Been very handy indeed, I find some of the settings a little confusing but have yet to have it crash on me.

I can't find a setting to stop itself adding an option in the right click "New" section on the desktop though

WinHTTack v3.4x is very incompatible with multi-core CPU's. A symptom of this is the program randomly closing during mirrors. Couple of potential fixes for anyone having this problem:
1. Return to v3.32
2. Use imagecfg or similar to limit the WinHTTrack exe to a single CPU core. I have a Quad Core CPU and WinHTTrack closing itself every few minutes during a mirror was driving me crazy, so I adopted this solution. No closing since then I'm happy to say.

Chris, instead of silly workarounds why don't you report the errors to the programmers?

Just tried it. Seems to run fine, but the real problem is that its not a real mirroring program - it inserts all kinds of crap comments in the html files.

Sets up an explorer references to its own filetype (without asking)

No need to get the "X" version, which is outdated.Get the newest portable version from the download section, at the app´s own website.
IMPORTANT TIP: after downloading your website, you can turn it into a single .EXE package by using WebSite Zip Packer (http://www.spadixbd.com/wsz/) and you can take your downloaded site with you on a pen drive.

@Observer
The X-WinHTTrack portable package is not outdated (V3.43-9).

PJ: I did. Even they recommended returning to v3.32

F.Y.I
English Users: Must use "X-WinHTTrack.ini" from "English_Users" folder.

I just mirrored 2 websites filled with tutorials i use and the end-result is astonishing!
the links have all been adjusted to the offline location.
all corresponding images and files have been included.
it's even capable of syncing, and able to create a database for searching with words. It even has a built in browser, so you can browse the mirrored webpage.

Prior to this i was using Web2PDF, a free online service that was only capable of creating a snapshot of 1 page afterwhich i had to edit with Acrobat to adjust the links and stuff, no support for links, and it created a watermark on each page.

this is probably one of the most amazing software i have used.

Thanks to the author for making this free!
Def. Recommend and a def. 10.

Some sites (not all), though, keep "phoning home" (or rather to third parties), every time you view a page offline. I wish HTTrack would handle this better. Otherwise it's a great program. I'm mentioning this as some might be unaware of connections getting established in the background while they are viewing their favourite pages offline.

I've tried a few others over time and keep coming back to WinHTTrack. So lucky this program has been maintained over the years.