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Drag'n'Crypt ULTRA is a small file encryption tool that uses a handy "drop box" interface to make encryption and decryption fast and easy. Uses the Twofish encryption algorithm

Note:

• File size is limited. Maximum file size depends on 1/2 free memory (for example: with a RAM of 512 MB RAM you can encrypt a 256 MB file). The author recommends TrueCrypt for larger files.
• The website is in German, but the program is in English.
• Starting from version 2.2.0, Drag'n'Crypt ULTRA is no longer backwards-compatible with data encrypted using Blowfish or TEA.

Tell When Done watches a process running in another Window and notifies you when that process is complete. Since many tools are written without an alarm to signal completion, this program frees you to focus on other work.

Bgcall is a wallpaper changer. Includes multiple monitor support (individual wallpaper setting), calendar display (merge into wallpaper), manual wallpaper setting, and more.

Note: Although this program supports Windows 7, it does not function in the "Starter Edition".

MiniBin provides a recycle bin for the system tray area that can be customized with user-defined themes. Microbin is a lightweight fork of this program.

ShowMyPC is an easy-to-use and secure remote access program. The source and destination computers use the same software to and operation of a remote computer requires only a password (no IP address needed). This temporary password is automatically generated when you start the viewing session and then communicated to the remote user by email, phone or other means.

The program combines VNC with an open-source SSH forwarding client. If you have access to your own SSH server, you can use it instead of the one provided.

Note: This program started including advertisements during runtime after it was added to the database.

FastResolver is a small utility that resolves multiple host names into IP addresses and vice versa. You can simply type the list of IP addresses or host name that you want to resolve, or alternatively, you can specify IP addresses range that you want to scan.

For local network, FastResolver also allows you to get the MAC address of all IP addresses that you scan. FastResolver is a multithreaded application, so it can resolve dozens of addresses within a few seconds.

VaultPad is a simple text and file encryptor. The program can take text, attachments, or both to create an easy-to-share XML file for storage or sharing.

The program uses AES cipher (symmetric-key pairs) to encrypt local messages and RSA/AES cipher (public/private key pairs) for shared messages. A SHA-512 cipher is used to hash passwords, so they aren't stored in the application itself. A MD5 algorithm is used to check embedded files for corruption. VaultPad will handle third party public keys to be able to encrypt/decrypt their files directly.

SpReader is an image viewer for displaying page spread for example from a comic or magazine that has two files for each pane of a full spread or a picture cut into two parts for size. The images within ZIP can be displayed directly.

Comic Book Archive Creator is an application for quickly creating Comic Book Archive files for use in such readers as Comic Rack or CDisplay.

Input formats include pdf, jpg, png, gif, tif, bmp, and the program can create cbz, cb7, cbt, and cbr.

Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software. It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages including Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Portuguese, and more.

The application includes the Concise English Dictionary and additional dictionaries are available for download.

xVideoServiceThief (xVST) is a tool for downloading video from various video websites including YouTube, Metacafe, Bebo, and many more. The program includes scheduling, optional session saving, and proxy capabilities. The program will also convert video to various audio/video formats and quality settings including AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, and MP3.

Ability to download from mature sites can be disabled and password-protected.

X-xVideoServiceThief is a portable wrapper for xVideoServiceThief.

Languages: 19 including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Japanese.

Clam Sentinel is a real-time malware scanner using ClamWin Antivirus as its engine. The program also has its own system monitor that scans for unknown malware that does not yet have a ClamWin signature. It also detects new drives and monitors these units until the program is closed or until the device is disconnected.

NOTE: There have been no updates to this program since late 2014. You might want to consider using the general purpose Directory Monitor instead (see Execute scripts/applications when events occur, which also provides Clam Sentinel's missing feature of only launching ClamWin within specific folders).

Inbox is a software that fetches basic email information, collates, and then filters your messages. With it, you can aggressively deal with unwanted mail saving you time and bandwidth whenever you decide to download the full messages with a standard email client. Mail can be downloaded or left on the server. It's also a powerful tool for manipulating email in various ways such as redirects, simple mailing lists, mailbots, away/reject messages, global, and account level filtering.

Site offline, linking to archive.org.

TimeComX is a small and resource-friendly automation program, that can execute various actions after specified time or by a lower deviation of network and processor usage activity. User can Restart, Shutdown, Log Off, Lock, Hibernate, Suspend and Wake, Play any type of audio-file (mp3, ogg, wma, wav...), as well as file execution (e.g. batch files).

Optionally, you can let TimeComX make a screenshot before the action starts.

NOTE: Site offline, linking to Softpedia and archive.org.

SendTo MD5 is a small utility to calculate and compare MD5 checksums of files or strings. You can easily check the integrity of files, compare different MD5 hashes or simply check if two files are identical. Additionally, you can search files with specific MD5 hash and benchmark the time it takes to calculate MD5 hash from specific file.

PromptHere is a small utility that sits in the system tray and allows you to open a command prompt directly in the folder you're browsing, using a custom shortcut mouse/key combination. You can also specify if you want the selected file's name pasted or not in the command prompt window by editing the .ini file. Works with a variety of file managers.

Written in AutoHotkey.

Siren is a file renamer which allows for batch file renaming based on expressions (kind of an extended Regular Expression syntax). Also allows for insertion of file information (file Date, ID3 tags). Includes undo/redo functions, recursive edits (directory and sub-directories),

Functional in Linux (GTK2 required).

Keyndicate visually displays the current state of CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock keys in the tray menu. Great for laptops or keyboards that don't have these lighted indicators. When a bar is compressed means the key is not active and when expanded signifies the key is active. From top to bottom, the order in which the bars are represented: CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock.

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

NOTE: website offline; linking to softpedia.

Daedalus is a program that allows one to create, solve, analyze, view, walk through, and most of all have fun with Mazes.

Periodic Table Explorer contains all the elements of the Periodic Table along with images of the elements in their natural state, as well as lots of other information and interactive displays.

Desktop Christmas Tree is an animated Christmas tree with selectable lights, snow, and music.

Purrint is a screen capture tool (desktop or current window), that reduces the many steps involved in saving images from the PrintScreen button. Options include save to file, print to printer, or copy to clipboard.

Phrozen Skype REC (short for RECorder) is an easy-to-use program to automatically record voice conversations on Skype, storing them in either wav or mp3 format.

Note: Version 1 still available here.

RecursiView is an image viewer that will allow you to load a folder and all its subfolders at one time. This can be handy when you have your images organized into folders but you don't want to have to click through each folder to view them.

Dropper allows you to get the exact color of any pixel on the screen and converts it to commonly used representations.

ArcThemALL! is a multi-compressor of files and folders for both normal and advanced users. It supports compression with UPX, ZIP and 7Z formats, includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, supports self-extracting archive creation, archives encryption/decryption, three external freeware compressors, the extraction of a long list of formats (7Z, APM, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, FAT, GZIP, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SFX, TAR, UDF, UPX, VHD, WIM, XAR, XZ, Z, ZIP) and much more.

MicroBin is the most minimal (10 KB) free recycle bin for your Microsoft Windows system tray area. MicroBin is a fork of MiniBin, but without all the extras.

EverEdit is a fast, lightweight, skinnable and extendable editor. While it can serve as a Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers including snippet support, markdown support with instant preview, syntax highlighting for many languages, full Emmet Support aka Zen Coding, multiple selection (smart rename), and more.

The program includes a hex editor and easily edits large files (1 Gig+).

Note: v2.9.0.2074 is (presently) the last freeware version, which is no longer hosted by the authors. We are linking to majorgeeks for the 32-bit version and archive.org for the 64-bit version (thanks DzejPy and lintalist).

40tude Dialog was (its homepage is available only via Internet Archive) a multi-server, multi-threaded email/newsreader with Unicode character support. It supports multiple servers (POP3/NNTP) and identities, has filtering/scoring support, integrated email functionality and binary support (including support for multiparts).

Functional on 64-bit systems.

binaryclokk displays the local time/date in a binary format. Options include always-on-top, transparency, color, and fade-out.

Tiny Hexer Small Edition is a minimal hex editor for binary files with an intuitive interface. The program features multiple file edition, the ability to edit sectors of the disk or other media including flash memory on drivers drive or digital camera. The program can change the virtual memory of other processes and open files up to 2 GB.

The "Small Edition" was originally developed for BartPE as a version that requires fewer system libraries and can operate on minimal dependencies.

PureRa removes files from your computer that other mainstream cleaning programs tend to overlook. Some of the targets can simply be removed to create some valuable space while others are removed in an attempt to repair certain problems because they will simply recreate themselves. Targets that are currently removed by PureRa are: Config.msi, Thumbs.db, Iconcache.db, .sqm-files, Desktop.ini etc.

WizMouse is a lightweight program that lets your mouse wheel scroll the window under the pointer, even if the window doesn't have input focus. Normal behavior requires clicking on a window to activate it before you can scroll it with your mouse wheel.

The program can optionally enable the mouse wheel in applications that don't support it by converting mouse wheel messages to scroll bar messages.

Other options include "reverse mouse scrolling" (like "natural scrolling" on Mac OS X Lion), and bringing the scrolling window to the foreground.

Splitter Light helps you split files or whole directories (including subdirectories) into parts. It optionally creates a file with the timestamps of the original files to be restored as well as simple batch file for rejoining the files so you don't have to have access to the program to rejoin later.

Supports drag-and-drop, command-line, and very large files (limited only by OS).

emailSTRIPPER removes the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails. It will restore "forwarded" or "replied" emails back to their original state so they're easier to read.

Xleaner is a comprehensive privacy tool and a clean-up utility that allows you to delete temp and junk files with ease. Xleaner can clear browser history, cookies, cache, search, auto-complete etc. It can also remove temp folders, recent documents, as well as run, search, open/save history and much more.

Xleaner is extendible with Plug-ins, AddOns as well as Themes / Color schemes.

NOTE: The development of program is discontinued.

MoveME provides some simple but helpful desktop tweaks allowing easy window or dialog resize, move, and center actions on your screen with simple key shortcuts. Additionally, you can hide/show the Windows taskbar with a simple key combination.

QtWeb is a web browser focused on strong privacy and a clean environment. While running, no traces are left on the host machine while browsing and none are left behind after a browser "reset" in the privacy menu. All toolbars, including navigation bar, can be turned off or docked anywhere, and even moved outside the main browsing window. Includes built-in support for Torrent downloads and ad-blocking functionality can be easily enabled.

Based on Qt framework and Apple's WebKit rendering engine (also used by Apple Safari).

Security note: development of this browser appears to have stalled and the software may be subject to security vulnerabilities.

EventLogSourcesView displays the list of all event log sources installed on your system. For every event log source, the following information is displayed: Event Source Name, Event Type, DLL/EXE Files containing the event message strings, Registry Modified Time, and version information taken from the DLL/EXE file (Product Name, Company, File Description, File Version).

You can select one or more items, and then export them to html/xml/csv/tab-delimited file by using the 'Save Selected Items' option (Ctrl+S) or copy the selected items to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) and then paste them to Excel or other application.

LAN Speed Test (Lite) measures local area network transfer speeds by writing a file of any size to a folder of your choice, then clearing Windows' file cache (otherwise read times would be skewed). Next, it reads the file back, clears the cache again, deletes the file, and finally displays the results.

RealWorld Cursor Editor can create and edit cursors, both static and animated. You can draw your cursors pixel by pixel or make them from images using a simple wizard. Images in cursors can be modified by drawing tools such as Lines, Curves, Rectangles, or Ellipses. A drag-and-drop based interface allows users to easily reorder, duplicate, or append frames to animated cursors.

The program contains several predefined filters covering color corrections, softening, sharpening, motion blur and other effects. Selected filters (for example drop shadow) can be applied on multiple images at once.

Can import cursors from Linux XCursor format.

BinText is a file text scanner / extractor that helps find character strings buried in binary files. The program can extract text from any kind of file and display plain ASCII text, Unicode (double byte ANSI) text, as well as Resource strings. Additional useful information for each item is included in the "Advanced" mode. Uniquely, the program will show both the file offset and the memory offset of each string found.

Although primarily targeted for programmers, it can be used by anyone interested in ferreting out character strings buried within binary files.

Note: Although updated versions of the program exist, the 3.00 version is listed for reasons described in forums.

SoftPerfect File Recovery helps you recover accidentally deleted files from floppy disks, hard drives, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption.

Todomoo is a todo manager specially designed to help you manage paid projects without advanced scheduling. It organizes projects in hierarchical tasks, in different categories. It stores payment details, timers and multiple notes for each task. Supports task sorting by every main window column. It features automatic backups and automatic update checking.

Hex-A-Hop is a puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles. There is no time limit and no real-time elements. The objective is simply to destroy all the green hexagonal tiles on each of the 100 levels. As you progress through the game, more types of tiles are introduced which make things more difficult and interesting.

Free QR Creator allows quickly and efficiently create "Quick Response" codes, increasingly popular for readability and data storage. Many smart phones can also view and analyze QR data, used frequently in advertisements and public service tools. Also supporting microQR codes, customized background and foreground color, rotation, and border size.

Export formats include BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and EMF.

A43 is a file manager with integrated text editor, integrated zip/unzip functions, file search, quick launch area and dual-pane view. Includes favorite area for often-used folders.

Unknown Devices, as the name suggests, helps you track down devices connected to your computer that the computer cannot identify. These are common with new or unusual hardware, and listed with yellow question marks in the Windows Device Manager. Working in concert with the Device Manager's own information, this program attempts to find out what exactly is connected computer.

Note: You may need physical access to your machine interior to get device numbers from you motherboard.

See our forum post on how to update the device lists.

Ten Timer is a simple, multiple-timer app that supports up to 25 countdown as well as count-down timers. The program is great for multitasking many things at once such as cooking, cleaning/soaking, or for helping keep track of how much time something has taken (a race or other complex sequence).

Supports hotkeys, the ability to stop/start/reset all timers.

Windows Error Lookup Tool (WELT) takes error codes in decimal or HRESULT and displays them in English.

Mpg2Cut2 is a simple MPEG2 editor to join, append, merge, cut, or split a variety of mpeg file types. The program can handle very large files (64bit) captured from Digital Television broadcasts, including High Definition. Includes the ability to correct minor errors in the program stream like faulty aspect ratio, missing headers, or copy selected portions of a MPEG2 Program Stream.

Note that the program is not a MPEG4 (MP4) editor and MPEG1 is only partially supported. Supported extensions include .mpg, .mpv, .m2v, .vob, .m1v, .ts, .evo, .m2t, .pva, .mpeg.

Font Viewer quickly displays all the fonts installed on your system.

Dirhtml creates index.html files that list files in a folder (and optionally subfolders). With scripts, dirhtml can incorporate customizable HTML code to create unique web pages.

NexusImage is a simple, lightweight image viewer with basic edit functions including rotate, flip, and caption. The program dims your desktop when in focus, has easy scrolling with thumbnails, and includes includes Exif (metadata) viewer, smoothing mode, and more.

Supports most common image formats including JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, WMF, JP2, and the various JPEG2000 image types.

PNotes is a light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. Features include screen docking, groups, auto-save/backup, encryption, settings for individual notes, transparency and scheduling.

Alternatively:

• PNotes Portable from PortableApps.com

RedEyes is a powerful host and network monitor designed for testing performance and availability of hosts connected to the LAN or Internet (workstations, servers, routers, etc) with an IP address, as well as services running on these devices that work with TCP and alert administrators in case of failure of these devices or services.

Underline is a simple and intuitive Reading Bar/Line Reader/Highlighter.

Languages: French and Italian

Note: Website is in Italian (translation available).

Hokrain is a lightweight, fast audio player that allows you to present tracks as waveforms to make file seeking easier. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and compatible with most popular formats. The program is also built with keyboard controls in mind for quick, transparent controls.

Note: Website expired, switched to Softpedia.

Explorer++ is a multi-tab Windows Explorer replacement, featuring image preview, keyboard shortcuts, customizable user interface and advanced file operations (merging, splitting) etc.

Alternatively, Explorer++ Portable adjusts paths and automatically switches between 32 and 64 bit.

Secure Password Generator allows you to create random secure passwords. You can use lowercase, uppercase and special characters, numbers and user-defined characters. You can choose the length and the quantity of generated passwords and save them to a text file.

Note: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org and softpedia for the download.

DTC calculates both delay times in milliseconds and frequencymodulation values in Hertz for a given song tempo.

APNG Anime Maker is a program to create animated PNG files.

Note: Visiting the website and reading the "How To Use" section is recommended.

Mousinity creates an infinity effect for your cursor when it reaches the edges of your screen. For example if you go to the top of your screen, your mouse will appear on the bottom, right-to-left, etc. This is especially useful for large screens.

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

Note: The program has no icon or taskbar item so when you want to close the application, run Mousinity again and select 'yes'. Website offline, linking to archive.org and Softpedia.

LookInMyPC generates a complete, comprehensive system profile that includes information on all installed hardware and software. Additionally it provides system diagnostic information such as details on running processes, installed services, startup programs, Windows updates and hot fixes, active network and Internet connections, TCP/IP port usage, event log detail, and much more. All this is provided in an easy to read, formatted report that you can view and print using your web browser.

Sh'elf is an on-demand window that functions just like your regular desktop, complete with drag-and-drop capability. Program supports relative (portable) paths for customizable image viewing, text editor, command shell, etc., as well as interface options such as stay-on-top and tray icon.

Good for alternate shells or quick access to another directory as an alternate desktop.

NOTE: Both 32 and 64-bit versions are contained in the download. Site offline, linking to softpedia and archive.org.

M3U Dropper creates, imports, and organizes playlist files that take selections from an audio/video collection and put them in an order of your choice. This is useful for example in creating a mix of songs or videos with a specific mood or purpose. As the name suggests, the program creates M3U files which are used in most software players (Winamp, Foobar, Songbird, etc.) and many hardware players (including the iPod). Can also output to and import from other playlist formats including M3U8, PLS, and WPL.

Although other programs can generate playlist files, M3U Dropper uses a more portable method of relative pathways.

MycView automatically displays a slide show of all the pictures of a given directory in full screen mode. Reads a variety of file formats including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PNM, EMF, WMF, ICO, CUR file formats, as well as list LST files, SLD (XnView).

Other features:
- Automatic closing at the end of the slideshow with the parameter "/c"
- Display in a window or full screen with the key "f"
- Opening a new file with the keystrokes "Ctrl-O"
- Opening a new directory with the keystrokes "Ctrl-D".
- Number of loops defined with the parameter "/l"
- Number of seconds per image defined with the parameter "/s".
- Open the context menu with the Middle-click or "Ctrl-M"
- Change the background color with the option "/b"
- Automatic rotation with the exif information.
- Browse images with thumbnails

TyperTask is a powerful automation utility with a simple text-based interface. The program enables a variety of capabilities including automatic text replacement as you type, launch of web addresses and files via hotkeys, mouse events, window focus and more.

Note that first-time users should read the detailed instructions and examples of function definitions available under the Help menu.

NOTE: Program discontinued, linking to archive.org. Also available from PortableApps (thanks shnbwmn).

QIcon Changer is a small tool that allow you to patch the icon of any kind of application (including .exe and .scr), overwriting the previous icon resource with the new one you chose. Just drag an icon file (.ico) from your desktop then drop to the application layer then do the same process with your target application, drag an executable from your desktop then drop in the application layer then you can apply the modification and enjoy your new application icon.

Note: If the target application is compressed / packed it will not be able to patch the icon because most packer will make resource format invalid.

Universal Viewer can open many different formats including text, binary, rich text, images (including Photoshop), videos, audio, etc. Many office formats including PDF, DJVU, and MS Word / Excel. The program can open large text files, such as log files, very quickly and without eating memory.

ZSoft Uninstaller is a unique program removal program that does pre and post-install system analysis to provide a way to remove all changes made by an installed program. This is useful over provided uninstall tools or programs that search for traces left behind afterwards, although the program can run a search cleanup if you didn't do a pre-install check.

Additional system-cleaning tools include a temporary and empty folders cleaner, as well as a system start-up manager.

Languages: Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and more.

UUID Generator is a small program for generating UUIDs. A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

Note: Official website is offline -- linking to Softpedia download.

WinSize2 provides several window management tools in one. The program automatically re-sizes windows according to predefined sizes, saves and restores icon positions on the desktop that get moved during resolution changes, and even renames window titles or and can send an application predefined characters (e.g. some Tab characters to set the focus in the window to a special field).

The program stores individual window positions for unique resolution settings (e.g. larger screens settings may want larger sizes to fit the screen precisely).

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