 2018-09-21 12:43
NET Framework isn't necessary for this program (even despite the .NET in name)
bushy555
on 2019-07-01 23:23
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2018: Fails on my Win XP. Description says it is XP compatible with .NET4 |
OneLoupe is an easy-to-use zoom/magnify program with options for zooming or via hotkey. Includes options for full screen, realtime (always visible) and more.
Note that additional settings, including the size and level of the default zoom view (2x zoom in a 600x150 pixel window) can be modified after the initial launch via the OneLoupe.ini file.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Create an empty file OneLoupe.ini (otherwise it will be created in the user profile folder) Launch OneLoupe.exe (Win 98-NT), OneLoupe_uc.exe or OneLoupe_x64.exe. NOTE: You may need to right-click on the tray icon and select Language - |
Similar/alternative apps: | DesktopZoom |
What's new? | See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/OneLoupe/History |
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webfork
on 2015-07-08 23:20
The menu system is a little odd but it's got a lot of cool functionality and tweaks for a small zoom program.
Ennovy
on 2021-06-18 14:37
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Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. |
Homedale lets you search for Wi-Fi / WLAN Access Points and monitor their signal. See an overview of all available access points with their strength, encryption type [WEP/WPA/WPA2], speed, and channel. You can also monitor selected access points in a graph over the time.
Supports logging to a text file or connect/disconnect from a Wi-Fi / WLAN access point.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
1. Download and unzip to a folder of your choice 2. In the same folder, create an empty text file and rename it portable.dat 3. Launch Homedale.exe |
Similar/alternative apps: | WirelessNetworkWatcher |
What's new? | See: https://www.the-sz.com/products/homedale/history.txt |
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__philippe
on 2021-03-25 06:08
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Homedale v1.95 also runs like a charm under good ole XP...;-) |
JPEG Lossless Rotator is an application for rotating JPEG files performs a special "lossless" algorythim using block transformation without a decoding and re-encoding process, which preserves the image quality. If the image can't be rotated without losing some pixels, the program will prompt you with the costs in pixels.
Features batch and automatic rotation, image flipping, renaming and deletion of files, and display of EXIF-data.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. HKCU\Software\AnnyStudio\JPEGRotator |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: |
Optionally, delete unnecessary languages (.lng files) within lang folder |
Similar/alternative apps: | FastStone Photo Resizer, Tinuous |
What's new? |
10.1, released 8 August 2022. What's new: Added dark mode support. Improved HiDPI font size support. Minor updates for v10.1: 7 October 2022: Updated the folder selection dialog that opens via the “Browse” button, to fix the issue where some folders were intermittently missing from the list. 20 September 2023: Fixed the minor bug where the file name highlighting was not updated after pressing the “Reset EXIF Orientation to Normal” button. 11 December 2023: Removed the “In the future, do not show me this dialog box” checkbox from the crop warning dialog, because it was stored by Windows in its registry and was difficult for the users to change later. Now the crop warning dialog is controlled only by Options – Display crop warning in JPEG Lossless Rotator. See: https://annystudio.com/software/jpeglosslessrotator/#versionhistory |
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stisev
on 2017-03-19 07:50
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FYI it's not stealth. writes an empty folder and key to registry. |
CrystalDiskMark is benchmarks disk performance, measuring sequential and random 4KB/512KB reads/writes for any storage device. The target device does not need to be formatted.
A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).
Alternatively, CrystalDiskMark Portable is also available, which auto-switches between x86 and x64.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskMark32.exe or DiskMark64.exe (for 64-bit OS). |
Similar/alternative apps: | HD Tune, IsMyHdOK |
What's new? | See: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/crystaldiskmark-history/ |
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Checker
on 2015-08-01 18:52
@ smaragdus: First mentioned by malikorx69 [07 Feb 2008], so this is the forum topic.
AndTheWolf
on 2016-11-07 21:09
CrystalDiskinfo should not be listed under Similar/alternative apps for CrystalDiskMark. CrystalLDiskMark benchmarks, whereas CrystalDiskinfo supplies a lot of disk information, but does NOT benchmark.
webfork
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A remarkable number of commercial disks are benchmarked using this tool. It's a must-have for comparing hardware performance. |
TreeSize Free shows you instantly which files or folders are taking up the most space on your harddisk without using heavy system resources or reading the drive extensively.
Alternatively, TreeSize Free Portable is pre-configured to be portable, automatically adjusts paths and is stealth.
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Runs on: | Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. Creates an empty JAM Software\TreeSize Free folder in %AppData%. If the context menu integration is enabled/disabled, settings will be written to that folder. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Liteware |
How to extract: |
Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TreeSizeFree.exe. Optionally, to disable automatic update check on start-up:
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Similar/alternative apps: | GetFolderSize |
What's new? | See: https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/changes.shtml |
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gbrao
on 2021-07-02 08:05
v4.5 (02 July 2021):
Ennovy
on 2022-08-22 11:29
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Versie 4.6 is now provided as a 64-bit application. If you still have a 32-bit Windows operating system, continue to use V4.5. |
EmEditor is a tabbed text editor with themes, syntax highlighting, stay-on-top and customizable keyboard mapping. The program supports batch find-and-replace, regular expressions and more.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Internet Explorer v11 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Liteware |
How to extract: |
Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch EmEditor.exe. Skip the 30-day evaluation of the full version by selecting the Help menu and click Downgrade. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Notepad++ |
What's new? | See: https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/history/ |
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smaragdus
on 2018-05-04 06:56
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FocusOn Image Viewer lets you view, organize, and make changes to images without modifying the original. The program includes edition tools like color, brightness, rotation, frames, and various filters. Thumbnail views, broad image format support, easy sharing, and metadata tools are also available. Batch operations are available for modifying or renaming any number of files, as well as automatic archiving and image management.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer, IrfanView, XnView |
What's new? | https://pintosoft.com/en/post/foni1.31_en |
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Andrew Lee
on 2023-08-20 02:36
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Regarding the previous few comments about v1.29, I have responded in the forum: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=105408#p105408 |