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Mem Reduct v3.4

freakazoid on 30 Sep 2023
  • 842KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Jan 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

Mem Reduct is a lightweight, real-time memory management application to monitor and clean system memory on your computer. The program uses undocumented internal system features (in the Native API) to clear system cache (system working set, working set, standby page lists, modified page lists) with variable result ~10-50%.

A 64-bit version is available within the archive.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the bin ZIP package and extract the version specific to your OS to a folder of your choice. Create an empty memreduct.ini in the same folder as memreduct.exe. Launch memreduct.exe.
What's new? See: https://github.com/henrypp/memreduct/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
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TP109 on 2022-07-13 08:09

Highly useful and necessary for machines with limited RAM. Run this in the system tray at all times to continually monitor RAM usage - when things slow down, a quick glance shows why - a couple of clicks to clean the memory and that usually speeds things up again.

netochavez on 2023-09-27 20:02

Hallo, Excuse me I am lost, I have not been able to identify which file to download. Could you kindly help me? Thank you.

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Jan's FolderSize v1.4

lwc on 6 Dec 2021
  • 168KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 May 2002
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

FolderSize scans a selected drive or folder and reports the size of all the subfolders. The result can be viewed in bytes, percentage of total space or as a bar graph

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FolderSize.exe.
Latest comments
__philippe on 2017-03-16 19:14

Jan'sFolderSize v1.31 : Oldie but Goodie product !

Belatedly noted JFS scores 9/60 on Vir*sTotal, mildly concerning results most probably imputable
to JFS *.exe being packed with ASPack compressor, which many vir*s checkers tend to frown upon.

No matter, JFS has been running forever with aplomb and without any apparent side effect on my overly oldie XP machine...;-)

MIKLO on 2017-04-03 14:59

@sarahwilliams25 I will be the judge of what is the "better" app,as I'm sure others are also capable of making the same choice for themselves thank you :)
MIKLO

__philippe on 2021-12-07 03:30

Jan's FolderSize
NO differences between v1.31 an v1.4 binaries

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HxD v2.5.0.0

Midas on 13 Feb 2021
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Feb 2021
  • Suggested by nullx42

HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor including raw disk editing, modifying foreign RAM and handling files of any size. The program includes search/replace (ASCII | Unicode), export, checksum/digests, insertion of byte patterns, file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable" installer inside the ZIP package, extract it and execute. Launch HxD32.exe or HxD64.exe.
What's new? Full changelog at https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/changelog.php
Latest comments
Special on 2018-07-17 21:51

v2.0.0.0 is now out in stable, after almost 10 long years, and it's still the best Hex editor!

__philippe on 2018-07-18 09:54

Seconding Special's praise for HxD 2.0

HxD was remarkably useful yet in its former v1.1.7 incarnation.
Ten years on, the v2.0 release, resurrected from limbo, Phoenix-like,
offers an amazing list of new features and enhancements, such as:

• New Data Inspector
• New Unicode support
• Enhanced Search window
• …

https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/changelog.php

Recommended.

pacofdez on 2019-01-17 17:14

The solution to [Scrolling on Windows 10 tablet problem] is appreciated.
https://forum.mh-nexus.de/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=929

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QuickImageComment v4.38

billon on 21 Jan 2021
  • 15MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Jan 2021
  • Suggested by Midas

QuickImageComment is a tool with a variety of tools around viewing, editing and removing digital image metadata files. It can sync times, compare, export, or use the data to modify the file name (e.g. rename the file to the date the photo was taken).

The program functions with JPEG, TIFF and various RAW formats, retrieving data from a variety of formats including EXIF, IPTC and XMP properties.

The program has privacy features of deleting all metadata, which can include location and equipment used) as well as batch operations.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0+
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract it to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch QuickImageComment.exe or QuickImageCommentX64.exe
  3. After choosing the program language, select "Program folder" for "Storage location for user settings" and click "OK"
Similar/alternative apps: ExifDataView, ExifToolGUI,
What's new? See:
https://quickimagecomment.de/index.php/en/change-history
Latest comments
xor on 2016-09-28 20:57

looking forward not to hear excuses about some tags related to Exif.Photo.MakerNote, Exif.Image.Make and their dependencies that can't be removed which represent roughly 40 KB of file size

__philippe on 2016-11-17 14:16

QuickImageComment v4.26 released as of 17-NOV-2016

- fixed page display bug introduced in v4.25

Update notification courtesy smaragdus:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=84127#p84127

zorro on 2019-11-28 07:06

Requires DotNet 2.0

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AntiDupl.NET v2.3.10

billon on 27 Mar 2020
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Mar 2020
  • Suggested by JohnW

AntiDupl.NET is a tool to search for and delete identical or very similar pictures. Includes a customizable difference threshold and can highlight image differences, supporting JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EMF, WMF, EXIF, ICON, JP2, PSD, DDS, TGA and WEBP files.

The program can also detect image defects.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the self-extracting archive to a folder of your choice. Launch AntiDupl.NET.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: ImgSearch
What's new? See:
https://ermig1979.github.io/AntiDupl/english/index.html?page=news.html
Latest comments
webfork on 2017-03-21 02:08

I thought my similar image analysis program of choice was more than adequate but this program is remarkably good. The program works really fast on a TON of images and the change detection is very useful.

__philippe on 2017-03-21 12:12

@webfork

Appreciate your tightening of Antidupl.NET functional capabilities description, particularly in reference
to the product remarkable customizable divergence threshold and its image differences highlighting ability.

__philippe on 2018-01-23 07:38

Russian users are reporting some issues with AntiDupl v2.3.9
"version 2.3.9 # 7 is not working"
https://github.com/ermig1979/AntiDupl/issues/7

I'll gladly stick with v2.3.8 till the dust settles...;-)

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KuKnet FileRenamer v4.0

Andrew Lee on 10 Feb 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jan 2019
  • Suggested by smaragdus

KuKnet FileRenamer is a flexible, powerful and easy to use file renaming tool that supports Unicode, and drag and drop. Available rename instructions can be added, such as replace, insert, delete, change case, change file extension, truncate, numeration, prefix-suffix, regular expressions and more. Files can also be renamed according to metadata, including ID3 tags, EXIF, date-time, file size, hash, etc.

Processed files can be copied or moved to a user-specified directory, with access to frequently used rules. The program has a rich context menu with image preview, copy-to-clipboard, sorting, export list and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FileRenamer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Advanced Renamer, Ant Renamer, Inviska Rename, Rename Master
What's new? See German changelog here.
Latest comments
ripu on 2018-10-18 07:42

My mistake, it does not need admin privilege to run.

PAFuser on 2022-02-09 14:52

Web site German and does not seem to have link to program. Download 404 Error. Several site that are indicated as having program, do not, like Microsoft Store.

Andrew Lee on 2022-02-10 07:16

I have made a copy available for direct download.

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HTTPNetworkSniffer v1.63

billon on 3 Sep 2018
  • 187KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Sep 2018
  • Suggested by Checker

HTTPNetworkSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all requests/responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a simple table. For every HTTP request, the following information is displayed: Host Name, HTTP method (GET, POST, HEAD), URL Path, User Agent, Response Code, Response String, Content Type, Referer, Content Encoding, Transfer Encoding, Server Name, Content Length, Cookie String and more...

You can easily select one or more HTTP information lines, and then export them to text/html/xml/csv file or copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into Excel.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Capture driver (e.g. WinPcap Capture Driver or Microsoft Network Monitor), Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HTTPNetworkSniffer.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed bug from version 1.62: HTTPNetworkSniffer crashed when selecting network interface without connection information.
Latest comments
Ascend4nt on 2012-01-07 17:17

Under Windows 7 (and probably Vista), you may need to run this program as Administrator for it to work.
'SmartSniff' (also from Nirsoft) already has a manifest that will ask for Elevated Privileges.. not sure why this one was missed?

I am Baas on 2012-01-08 05:54

@Ascend4nt

Thanks. Entry updated.

bzl333 on 2013-03-13 02:50

pretty cool program. useful for adding domains to a hosts file or IP addresses to a PeerBlock type of app.

works on raw sockets for me on winXP SP3 so no need to install anything.

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FreeDraft v 1.0 Private

billon on 10 Mar 2018
  • 21MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Apr 2014
  • Suggested by zorro

FreeDraft is a free, slim and portable CAD-solution for Windows. It is able to load and save DWG and DXF and supports DWG-objects like blocks, layer, textstyles, linetypes (LIN), multiline-styles, layouts, ttf-fonts, AutoCad SHP/SHX-fonts, hatches (PAT) etc.
Designed to run without installation, even from USB.
Website is in german!

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: none
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: After entering your contact information (it's not a registration!) you get an email with the download-link for the ZIP. Downoad "FreeDraft.zip" and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch "FreeDraft.exe".
If application starts in german: got to "Werkzeuge" (2. menu from the right) > "Sprache" (last entry) > choose between english, czech, french, russian, spanish.

A Sharper Scaling V1.2

webfork on 19 Aug 2018
  • 624KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Apr 2017
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

A Sharper Scaling is a high quality image scaling technology mainly developed for upscaling. It preserves more details when creating larger resolution images from smaller ones compared to traditional methods (e.g. bicubic interpolation).

The program supports batch image processing.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Windows registry
Dependencies: .NET Framework 3.5+
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\A Sharper Scaling
Unicode support: Yes
License: Creative Commons BY-ND
How to extract: Download the "Mobile (zipped) version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ASharperScaling.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PhotoDemon

T-Clock Redux v2.4.4

billon on 31 Jan 2018

T-Clock enhances the clock on the Windows taskbar. You can customize the display, define actions to perform on mouse clicks/drops, set multiple alarms, show calendar, manage windows etc.

T-Clock Redux is an enhanced fork of Stoic Joker's T-Clock 2010 which is a successor of TClock, originally written by Kazubon in the early 90's.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / 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 "static" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch .reset_portable.cmd OR create an empty text file and name it T-Clock.ini
  3. Launch Clock.exe or Clock64.exe (for 64-bit OS)
What's new? See:
https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock/releases
Latest comments
__philippe on 2016-10-20 14:20

@davidroper

A mere seven years late, ...and counting....;-)

The 161 files included in the "tclocklight-040702-3.zip" package are mostly source modules kindly provided by the developer for the benefit of DIY hackers.

For basic execution, only the following files are required:

• TCLOCK .EXE 44544 09/07/2004 17:16 A--- tclock.exe
• TCLOCK .INI 1024 10/20/2016 15:09 A--- tclock.ini
• TCDLL~1 .TCL 48128 09/07/2004 17:16 A--- tcdll.tclock
• TCLANG .TXT 8234 06/10/2004 11:58 A--- tclang.txt
• TCMENU .TXT 477 05/09/2004 21:53 A--- tcmenu.txt

All the same, a nifty, teensy configurable clock utility, sitting pretty in WinXP system tray...;-)

tproli on 2017-09-28 11:07

Successor: https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock

Midas on 2017-09-28 13:29

IMHO, given the amount of fixes and updates and the fact that it retained portability, this entry should be updated to point to T-Clock Redux (Beta)...

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