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Emsisoft Emergency Kit v2022.12.0.11730

lwc on 6 Dec 2022
  • 452MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jan 2022
  • Suggested by joby_toss

Emsisoft Emergency Kit contains a collection of programs to scan for malware including viruses, worms, trojans, adware, keyloggers and more. The program also has cleaning tools and methods to remove stubborn leftovers created by malware.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice and execute. Launch Start Emergency Kit Scanner.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Spybot - Search & Destroy
Latest comments
ishldgetoutmore on 2016-03-18 18:23

Sophos detected Mal/EncPk-HL and blocked access to the website.

demon.devin on 2017-11-21 15:11

This version will leave trash behind in the registry and also leaves a Windows Service running. For a real stealth version of this application visit the thread I created for it here: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23624

Or visit the thread I started on PortableApps.com: https://portableapps.com/node/57116

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StreamArmor v4.1

lwc on 6 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Aug 2016
  • Suggested by guinness

StreamArmor is the sophisticated tool for discovering hidden alternate data streams (ADS) as well as clean them completely from the system. It's advanced auto analysis coupled with online threat verification mechanism makes it the best tool available in the market for eradicating the evil streams.

NOTE: The main website download link has switch to an encrypted installer. Linking to softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The portable version is in the "Portable Version" subfolder
  3. Launch StreamArmor.exe
What's new? See https://securityxploded.com/streamarmor.php#ReleaseHistory
Latest comments
Mike.S.G. on 2011-04-04 10:39

@Magibon:

My comment was a bit premature, I'm not sure why I worded it that way... Better said I suppose would have been - "someone may want to look into this more."

Emka on 2013-12-16 14:32

v2.5 out, still portable?

Emka on 2014-12-06 14:33

v3.0 out

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AutoIt v3.3.16.1 Updated

lwc on 24 Apr 2024
  • 29MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Klaatu

AutoIt is a BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks or perform user interface testing.

Users new to the program are encouraged to read an introduction (thanks guinness.)

Note: the outdated (from 2012) AutoIt Portable allows you to create a portable environment of SciTE4AutoIt3 and AutoIt together, as well as cleaning AppData and opening the program editor with sample scripts (also thanks to guinness).

A 64 bit version is available (within the folder).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Every time one compiles a script (at least through SciTE=>Tools=>Build) it creates the folder %LocalAppData%\AutoIt v3\ (specifically %LocalAppData%\AutoIt v3\Aut2exe) for temp files. But since the files are temporary (only existing during compilation) the folder is at least usually empty. See bug report. You might want to run SciTE through a Program Portabilizer set to delete the aforementioned folder upon exit.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Optionally download an enhanced version of the built-in editor.
  3. Uncompiled scripts can be:
    • Edited (and also launched) with SciTe\SciTE.exe ((32 bit while editing)
    • Directly launched via AutoIt3.exe or AutoIt3_x64.exe (for 64 bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: AutoHotkey
What's new? See: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/history.htm
Latest comments
Pendrive on 2022-03-08 18:20

v3.3.16.0

Pendrive on 2022-12-02 21:23

v3.3.16.1 released some time ago (19 September, 2022).

Mawg on 2023-10-17 09:26

I downloaded this and the linked portable SciTE4AutoIt3. I put the latter into a subdirectory of this (named SciTE4AutoIt3), and when I run `AutoIt3.exe HelloWorld.au3` from the AutoIt directory, I get a pop-up "It Appears AutoIt Portable was unable to load the SciTEGlobal.properties". How do I configure things?

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CLCL v2.1.3

Ennovy on 1 Dec 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by Ezzetabi

CLCL is a clipboard caching utility that supports all clipboard formats, including bitmaps. It comes with a built-in viewer for examining clipboard contents and additional features via plugins, a number of which can be downloaded from the website.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package plus optionally additional plugins (formats and tools) and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Edit clcl_app.ini changing portable=0 to portable=1
  3. Launch CLCL.exe

When adding plugin DLLs, make sure you use relative paths (e.g. if you put tool_text.dll in a "Plugins" folder, use .\Plugins\tool_text.dll) to ensure maximum portability.
Similar/alternative apps: Ditto
What's new?
  • Enabled scrolling by mouse drag in image format (BITMAP, DIB).

See Japanese changelog here
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smaragdus on 2015-09-26 23:24

After 10 years of inactivity, now the developer is releasing a version after version, nice ;)

lintalist on 2015-10-05 22:48

I like(d) CLCL a lot, but on Windows 8/64bit it has a bug for me. I'd set it up to show 19 items in the menu so that the letter 't' is the shortcut for templates menu, unfortunately it doesn't properly register the hotkey of the CLCL program I think because when I press alt-t in any program it always pops up an empty template menu (from CLCL) which shouldn't happen because it not a global hotkey.
Good alternative I found was ArsClip - http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=734 - and set it up as CLCL as close a possible. Still like CLCL though.

zorro on 2019-12-16 05:06

Unfortunately the new version 2.10 is not stealth any more - it creates a folder "CLCL" with settings and history in AppData. I tried entering the program path for "WorkDir" in the "general.ini", but the folder is still created. Reverting to version 1.12...

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NexusFont v2.7.1

Andrew Lee on 1 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Barrette

NexusFont Viewer is a font viewer and manager. You can view all installed fonts, check font details, activate/deactivate fonts, export a font as bitmap, and more.

Category:
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 version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch nexusfont.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files
Similar/alternative apps: FontViewOK
What's new?
  • Added "Delete" option in edit tag dialog.
  • Added tag filter options (Not Contains Any Tags, Not Contains All Tags)
Latest comments
xor on 2015-04-28 20:50

Likewise it's great to be here :)

smaragdus on 2015-11-08 20:48

I have downloaded the latest version(2.6.2.1870) yet NexusFont finds some ghost update.

Provy on 2017-03-13 15:15

Thanks for the .ini tip, Christian. Otherwise, the program does "call home" looking for updates.

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Diffinity v0.9.4

Andrew Lee on 1 Dec 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by billon

Diffinity is a text comparison and merging tool focused on source code differences. The program compares the contents of two text files and displays the differences by line as well as individually modified characters/words. The program supports folder comparison, drag and drop, a thumbnail view of all differences, instance and syntax highlighting, update as-you-type (live view), customisable interface, and more.

Displays differentiation between changed, removed and added lines. Auto-detects Unicode encoding.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
Stealth: ? No. Writes Diffinity.exe.log to AppData folder.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and using 7-Zip extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch Diffinity.exe
  3. Go to 'Preferences' and check 'Save settings file in application folder'
Optionally, delete uninstall.exe and $PLUGINSDIR
Similar/alternative apps: Text Compare, TextDiff, X-WinMerge
What's new? See: https://truehumandesign.se/s_diffinity.php#versionhistory
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2019-10-25 04:20

It does appear to be stealth? When I first ran it, it created a 'appData/Roaming/Diffinity/diffinity.cfg' file, but if you copy that file to the portable location, delete the appdata folder and run Diffinity again, the cfg file isn't created.

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WirelessConnectionInfo v1.17

Andrew Lee on 26 Nov 2022
  • 106KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

WirelessConnectionInfo displays general information and statistics about the active WiFi connection, including the SSID, BSSID, PHY Type, Signal Quality, Receiving rate, Transmission Rate, Authentication Algorithm, Channel Number, Total number of transmitted/received frames, and more...

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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. Launch WirelessConnectionInfo.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).
  • Added 'Copy Value' option.
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2016-06-22 17:13

Very nice and way useful 4me... thanks for your hard work on this software.
MIKLO

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WinAudit v3.4.3

Andrew Lee on 24 Nov 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by Billy Run

WinAudit performs a rapid and exhaustive audit of installed software, license information, security configuration, hardware inventory, network settings etc. The report can be save in various formats (text, PDF, HTML etc.), sent via email or exported to a database via ODBC.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: EUPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinAudit.exe.
Latest comments
I am Baas on 2015-10-11 07:14

@ripu

Is it not?

ripu on 2015-10-13 10:15

When I posted that comment, the "Stealth:" information was missing. So I asked. Now it's been added.

AndTheWolf on 2022-11-24 12:44

Now at version 3.4.3

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Restart on Crash v1.6.4

Andrew Lee on 21 Nov 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

Restart on Crash is an monitoring tool that will watch the applications that you specify and automatically relaunch any program that hangs or crashes. You can add any number of applications to monitor, enable/disable them individually and edit the command line that will be used to restart an application.

Especially useful for unstable but critical programs.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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. Launch RestartOnCrash.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Splat
What's new? See: https://w-shadow.com/blog/2009/03/04/restart-on-crash/
Latest comments
webfork on 2019-01-13 15:25

@AndTheWolf: updated, thanks for the notice and the link

AndTheWolf on 2022-11-21 13:40

Now at version 1.6.4

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OpenSaveFilesView v1.16

Andrew Lee on 15 Nov 2022
  • 109KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

OpenSaveFilesView displays the list of files that you previously opened with the standard Windows open/save dialog-box. The program shows a variety of details including filename, extension, order (the order that the files were opened for every file extension), open time (available only for the last opened file of every file type), file modified/created time, file size and file attributes.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch OpenSaveFilesView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added "Don't Load Icons" option. When it's turned on, OpenSaveFilesView doesn't load the icon of every filename.
  • Added command-line option to set the "Don't Load Icons" option:
  • OpenSaveFilesView.exe /DontLoadIcons 1
  • You should turn on the "Don't Load Icons" option if OpenSaveFilesView crashes with exception in combase.dll
Latest comments
DarkShadow on 2015-10-30 20:06

@billon: 32-bit download still gives you v1.07 !

Checker on 2015-10-30 20:09

@DarkShadow: That's why I presently didn't update to v1.08 ;)

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AutoText v8.0

agam on 13 Nov 2022
  • 306KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by agam

AutoText offers in a small tooltip window saved words, texts, phrases, snippets etc. during typing in any other program and will insert the selected item directly to the cursor position. In case of unsuccessful search, Space, Return, PgUp, PgDn etc. closes the small window, so that fast and liquid typing is not disturbed. Three different search methods can be set.

In addition AutoText monitors the clipboard and saves the last X text entries of the clipboard, which can then be retrieved as well.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AutoText.exe.
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2019-05-12 10:30

Download link is a 404

webfork on 2019-05-19 16:25

@hamasaki: just tested on my side and not seeing an error

bawldiggle on 2023-02-25 22:36

There are four auto-text tools called "AutoText" this one is by Persoft.
"Jitbit" and "Auto Text Software" also have there own "AutoText" apps. Then there is MS Words "AutoText" just to add to the mix.
Persoft home page is very minimalist. No dedicated home page. No documenation. No help, No contacts. No copyright declaration.

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FUPX v3.2

gbrao on 12 Nov 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by jack

FUPX (formerly Free UPX) allows you to compress or decompress EXE, DLL, OCX, BPL, CPL and other files. It offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without the need for accessing the command-line.

The program is an advanced interface for the UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables). It uses the Microsoft Portable Executable and COFF Specification.

Alternatively, FUPX Portable is in PortableApps.com Format and includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the app.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch fupx.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PortableApps AppCompactor
What's new? See:
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/free-upx/#changelog
Latest comments
__philippe on 2017-02-22 13:39

For the Facebook-allergic crowd, might as well use directly the original Command-Line UPX engine:

Terse CLI simplicity:

upx  -l sample1.exe  (Checking whether PE is packed with UPX)
upx -d sample1.exe  (Decompressing an UPX-packed PE)
upx     sample2.exe  (Compressing a plain PE)


UPX engine additional pointers:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=85420#p85420

gbrao on 2018-09-18 23:40

FUPX v2.5 seems to only support UPX 3.95 64-bit ( not 32-bit).

jack on 2018-09-19 12:51

@gbrao
There was an error in the script creating the distribution files. It was my mistake, not a deliberate act.
I uploaded the corrected file FUPX_PORTABLE.7z to the server and now everything should be OK.
Hint: To set the 32-bit version of UPX, click the "Options" button on the toolbar. Then, on the "UPX version" list, select "3.95 32-bit" and click "Close".
Sorry for the inconvenience.

@smaragdus
I removed the "Facebook" button from the toolbar.

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NetConnectChoose v1.10

Andrew Lee on 12 Nov 2022
  • 114KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

NetConnectChoose lets you choose the default Internet connection for a given application. This is useful for security/speed (like using wired instead of wireless), to prevent overload, or save high bandwidth only for critical applications. Note that each connection must come from a different network adapter.

The program also displays extensive information about every active network/Internet connection, including network adapter name, MAC Address, Name Servers, MTU, Interface Speed, current incoming/outgoing data speed, number of received/sent packets, received/sent bytes, and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NetConnectChoose.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: In some network configurations, NetConnectChoose failed to set the default Internet connection.
  • Added 'Metric' column.

NTFSLinksView v1.33

Andrew Lee on 8 Nov 2022
  • 66KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

NTFSLinksView shows you a list of all symbolic links and junctions in the specified folder, and their target paths. Microsoft Windows uses symbolic links and junction points of NTFS file system in order to make changes in the folders structure of Windows and keep the compatibility of applications written for older versions (pre-Vista). The program is useful for both diagnosis around linking issues and developers seeking to use symbolic links in their tools.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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. Launch NTFSLinksView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to stop the file system scan when you press the Esc key.

OutlookStatView v2.28

Andrew Lee on 6 Nov 2022
  • 129KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

OutlookStatView scans your Outlook mailbox and displays statistics about the users you communicate with. These insights can show who you spend the most time on, what times they are active, or if they are taking up a lot of inbox space.

Details for each user/email include the number of outgoing messages that you sent (separated by to/cc/bcc), the number of incoming messages, the total message size, and the client software. It also provides a time range that you send/received emails were sent or received.

A 64-bit version (only for use with Outlook 2010 64-bit) is available.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch OutlookStatView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to stop the Outlook mailbox scan when you press the Esc key.
Latest comments
webfork on 2014-08-02 02:03

Got some interesting data out of some of the analysis this program does. Glad to have it.

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MZCookiesView v1.60

Andrew Lee on 4 Nov 2022
  • 74KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by ClausValca

MZCookiesView is an alternative to the standard cookie manager provided by Netscape and Mozilla browsers. It displays the details of all cookies stored inside the cookies file (cookies.txt or cookies.sqlite) in one table and allows you to save the cookies list into text, HTML or XML file, delete unwanted cookies and backup/restore the cookies file.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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. Launch mzcv.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to keep the scroll position after refresh and after deleting cookies.
Latest comments
Shodan816 on 2011-03-01 06:34

Download working OK now.

fpb1386 on 2019-08-06 22:45

I want to downlaod this tool to check cookies

webfork on 2019-08-06 23:05

@fpb1386: if you're having download issues, please post in forums

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Easy RoboCopy v1.0.17

Andrew Lee on 31 Oct 2022
  • 466KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by c0d3br3ak

Easy RoboCopy is detailed copy manager with dozens of parameters to customize the copy process, such as filtering by name, attributes, synchronizing folders, etc. The program shows all available options in one form, along with descriptive names and tooltip help.

The program is an interface for the RoboCopy command-line application, available by default on Windows.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: The download file has three levels of ZIP or Exe files. 7-Zip and PeaZip can be used to drill down with little effort. These instructions do not assume that convenience:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a temporary folder.
  2. Extract from Robocopy v[version number] Setup.exe to a temporary folder.
  3. Extract from setup.zip to a folder of your choice. Optionally, omit unintsall.exe and uninstall.dat from the extraction.
  4. Launch EasyRoboCopy.exe
Windows XP users can download RoboCopy Version XP010 as a part of Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools.
Similar/alternative apps: XCOPY Frontend, FastCopy
What's new? See: http://tribblesoft.com/easy-robocopy/.
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2022-01-11 02:00

Really useful cmd tool.

Pieropol on 2022-10-29 10:57

The download link refer to version 1.015

Andrew Lee on 2022-10-31 08:21

@Pieropol: I have fixed the download link

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MZCacheView v2.21

Andrew Lee on 21 Oct 2022
  • 181KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by ClausValca

MZCacheView reads the cache folder of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape Web browsers and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last modified time, Last fetched time, Expiration time, Fetch count, Server name and more. You can select one or more items from the cache list and then extract the files to another folder, or copy the URLs list to the clipboard.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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. Launch MZCacheView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Show Milliseconds In Time' option (For 'Last Modified' and 'Last Fetched' columns).

LastActivityView v1.36

Mike.S.G. on 11 Oct 2022
  • 165KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

LastActivityView collects information from various sources on a running system and displays a log of actions made by the user and events that occurred on the machine. Events include running .exe files, any open/save dialog-boxes, opening file/folder from Explorer or other software, software installation, system shutdown/start, application or system crash, network connection/disconnection and more.

You can easily export this information into csv/tab-delimited/xml/html file or copy it to the clipboard and then paste into Excel or other software.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch LastActivityView.exe.
What's new? Added:
  • Added 'Show Milliseconds In Time' option.
Latest comments
Checker on 2016-05-26 20:38

@Allen: Link tested ... works fine.

__philippe on 2017-01-18 14:32

LastActivityView v1.26

The new "Sleep" activity indicators ("Sleep/Resumed from sleep") display correctly under Win7.

Sadly, the Sleep indicators do not show at all under WinXP...:-(

MIKLO on 2017-04-20 14:14

Very nice and way useful thanks to the maker for your work on this project :).
MIKLO

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DiskCountersView v1.30

Andrew Lee on 5 Oct 2022
  • 71KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

DiskCountersView displays information about the drives on your system based on Window's system counters of each disk drive. Includes the total number of read/write operations and the total number of read/write bytes. Additionally, general drive information is also displayed like disk name, partition number, partition location, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskCountersView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
  • Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of DiskCountersView will be invisible on start.
  • Added 'Bytes Counter Unit' option. You can choose one of the following units: Bytes, kB, KiB, MB, MiB, GB, GiB.

OpalCalc v1.94

lintalist on 2 Oct 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Sep 2021
  • Suggested by twinbee

OpalCalc is new type of calculator using natural language to function like Notepad or a word processor. It lets you build text with numbers adjacent to sums over multiple lines so you can quickly go back and adjust your previous calculations with the answers auto-updating on the fly. OpalCalc is ideal for putting math into everyday thinking such as for quick budgets and shopping lists.

Built-in features include percentages, currency conversion, custom functions/variables, date/time support, color coding, lightweight size, configurable interface, hundreds of measures and functions, and more.

Freeware version limited to 5 lines.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5+
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch OpalCalc.exe.
What's new? See:
https://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/#history
Latest comments
Foot on 2014-04-28 00:35

The download links (at 27 April 2014) lead to the installers. The portable zip is available through a link at the upper right of the website page.

twinbee on 2014-04-28 13:41

@Foot: Thanks, main links on this page fixed!

DarkShadow on 2016-02-17 10:01

v1.80 released !

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Firewall App Blocker V1.9

Midas on 30 Sep 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by klon

Firewall App Blocker simplifies program management settings for the Windows Firewall. The program makes it easy to block or allow program and process access to the network. Supports batch operations for multiple programs or processes, drag-and-drop, inbound rules tab (for servers), and disabling/enabling Internet access.

By default, the program manages listed processes, but can also be set to allow ONLY those processes shown, or "whitelist" mode.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Windows Firewall enabled (doesn’t work with other firewall tools)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download and launch the self-extracting EXE. Launch FAB.exe or FAB_x64.exe for 64-bit machines.
Similar/alternative apps: SimpleWall
What's new? What is new: (Wednesday, 28 September 2022)

[FIXED] – If you change GUI language, Enable WhiteList box disappears
[FIXED] – A minor bug in command prompt
[FIXED] – Entries can’t be sorted that the most recently added ones are at the top
[ADDED] – Partial language support for “File -> Netsh Commands”

FuguHub v8.1

lwc on 30 Sep 2022
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Aug 2020
  • Suggested by David Gagnon

FuguHub (formerly BarracudaDrive) enables various server tools and file sharing via a web browser. A number of plugins are integrated into the product, including a WebDAV Server, Large File Mailer, Website Builder, Bulletin Board, and Application Server.

Note that access to the server from beyond your local network will require a dynamic DNS service. See the website for more information.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FuguHub.exe -console.

Open a web browser and enter "localhost" to begin the setup process.
Similar/alternative apps: HFS
What's new? Not available, formerly in https://fuguhub.com/readme.txt
Latest comments
Grunt on 2008-08-12 14:32

Homepage has moved.

mozkill on 2010-02-10 14:59

you can accomplish the same thing as this software simply by running a Hamachi VPN (the non-managed version) plus the HFS file server (through the VPN tunnel). Its easier than I make it sound.

Vavo on 2010-04-21 17:39

Nothing special. The web interface is ugly. Any HFS will do this. Can not change the port of the server. Only the upload function is a plus

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gPodder Portable v3.11.0

webfork on 18 Feb 2023
  • 43MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by joby_toss

gPodder is an easy-to-use podcatcher, able to subscribe to free audio and video content ("podcasts") to open on your computer or on the go. The program can batch download all recent podcasts (often as many as 30 episodes). Features synchronization with a variety of devices including iPod, MP3 players, and mobile phone support. Works with RSS, Atom, XSPF, Vimeo, YouTube, Apple and Soundcloud feeds.

gPodder is cross platform (Mac/Linux) and gPodder Portable is a portable wrapper for the program. Includes optional integration the with my.gpodder.org Web Service. Alternatively, a non-PortableApps version is also available from the gPodder home page.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gPodderPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Ziepod
What's new? See: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/releases
Latest comments
donald on 2013-09-13 21:44

Last edit today 9/13/13 added the category = Internet - Podcast Managers
Hopefully other entries could be added including those already listed @TPFC like Gpodder.

webfork on 2017-03-01 21:18

Anyone unable to download soundcloud should know that this is is a known issue: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues/235

bitcoin on 2018-01-25 20:04

up to v3.9.6 now

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LoadedDllsView v1.06

Andrew Lee on 25 Sep 2022
  • 121KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by billon

LoadedDllsView scans all running processes on your system and displays the list of all DLL files loaded by these processes. The program also shows the number of processes that load each DLL in the list. When selecting a file in the upper pane, the lower pane displays the list of all processes that use the selected file. You can also select one or more DLL files and then export the list into comma-delimited/tab-delimited/html/xml file.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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. Launch LoadedDllsView.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed a bug that caused a token handles leak.

NetworkCountersWatch v1.05

Andrew Lee on 21 Sep 2022
  • 107KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by billon

NetworkCountersWatch displays system counters for every network interface on your system, which includes the numbers of incoming/outgoing bytes, incoming/outgoing and broadcast packets and more. You can also initialize all counters to zero at any time in order to watch the network counters for specific event. It also calculates and displays the current download and upload speed on your network interface.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NetworkCountersWatch.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of NetworkCountersWatch will be invisible on start.
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.

MyPhoneExplorer v2.0

Ennovy on 20 Sep 2022
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by perwhis

MyPhoneExplorer is a program that allows you to administer Sony-Ericsson mobile phones and any Android-based phones. You may connect your phone via cable, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or infrared port. It can handle the adressbook, organizer, SMSs, files and even calls.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: Donationware
How to extract: Download the installer and go through the setup process choosing the portable mode. Launch MyPhoneExplorer portable.exe.
What's new? See: https://www.fjsoft.at/en/Versions/
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2022-09-19 20:40

Now at version 2.0

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SimpleProgramDebugger v1.16

Andrew Lee on 19 Sep 2022
  • 112KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

SimpleProgramDebugger is a simple debugging tool that attaches to existing, active program or starts a new program in debugging mode and then displays all major debugging events occurs while the program is running. This includes Exception, Create Thread, Create Process, Exit Thread, Exit Process, Load DLL, Unload Dll, and Debug String.

After the debugging events are accumulated, you can easily export them into comma-delimited/tab-delimited/xml/html file or copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into Excel or any other spreadsheet application.

Category:
Runs on:Win98
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. Launch SimpleProgramDebugger.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).
  • Fixed a few high DPI mode issues.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a small token handles leak (In the 'Select Process' window).

Avidemux v2.8.1 Updated

Llewelyn on 17 Apr 2024
  • 62MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Netgirl

Avidemux is a video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Cross-platform (Linux, BSD, OS X).

Alternatively, X-Avidemux and Avidemux Portable are also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Qt keys saved to registry
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the Portable Windows 64-bit zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Rename avidemux.exe to avidemux_portable.exe and launch.
Similar/alternative apps: MKVToolnix
What's new? See:
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/news.html
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-04-29 16:52

I gotta agree with @smaragdus its up to the anti-virus developer to correct their mistake naming something as malware or anything bad when in fact it is not! I have used this software for quite some time and really like and its easy to use & works great.
MIKLO

gbrao on 2017-07-16 12:17

There is a v2.6.21, only for x64.
"same as 2.6.20 with x265 encoder fixed on win64"

https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/avidemux/2.6.21/

turionaltec on 2019-04-16 06:31

Love this software to do quick edits (just cutting out a clip from a longer video), or to convert file types (avi->mp4). If the codec remains the same it will be done in seconds!

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BabelMap Portable v15.0.0.1

Andrew Lee on 14 Sep 2022
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

BabelMap is a character map application that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire of over 110,000 characters, or search for a particular character by name or by code point. Characters can then be copied to the clipboard for use in any Unicode-aware application.

BabelMap Portable is a version of the software packaged in PortableApps.com format.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BabelMapPortable.exe.
What's new? See: https://babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap_Versions.html
Latest comments
tomcat on 2022-04-09 07:30

If you go to
WORD > Insert > Symbol...
you'll see the available Unicode characters with their codes and can insert them in a document.

juverax on 2022-04-10 13:19

I don't really like and trust "Online Installers".
I would prefer a regular portable app that you "unpack and run".

JohnTHaller on 2022-04-12 13:22

PortableApps.com uses online installers when necessary by license.

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Crypto Notepad v1.7.3

Andrew Lee on 10 Sep 2022
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

Crypto Notepad is a simple, notepad-like text editor that encrypts saved files. Other features include font and color customization, word wrap, shortcut keys, and auto-lock on minimize. You can press the lock icon to hide information without closing the application (will switch to a password prompt).

Utilizes the AES encryption algorithm with available 128, 192, and 256 key sizes.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1+
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Crypto Notepad.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: fSekrit, Steganos LockNote
What's new? See: https://github.com/Crypto-Notepad/Crypto-Notepad/wiki/Release-Notes
Latest comments
Hawk on 2017-02-13 14:20

Don't have tabs?

webfork on 2017-02-13 22:52

@Hawk: no but feel free to request that feature on the github site. Author is fairly responsive.

vmars316 on 2018-12-20 14:40

Couldn't open zip file , had to use 7z .

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CheckDisk v1.7

Andrew Lee on 9 Sep 2022
  • 540KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by AlephX

CheckDisk searches for and repairs disk errors via either a basic or thorough surface test. The program is similar to ScanDisk and chkdsk tools supplied with Windows. It can find bad sectors on your disk and mark them as such, working on both hard disks (including SCSI and RAID) and removable media. It can also check CDs for errors as well.

Note: Manual is in German.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch checkDisk.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new?
  • Checkdisk 1.7: Minor fixed
Latest comments
wagner reatto on 2019-08-15 18:55

I have system (Windows) on an SSD (C:), a Disk 1 Tb (Seagate) (D:), here it is the pagefile.sys. This application presents problems on both disks when it is to read and fix. On an external Seagate 1 Tb everything goes well.

AndTheWolf on 2022-09-09 13:28

Now at version 1.7

tomcat on 2022-09-10 03:12

The developer states “It is quite similar to the ScanDisk tool or chkdsk.exe, supplied with the Windows operating systems”.
The obvious question then arises, why choose it over those? There doesn’t seem to be an answer to this.

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PhotoDemon v9.0

Special on 8 Sep 2022
  • 30MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

PhotoDemon is a fast, feature-rich photo editor with rotate, resize, crop, etc. and a variety of color, contrast, filters and other graphics tools. The program also allows adding text, a metadata viewer/editor, on-canvas paint tool, layers, screenshot too, and works with common graphics formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, JP2, JXR, PPM, TGA and WEBP.

The program also supports macro edition and batch processing.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: BSD license
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PhotoDemon.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: LazPaint, paint.net
What's new? See:
https://photodemon.org/news/
Latest comments
PhotoDemon on 2020-09-11 16:28

Hi Zorro. PhotoDemon developer here. PD shouldn't have any new dependencies between v7 and v8. (In fact, its system dependencies haven't really changed since the Windows XP era!)

If the app was working for you in the past but it doesn't now, please get in touch so I can investigate. Contact info here: https://photodemon.org/about/contact/

No .NET libraries are required by PD or any of the 3rd-party libraries it uses, but like all Windows apps, it does require *some* system libraries to be present. This includes the VB runtimes built into Windows 8.1 and 10 (full list here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-basic-6/visual-basic-6-support-policy#runtime-definition). If a determined user manually removes those libraries, PD is unlikely to run. I'm afraid I don't have a way to prevent this. :(

Thank you in advance for any follow-up information you can provide. I no longer have a Windows 8.1 system available for testing, but if I've somehow broken PD on it, I'd love to fix it as quickly as I can.

zorro on 2020-09-20 14:01

Hi PhotoDemon ;-) - just wanted to send you a screenshot of the message appearing when I try to start the program... but PhotoDemon updated itsself and now the problem is gone. Means version 8.2 is working like a charm (and like old version 7.0) on my machine. Thanks for so much backwards-compatibility!

PhotoDemon on 2020-09-21 15:49

Thank you so much for the follow-up, Zorro! My favorite bugs are the ones that fix themselves. :D

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Stick A Note v3.1.1

Andrew Lee on 6 Sep 2022
  • 357KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Apr 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Stick A Note is an unique note-taking program in that it connects to an individual application window. Notes move with the window and disappear when window is not in focused or when the program hotkey is toggled (Win+N by default). Includes available color and hotkey customization, and all notes are saved to the application folder as text files.

Useful for keeping notes on individual applications such as usability or beta testing, or for keeping notes on infrequent/difficult programs to serve as reminders for use.

Note: Some software changes the window title with program behavior, which will make Stick A Note think it's working with a separate program (for example, this happens whenever you type anything into the search box of "Everything"). Stick A Note's associated note will no longer be visible (though still saved to disk) until the window returns to it's previous state.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stick A Note.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Stickypaper
What's new? See https://sites.google.com/site/stickanote/changes
Latest comments
RainrooM on 2018-12-16 06:02

interesting to add notes to a 'folder' or even on 'specific emails' ...

hamasaki on 2022-09-06 20:29

Download link is a 404.

Andrew Lee on 2022-09-06 21:42

@hamasaki: Fixed download link

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Volumouse v2.10

Andrew Lee on 6 Sep 2022
  • 98KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Local

Volumouse allows you to control a several system settings with the scroll wheel of your mouse including volume, screen brightness, window transparency, and more. These can be attached to certain events such as when a specific application is in focus or when the mouse is in a certain position (over the taskbar, on the side of the screen, etc.)

The program also allows you to restrict the wheel action to a set of rules for determining when it can changesettings. You can for example use your right mouse wheel, alt/ctrl key, etc. Volume settings for microphone, speakers, and default recording can be attached to any different combination of these.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies:
  • Wheel mouse & Sound card
  • Administrator rights (Vista/Win7)
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch volumouse.exe.
What's new?
  • Volumouse now uses completely different method to hook the mouse wheel events. This change has multiple advantages:
  • It fixes the problem with the taskbar of Windows 11.
  • It fixes the problem with the trackbar indicator on Windows 10.
  • There is no need for the hook DLL anymore (vlmshlp.dll)
  • volumouse is just a single .exe file that works with both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
  • Mouse over the title bar - Updated to work properly with non-standard title bars (Like in Chrome, Firefox, and Explorer windows of Windows 10/11)
Latest comments
webfork on 2013-02-16 02:58

So lucky to have this. My Lenovo machine has poor volume control buttons that frequently ignore input depending on what application is in focus. Volumouse meanwhile doesn't care: I have the left button + scroll wheel mapped to slowing increasing/decreasing the sound and the right button + scroll wheel mapped to mute and un-mute. Just excellent.

Especially like that it only takes up a little over a meg of RAM.

bankr on 2013-07-17 06:49

Volumouse is my default program for about two yaers already.
Thanks to the author.

bankr on 2013-10-04 18:05

Despite being very handy Volumouse lacks very important feature for me - preset volume levels. I need 11 of them - 1 (100%), 1/2 (50%), 1/2^2 (25%), ..., 1/2^9 (0.195%) and 0. Now I found Volume2. Don't sure whether it can be completely registry-stealth or not (uses HKCU/Run for autorun), at least it saves Config.ini to its folder.
Goodbye Volumouse.
P.S. Still using NirCmd "nircmdc setsysvolume xxxxx" by lnk-files in start-programs menu for setting volume w/o mouse.

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qTox v1.17.6

webfork on 21 Aug 2022
  • 45MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Mar 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

qTox is an easy, secure instant messaging and VoIP client for the distributed Tox network. The program includes standard features like chat between users, group chats, file transfer with image preview, as well as high-quality audio and video calls with group call capability.

The program is peer-to-peer, meaning no central server is necessary for the network to function.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac, Windows, FreeBSD and Android. Alternatively, qTox Portable is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Windows 8 and 10: Empty folder written to \AppData\Roaming\tox
Windows 7: Duplicate user files saved to \AppData\Roaming\tox
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer (ending in x86_64.exe) and extract
  2. Copy the contents of setup-qtox-XXX-release.exe\_•€\bin to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch qtox.exe
  4. Create a username and optional password
  5. Click settings (gear icon), choose the Advanced tab, and select "Make Tox portable"
Optionally, close the program and delete the folder C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\tox\ (this makes the program more stealth)
Similar/alternative apps: Isotoxin, Ricochet, TorChat
What's new? See:
https://github.com/qTox/qTox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2017-04-27 01:44

Portability may be lost after update- re-enable it from "Settings" - "Advanced" - "Make Tox portable".

webfork on 2018-01-15 19:20

@billon: Thanks, posted something in forums about it.

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µTorrent v3.5.5.46348 Adware

lwc on 18 Aug 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by Vurlix

µTorrent (or uTorrent) is a lightweight BitTorrent client that supports multiple simultaneous downloads, file level priorities, configurable bandwidth scheduler and speed limiters, even the ability to only run while user activity is detected. Also includes boss key, built-in search function and RSS capability for subscribed downloads.

Note that this software was changed to adware after being added to the Portable Freeware database.

Alternatively, µTorrent Portable is also available, which automatically adjusts paths.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Adware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer, extract Carrier.exe with 7-Zip to a folder of your choice and rename it to uTorrent.exe
  2. Create an empty text file called settings.dat in the same folder
  3. Launch uTorrent.exe
Similar/alternative apps: qBittorrent, Halite
What's new? See:
http://www.should.keepfree.de/utorrent_alltime_changelogs.txt
Latest comments
ashghost on 2017-12-24 23:19

@robzuc: see 'What is "portable"' on the "about" page: https://www.portablefreeware.com/about.php Not leaving stuff behind is not "stealth" in the parlance here, and uTorrent works fine when moving from machine to machine and saves your settings.

Peter202 on 2019-05-17 14:49

After i extracted uTorrent.exe 3.5.5 with 7-zip in the extracted folder there are couple of .dll files. Are they needed? Can i delete them?

billon on 2019-05-17 20:35

@Peter202:

No, only file you need is Carrier.exe renamed to uTorrent.exe
And created settings.dat

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eMule v0.60d

lwc on 18 Aug 2022

eMule is a client for the eDonkey P2P network. It uses several networks (ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad) to create one reliable network, and features auto priorities and source management so that you can start many downloads without having to monitor them.

NOTE: This program has not been updated in many years and may be subject to security vulnerabilities.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. It writes some file association entries to the registry.
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch emule.exe.
What's new? https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/
Latest comments
No ED2K on 2008-02-12 17:52

I am back for more important informations.

---

I have told you that the original emule client has over 55 special modifications - some have over 100 new features. But there are exists also bad programmers who know a filesharer cant go to the police. Here are my warnings and support for you.:

-- Dangerous Emule Mods ---

1.) Ketamine and eMCrypt - after a while you must pay money for the client.

2.) eMule v0.30e 1.x,FutureMule, PowerMule and eMule 0.47a Pro Gold Version - cost money with backdoors and spyware.

--- Secure excellent Emule Mods ---

X-Ray, StulleMulle. Sivka and MorphXT.

On this site you could study all the new features for this 4 emule Mods with a higher speed and security level.:

http://wiki.emule-web.de/index.php/Category:Features

Another great one is MorphXT.:

http://emulemorph.sourceforge.net/

Any of them are works perfect with a pendrive / USB stick. Btw. i do not recommned to use emule clients from USA - please use only the famous Mods from brasilia, germany, french and china / taiwan.

Ubelievable! Today i saw over 3 million user with 937,820,160 files. Plain folly! It look likes P2P is with no law, no public exposure or any other aggressions stoppable. 30 % of all data traffic in this world is P2P - at saturday night 70% in germany.

thanks - good luck

PS.: Interesting is also the eMule v0.48a ROCKFORCE Mod v1.3 with Encryption (AES 256 bit) for File-Transfers.

No ED2K on 2008-03-04 19:49

Dear P2P kids,

hi i am back. This is a police secret. Listen! Any emule creates a unique hash identity. This hash is always the same no matter what kind of emule modification you use because its made by your networkcard with his unique MAC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

Dear P2P kids,

the police know it if you are online. Always. You must change at any time your hardware MAC address at your networkcard / adapter. This is possible with software or look at your networkcard features.

summarization

- use ipfilter.dat

- use obfuscation connection

- use emule- / kadmods

- activate only the kad network

- never ever use a ed2k server

- i2p works but makes it very slow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

- change your ethernet networkcard MAC per software or over networkcard driver in hardware manager

- never ever use british / us-american emule clients

- dont share to much / the police dont hunt ppl with only 3 illegal mp3 or 2 movies because the jurisdictional amount is not high enough

kids! good luck!

btw.: the elite and high professionel filesharer works actually only with filehoster's (russia, easteurope, china, southamerica, sweden) and enciphered packers.

http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
http://freearc.org/

a police professional.: "actually the ppl which use international filehoster with encrypted zipfiles are not under our control but we could catch any P2P user ..."

pierat on 2009-03-06 08:50

you can always download safely if you're in a country that has no piracy laws.but it takes the fun out of it knowing that what you're doing is legal

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Deluge v2.1.1

lwc on 18 Aug 2022
  • 52MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by WIkiQUsK

Deluge is a lightweight BitTorrent client designed to be unobtrusive, leaving much of its functionality to available plugins (such as RSS and scheduler). The program includes encryption, DHT, Local Peer Discovery, µTorrent Peer Exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP, proxy support, web seed, private torrents, speed limits, bandwidth scheduler, and more. The interface can be password-protected.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux, OS X and Unix. The program allows multiple user-interfaces including GTK+, Web, and console, with available password protection. Utilizes a libtorrent back-end.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Temporary files are saved to %APPDATA%. For more details, read here and here.
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. If present, move the files and folders inside $_OUTDIR to the main folder (where deluge.exe is located)
  3. Launch deluge.exe -c data

Optionally, delete the $PLUGINSDIR folder.
Similar/alternative apps: qBitTorrent
What's new? See:
https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

RetroShare v0.6.6

lwc on 18 Aug 2022
  • 49MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Mar 2021
  • Suggested by lautrepay

RetroShare is a feature-rich communications platform for small groups of users with a focus on privacy. The program includes an exclusive and secure toolset for instant messaging, chat rooms, forums, direct messages (e-mail), file server, VoIP, channels for distributing content and link exchange. It functions as an open, distributed alternative to many commercial groupware programs.

Additional features include RSS feed reader, status messages (away/busy), different modes for low traffic, transfer and disk space limits, plugins, skins and much more. Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, BSD).

Great for small businesses, groups, and a safer alternative to most file sharing methods. Networks can be small or large, but communications between users are limited by default to friends and friends-of-friends, with more specific controls available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the "Portable" 7z package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch RetroShare.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: qTox, Brosix
What's new? See:
https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2021/03/15/release-notes-for-v0-6-6/
Latest comments
ozziguy on 2017-03-14 10:16

v0.6.2 QT5 does not run on xp because QT5 does not support xp anymore

XP users must use the accompanying v0.6.2 QT4 version

ozziguy on 2017-03-14 10:17

Forgot to mention the portable version is now chosen from the installer

webfork on 2017-03-17 23:00

@ozziguy: Looks like they're still offering the portable 7zip version, and it's 20% smaller. I'll go ahead and list both. Thanks for the note.

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IObit Unlocker Portable v1.3

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by lwc

IObit Unlocker fixes the permissions on locked files and folders, and also allowing delete, rename, move or copy. It includes an optional Forced mode, which attempts to terminate all related processes that may be affecting the lock status.

IObit Unlocker Portable is a modified version by PortableApps.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Windows registry, %ALLUSERSAPPDATA%
Stealth: ? No
Path portability: Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package.
  2. Extract to a folder of your choice.
  3. Launch IObitUnlockerPortable.exe.

Since the original program is not portable, PortableApps stays in the background while the original program runs its course, then deletes its leftovers.

FirmwareTablesView v1.02

Andrew Lee on 8 Aug 2022
  • 98KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

FirmwareTablesView displays a list of firmware tables (ACPI, SMBIOS) stored on your system. You can view the content of these tables in Hex-dump format and export them to a binary file.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FirmwareTablesView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.

Boom v1.0.38

Andrew Lee on 4 Aug 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by lautrepay

Boom is a lightweight and simple audio player featuring gapless playback, ReplayGain support, a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view of the indexed files etc. The program supports most major formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A (requires Microsoft codecs included with Windows 7) and WMA.

Developed by the author of foobar2000, the program includes a simplified version of it's Properties dialog that provides basic tagging capabilities.

Note: When running in portable mode, Boom will index the contents of the folder it's installed in.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download Boom.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. Create two empty text files in the application folder and then give them the following names:
    • Boom.exe.localconfig.opt
    • Boom.exe.locallibrary.opt
  3. Launch Boom.exe
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1, OooPlayer
What's new?
  • Fixed failure to index music on some readonly network shares.
  • Updated MP4 handler (now recognizes Opus and FLAC content in MP4).
Latest comments
TP109 on 2017-01-28 02:48

I agree with User2100. This is a very fast launching player with a very small footprint, but the lack of a time slider is a big issue.

AndTheWolf on 2022-06-06 12:40

Now at version 1.0.37

freakazoid on 2022-06-07 00:09

Thanks AndTheWolf. Updated!

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Spamihilator v1.7

Andrew Lee on 2 Aug 2022
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by carbonize

Spamihilator works between your email client and the Internet to examine incoming messages for problems, filtering out useless and unsolicited spam mails (junk). This process runs completely in the background, using a number of different filters in order to achieve the highest spam recognition rate possible. The program is highly configurable and can be extended via plugins.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch spamihilator.exe.
What's new?
  • Improved compatibility with mail accounts from Web.de and GMX
  • Support for newer encryption algorithms
  • Updated certificate for encrypted connections between your mail client and Spamihilator
Latest comments
Loner on 2013-01-01 06:27

Screenshot is very small...can't see anything.

webfork on 2013-01-05 19:13

Screenshot looks fine to me

Philiweb on 2022-08-02 05:58

Spamihilator 1.7 has been released! :-) (https://www.spamihilator.com/en/blog/spamihilator-1.7-has-been-released/)

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fHash v2.4.0

webfork on 30 Jul 2022
  • 451KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

fHash is a simple, drag-and-drop tool that helps determine if a file has been changed, modified, or corrupted via a hash string. The program can evaluate multiple files and supports MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and CRC32 hashes. Includes a verification capability that searches evaluated files for a given hash.

Cross platform with a client available for Mac.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package according to your OS' bitness and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete fHashShlExt.dll or fHashShlExt64.dll
  3. Launch fHash.exe or fHash64.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Hash
What's new? https://github.com/sunjw/fhash/releases
  • Windows UWP fix progress bar high DPI display issue
  • Windows UWP fix Windows version detection issue
  • Fix other issues
  • Windows MFC release 2.4.0
Latest comments
Midas on 2021-02-10 09:48

As of v2.2.0, fHash has gone 64-bit only. The last 32-bit version is still available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fhash/files/2.1.9/.

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Stella v6.7

lwc on 27 Jul 2022
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by Magibon

Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator, allowing you to play Atari 2600 games.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stella.exe from inside the 32-bit or the 64-bit folder with the argument:
Stella.exe -baseinappdir
OR
Stella.exe -basedir configfolder (replace configfolder with a name of your choice).
What's new? See:
https://stella-emu.github.io/changelog.html

CSV Buddy v3.0

lwc on 22 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by JnLlnd

CSV Buddy adds additional functionality to the widely-supported basic spreadsheets known as Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files. The program allows the edition of a variety of formats, import/export, reorder, merge and more. Tasks can be automated with scripting commands.

Works with comma-delimited, tab-delimited and other CSV-type files. A 64-bit version is included. Written using AutoHotKey.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes. Unicode support in 64-bit version.
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CSVBuddy-x_x-32-bit.exe or CSVBuddy-x_x-64-bit.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CSVFileView
What's new?
  • User interface improved with configurable fonts, screen scaling support
  • Automate tasks with scripting commands
  • Merge existing fields in new fields at load time or with the user interface

Opera v89 Adware

Ennovy on 19 Jul 2022
  • 137MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by Specular

Opera is a fast and secure web browser with tabbed, customizable interface. Features integrated searches, themes, device sync, mouse gestures, and built-in ad blocking. Also available is a service that includes a bookmarks and password sync along with an "off-road" mode that uses server-side compression to speed up browsing especially for low speed internet connections (account signup required). A variety of add-ons are available to extend functionality.

Based on Google Chrome, the program is available for Mac, Linux, Android and a variety of mobile phones and tablets. Opera v12 (Presto) is also available and includes many features not present in the newer version.

Alternative Portable versions:

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\Opera Software, HKCU\Software\MozillaPlugins, HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Adware (was initially freeware when added to the database)
How to extract:
  1. Download and launch Setup.exe
  2. Select Options and choose Stand-alone installation (USB)
  3. Set Install path to a folder of your choice and click Accept & Install
  4. Launch launcher.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Vivaldi, Google Chrome Portable
What's new? See:https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2022/07/opera-89-stable/
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2019-03-07 10:40

Like Opera, just wish it did not updates every week. Another today, never know what is updated, security, or unimportant.

PAFuser on 2019-04-09 11:04

Upgraded to 60, only 1 extension icon is visible. Does anyone know how to get them back? They can not be used when invisible.

PAFuser on 2019-04-10 17:44

Simple solution, download new installer, install to new location, add all extensions to Opera, change settings, import bookmarks. Easy upgrade, HA!

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GifCam v7.0

Andrew Lee on 6 Jul 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

GifCam is a handy and reliable application designed to record the screen and to convert the recordings into GIF format. It supports to define the recording frame rate, to select the color quality, to add a text in frames, capture the cursor and much more.

Great for demonstrations, how-tos and bug testing.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder (if "Save Settings On GifCam Path" checked in "Customization")
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GifCam.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: ScreenToGif, LICEcap
What's new? See: http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam-7-0/
Latest comments
__philippe on 2018-01-13 11:23

GifCam v5.5 ßeta 5-JAN-2018 is out (new version since v5.1 OCT2015)
http://blog.bahraniapps.com/

As first mentioned by hamasaki
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=88941#p88941

GifCam v.55 changelog:
- Automatically detects and set transparent/greenscreen color
- Option for saving “setting.ini” in the same gifcam directory
- GifCam 5.5 can access/use 4GB address space on 64 bit computers
- Accurate pixel perfect recording area calculations
- Fixed “recording outside area” & “black border” for some high-res displays
- Supports dropping gif file on the main GifCam window to open it.

portablefree on 2022-07-06 17:03

Updated to version 7.0 (2022-06-02, 2022, June, 2nd)
Changelog:
- Quantize Windows Color Reduction: Reduce to an optimal 256 color Windows palette. It’s slow encoding, but in some cases it gives better color-matching than quantize.
- Option for global CTRL+R shortcut key for rec/stop.
- Option for saving last position: If this option is not checked, the gifcam app will open in the center of the desktop.
- Auto-space between frames and delay labels regardless of system font size.
- Fixed Windows XP right click menu.
- Some other bug fixes.

__philippe on 2022-07-07 10:04

Belatedly discovered a Gifcam quirk in the Win XP version...:-(
(XP buttons regrettably lack the side arrow ▼ included in Win7 version):

• Right-clicking "Rec" button opens a keyboard shortcuts list
• Right-clicking "Save" button opens an options + "about" list

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LICEcap v1.32

Andrew Lee on 5 Jul 2022
  • 444KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to animated GIF files. Features include: move the screen capture frame while recording, pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages, global hotkey (Shift+Space) to toggle pausing while recording, adjustable maximum recording framerate, basic title frame, with or without text, record mouse button presses, display elapsed time in the recording.

You can run multiple LICEcap window simultaneously, even of another LICEcap.

Cross-platform with a version available for Mac OS.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract licecap.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. In this folder, create an empty text file and rename it to licecap.ini
  3. Launch licecap.exe
Similar/alternative apps: GifCam
What's new?
  • Windows: Prevent positioning window offscreen [issue 72]
  • Windows: sign installer/executable
Latest comments
Checker on 2015-08-27 19:22

@smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

Cornflower on 2018-01-18 11:41

This is excellent! I'm already creating demos with it.
Of the 2017 utilities, I use this one and Calculor the most.

Ennovy on 2022-07-05 11:04

The website announces the release of version 1.32 for Windows: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap132-install.exe

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