Personally , I hope that members of Portablefreeware forums work together to create a bootable freeware cd which can be used to troubleshoot the system and can be run on any operating system.
this cd may contain many different freeware utilities such as disc , tweaking , office , security ...
(the same way like hiren bootcd)

why the big green fontz ?????

check out KitchenSink Iz about close as you're gonna get.

This was my list - still the same programs apart from VLC which I changed to FreeFileSync. As I said before this was because at the time of posting FreeFileSync didn't exist!

And coincidentally my post is below Checker, just like here!

With regards to a bootable CD, it will be unlikely to ever happen because firstly Linux would be the main distribution (for ease) and considering the applications referenced on TPFC are mostly for Windows users, this is a huge hurdle.

Why not Windows? - I think this would cause huge problems with licensing etc...and why re-invent the wheel! There is a program out there called UBCD4Win which might be what you are looking for. Or put your programs on a CD and you have created a 'kind-of' boot of a CD!

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You mean like this?

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Edit: I just saw that guinness already mentioned this.

"OpenOffice - OK" ?
You're forgetting about the leader, SoftMaker Office
And where are:
-Audio player
-Video player
-Image editor
-Email client
-Miranda
?

I'm not really a fan of such bundles. Depending on how you use your computer, a list of useful applications varies greatly - and then add user preferences...every suite will contain a lot of useless stuff.

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If "you actually use" means "me", not "us", here is a quite accurate list of portable programs I use, sorted by popularity:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?q=%5BSYSTEM%5D&so=p



Why bootable?

Most live CDs I know are Linux-based because GNU/Linux can be redistributed and is open source (it's much easier to get hosting if the project is open source).

I have multiple partitions in my external hard drive. One partition contains a GNU/Linux distribution and another holds my collection of portable applications. I rarely boot from that drive: doing so has too few advantages. (The most important advantage is ability to run software as root.) In addition, I've noticed that many good applications are only available for Windows.

There are situations which require a live CD, but they're rare. That is, portable applications are used every day while a live CD is (hopefully) used very rarely. Both are needed but combining them isn't a good idea, at least not yet.

If you only want to use live CD "to troubleshoot the system" and other admin tasks, check out the link in my signature. (No, I'm not the author of that project, just the documentation writer.)

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