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Now at v.7.2

@juverax: Isn't 7.2 a beta/WIP version?

To my understanding, the last version working in XP is 7.0.0.0

I find it a good Program. Only one of its kind. You should know where your registry hives are.

Get the awesome guide on "Monitor, clean and optimize the Windows registry" at:
http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1298105.htm

wrong url joeyjuviyani
right url : https://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1298086.htm

I cannot find an .exe file to download. What I get is a .torrent file which universal extractor does not recognize.

@ jgermann: Scroll down to the bottom of the download page and use one of the mirror downloads (e.g. USA Rowan.edu). Klick on "HTTP".

According to the website, Portable Python is no longer being developed. It would seem that WinPython (http://winpython.github.io/) is its successor.

why doesn't the author put all the .wav files in a subfolder?

This software protects and monitors changes to your registry and system files on Windows. It has saved me lots of time and effort with foistware and other unwanted system changes made by certain programs. It offers a registry backup facility which backs up your entire registry every 28 days and retains the last 15 copies. This has also saved me when I rather over-zealously tried to remove GotoMyPC from my computer. In terms of resource usage and intrusiveness, you will barely notice it's there, especially once you have exempted certain alerts from coming up after your initial deployment. Excellent and well recommended.

There is a new version 1.2.8.8 with support for Windows 11

@Midas

There is one now.

Thanks for that, I am Baas.

'About' says it's NTFS Undelete 0.93.

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.

Now at version 1.7

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.

DSpeech is now version 1.63.3 Released 2017 Mar 27 at Authors site.
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/index.html

Download Link=>
http://dimio.altervista.org/stats/download.php?id=5

DSpeech is now available in .paf format over at portableapps.com - version 1.63.3 Released 2017 Jun 09
https://portableapps.com/apps/accessibility/dspeech-portable

Download Link=>
http://download3.portableapps.com/portableapps/dspeechportable/DSpeechPortable_1.63.3.paf.exe

Enjoy!

I've got to say that DSpeech has come a long way over the past few years. The last time I tested it the program felt like it was just a simple throwaway text reader with Microsoft voices front-end program. What I tested today had loads of features, usability, and a great interface. This contrasts a lot of other voice-to-text tools that I've been playing with, including LibreOffice and Firefox add-ons, which are fairly basic.

Very nice to see.

I'm really impressed with this program. It handles changing voices midstream (so you can create conversations) better than Balabolka (and a lot of programs can't chance voices at all.

I am having one problem: I can't get the special tags to work. The silence tag works fine, but the others appear to have no effect at all.

Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you.

@rogerthedodger: I changed the license type to donationware. Is it better now?

@SYSTEM
License says it's free to use/distribute... reverting to License=Freeware. There was already a note about the limitation in the description above.

In 2018 he changed his web address to:

https://www.rqmoney.eu/rqmoneyen.html

Yeah, unicode support must be one of the first features in such a app:/

Shows up as 64bit in TaskMgr and Task Manager Deluxe on Windows10 64bit

@PAFuser: DotNET apps tend to reflect the underlying OS bitness, unless instructed otherwise.

is there a way for this program to read an Outlook (not outlook express) address book listbox of type OUTEXVLB? I do not get anything at the bottom of the screen. I have tried it with around 200,000 items and with about 800 items and nothing shows up. Is it because this program does not support this particular listbox/window???

Thanks for the great tool!

v1.50 now has a drag and drop button taht you drop on the window you want to see the text from. It makes this very valuable the tool so much easier and intuitive to use. An excellent upgrade, imo.

Unfortunately, it still does not seem to handle Outexvlb type listboxes.

*Extremely* important tool for software testers. Getting lengthy error messages out of static windows is critical to helping developers understand what went wrong. If you want to help any of the makers of software on this or other sites, start with SysExporter.

The download link has been updated to the new site where Hex-Ed can be downloaded without problems.

Thanks!

81KB. I don't know why I love these small proggies so much. Anyhow, this editor works great. It is not polished, but it certainly works. Good call, AlephX.

website problems

@hugh_h You can try GMER http://www.gmer.net/ Scroll to the downloads there's also and mbr and userland rootkit detector.

Latest official link:
http://hddscan.com/download/HDDScan-3.3.zip

Non malicious web site according to virus total (checked with 38 site checkers)
Non malicious files according to virus total. Clam claims it could be a PUA but only because it performs low level analysis of a hard drive (which of course is its role in life).
My company, virusbusters, has used this program for over four years now with no issues. It has passed every antivirus scan of our systems and we run hundreds of them
The file is a zip file and opens in 7-zip and using windows XP compressed file explorer.

This program worked beautifully in testing an old external hard drive that was behaving strangely. Instead of relegating it to a secondary backup drive, it now looks to have plenty of life left.

A very basic photo edit tool that definitely comes in handy. Although light-years away from skilled hands using photoshop, this tool is primarily to fix minor mistakes and picture problems (stains, tears, splotches). Larger wipe areas will show a smudge created by the cleanup tool but sometimes its worth it for what it covers up. Only 1.5 megs makes for a terrifically small and easy tool.

attention, this linke for download goes to a no portable version

@Regis: ...which would probably be v1.20?

Stealth: no
Creates HKCU\Software\DiskInternals\ZipRepair
(contains no values, though)

Great piece of software. Tried fixing an archive in WinRAR but it failed. Tried this and it was able to rebuild the Zip file. Thanks for the post!

You only need this program when something goes wrong and I got a chance to test it when an archived ZIP file went bad. The program worked great and did exactly what I needed. The program extracts the files from the archive that it can, then re-zipps them out to a new one (that isn't broken). Since I then extracted said archive, part of me wishes there was an option to just extract the good files and folders.

Now this great little utility saves it's settings in the local folder making it totally portable. THANK YOU, Nir !

1.71 works for ie7 (even though nirsoft does not claim it) it also works for vista (with the caveat that you cannot get rid of the signature warning even if you unblock in the file properties) 1.70 Works with Vista/ie7/portably but does write some items to registry

IMHO, the best registry cleaner is Argente Registry Cleaner. Supports 64-bits and there's a portable version. I'll probably add it to the database next month. www.argentesoftware.blogspot.com/

I totally second lautrepay's opinion about Argente Registry Cleaner.
Happy holidays everybody!

nice program to really mess up your system-had to reinstall outlook express!Try googling" regcleaner last freeware version"that program is safe and been using it for years-you can install a program then open regcleaner and it will show you what keys have been added-that same comany made regsupreme which I use but no longer made-that has never caused me any problems.regcleaner has an installer but does not write to the registry-dont know if it works on windows 7 but try maybe.

Disregard that, I just got it working. The instructions were a little confusing.

gms9813: thanks -- updated the instructions a little, hopefully its easier

Everytime I use it, this program surprises me away with a LOT of data about files. If ever you want to try and understand the history, author, or other details about a given file, ExifTool is a great place to start.

Very Popular but sadly neglected

SourceForge currently reports (Jan2016):
16,000 downloads this single week
and over a MILLION downloads in the last year !
BUT Last updated Aug 2014

What a shame this excellent software isn't developed to its full potential
or sold to someone who will

NickR: Prefer LibreOffice's Drawing tool, which takes some getting used to but also does a bit more than Dia. It's also in active development.

Briefly used it to draw a complex diagram for a project at work. Seems powerful but usability and UI require getting used to.

@joby_toss: Tried it again today and it works, too. Yesterday it wasn't working the whole day. Anyways, glad to see that it works again.

Hi, someone please fix the web and download links. Both are incorrect.
https://fnxbasic.com/wordpress/
http://fnxbasic.com/wordpress/fnx-12-2013.zip

Although the security certificate of FNX Basic homepage has lapsed, the page is still accessible. OTOH, the original download location is missing, so the link was updated with kanu's suggestion.

This tool can be downloaded from here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Encopy-Download-21693.html

Absolute useless software.

The program is freezing on launch for me in Win7x86

v2.0 available!!
http://www.withopf.com/tools/hdiskdefrag/

Dependencies: Needs admin rights

Really amazing number of imports and exports. Can pull from Outlook, vCard, Mozilla, Eudora, spreadsheets, Vista, and LDIF. Unfortunately I got error messages when I tried to export to excel/csv, which is a format I really needed.

Nearly Two years later... This app is currently hosted at: http://www.fonlow.com/opencontacts/ Having tried numerous contacts and address book apps including Thunderbird, I have yet to find something versatile, portable, configurable and reliable. While it sounds promising, if this doesn't work, I'm going back to Outlook express 6! I'm currently storing my database in MS Office Excel 2003 portable which I found and I love it! I just can't get Outlook .pst files to work.

v6.1.9.727 is available, dont know if still portable

Emka: Thanks -- updated.

Sorry, I just noticed the noping.net site was down. The program is now avalable at http://www.tristable.net/osiva/. The source code is also available there, Osiva is now under the GPL.

@Kent Stork
Thank you. Links updated. I noticed Osiva is at version 1.30 but the file size is much smaller compared with the version listed on the portable freeware collection. Could you post a changelog, please? Also, I understand Osiva is free and gpl'd but what about "If you use Osiva please send me an email"? Is it mandatory? Cheers.

"did you" even :)

DPWipe screenshot is outdated... (http://www.paehl.de/pro/DPWIPER.jpg)

@Midas
Updated :)

As I've also said to the originator of this program - very useful but the language is really bad (like when was Window's (plural) = Windows) - or is it a way to not infringe on any copyright issues?

Trend Micro blocks the download link, listed as 'malicious'. anyone else have this problem?

Links are dead... :(

good player but i have not found how global hotkeys can be changed
using 1by1, thanks r4

Couldn't find server

@Garry: The official website (kimero.com.ar/soprano) has been down for some time, but the file is still available here:
http://www.pendriveapps.com/soprano-minimalist-audio-player/
http://www.netzwelt.de/software-download/11207-soprano.html

http://download.cnet.com/ReSysInfo/3000-2086_4-10832133.html
Link found for download.

Portable version available from http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-ReSysInfo-Download-104340.html

outdated

To change the program to start up with the English language, you just have to change Language: in the xpconfig.ini to say English

xpy and xp anti-spy offer more features

Thanks for this post - it's much appreciated and I really like to use these tools. However you might want to use an XP registry cleaner

Thats because virus-scanners are scamware. They nowadays recognize anything which MAY someway be related to malware (i.e. a trojan hiding itself via executable compression!) as virus. I had that happen recently to me with a business client - we had Imagine (image viewer) running for years, then at some day Avira decided to classify it as a trojan, because.... it was packed with a certain executable compressor.

Virus-scanners nowadays are designed for morons who are unable to make decisions based on information - they are made for clueless people who want to be told if something is "good" or "bad", NOT "perhaps" or "maybe".

nPack V2.0.100.2008 is unavailable on the original place. Download it here:

http://www.intel-assembler.it/PORTALE/4/npack_2.0.100.zip

site down

A good alternative software that, while not as simple, doesn't require the MSVBVM60.DLL file: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=208

This is very handy when dedicated to a process you do often-emailing pictures for instance.I have FastStone too (which is great) but with Fast Image Resizer you can just drag a picture onto its desktop shortcut.If you want,it'll clean off the exif data too.

I understand that the resulting zip has to be

it looks very useful, but i keep getting this error "failed to open volume (any letter) offset: 0 size: (size of drive in bytes)

this app works also under Vista

Bad Link, I get:
"http://www.roadkil.net/download.php?File=undelete
File Not Found!"

You can download the file at:
http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=28

It doesn't produce a bit-stream copy (forensic safe). I restored a forensic safe image of a drive and then create an image with this software. I computed the hash values for the images, they don't match. I am albeit leary of this.

I think to produce a forensic copy, you will need to connect the drive to a write block device. You can not use software this way to produce a forensic image.

Note 2: apart from being irritating, it kinda defies the whole purpose of data recovery...

it is too big and needs memory, but the author claims to reduce it in last version. Wonderful possibility: recover the shadow area in picture!!!

Two best of the best image editor I found on Portablefreeware:
Fotografix: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1549#comments
Artweave: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1390#comments

Fast and light. GIMP still weight.

No longer available through Website or Download links
Active Pixels has retired maybe

http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1660

Would the lack of filename scrambling fool a recovery tool into classing the file as in good condition?

I've run this several times over my drives and Recuva, Undelete plus, Restoration and Pc inspector file recovery are all picking up thousands of "deleted" files in good/excellent condition

No longer portable.
The ini file for the settings is stored in the application data folder

Great! It works like a charm!

I was searching for programs to extract corrupted .dbx files, and I only found commercial ones.

NWL format mentioned in synopsis?
... could that be a typo for NWS format?
very useful app thanks

NickR: good catch -- updated.

C:\Users\JamesVanRude\Downloads\JkDefrag64-3.36\JkDefrag64 h: -a 3 -f 0 -d 3 -l "h.log" -q

i forgot to test it before i posted it, lol

be sure you get the path right

tried it on my portable hd (2tb)
it is ok, but the optimization is lacking; it does some, but not alot
in order to put the portable software first, i put everything else in an 'x' folder and ran the defrag sorting by file/folder...
...then, when the portable apps are in the first position i switched to fill.. but jkdefrag doesnt fill smartly at all, so i switched to mydefrag
... using monthly data defrag and then switching to consolidate i achieved better results... you can do a defrag only alternating with consolidate to get better results
... finally, for a portable hard drive, i recommend defrag only option, as a regular maintenance... in fact, use it as the screen saver, on defrag only, all drives

This appears to be defunct. The portable version is no longer available to download from the website, and the website for the newer non-portable version no longer exists. v3.36 is still available from https://filehippo.com/download_mydefrag/4595/.

No longer exists! Go ahead and click the link, if you do it takes you to the site, you can download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, which contains the Rogue Remover, however, is not portable to the best of my knowledge.

.. Version 1.24 is still available from http://tinyurl.com/brrgfs (shortcut to the relevant SnapFiles page; file is actually hosted at the original publisher's site)

Nope...this is no longer available at majorgeeks or tinyurl. What's more, with something like an antivirus or antispyware, putting your faith in an old version is worse than not having any tool and still being wary. The ostensible successor is Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware product which is not stealthy...albeit it does work very well.

very bad. One of the worse software I've used

Very interesting application when you take time to invest in it. Much more than Rainlendar although less fancy interface. Has also the import tools and is fully Unicode. Must be used by a large number of users, as it appears in 7 languages already. New search function quite usefull. Imports are possible from Excel. Extra features, such as the Money application, can be used to replace money or quicken in simple households. The music and film functions are quite handy. I'm positively surprised : it's much better than it seems at first hand.

Apparently not free: "We advise you that the downloaded file gives you the right to try the program for 30 days. If you want to use the program longer than the 30 days, you need to buy the license key with us. The downloaded program is fully functional, and contains all 8 languages"

Total Crab.......there is no file it takes you to just another page.

Broken link....The download link leads to an ad website. Could not download the software.

Generally speaking, if its 4 lower-case letters, this will take a few minutes. If its 5-6, you're looking at hours. Above that, days.

Entry updated. I didn't realize that was offline or I would have fixed before now.

The Tools doesn't work. It generates a C++ error and the author doesn't react on emails

@ linuxamp
Or a Live XP boot cd, like Bart PE.

Webpage gone, redirected to Softpedia.

This is an excellent idea. My college site won't allow images in html as it deletes them all. Everyone is amazed that I can create images in my postings--lots of ooohs and ahhhs.

I agree that this little app is completely useless, but it has a high prank value. Since resulting html file can be nicely compressed with 7zip (e.g. 4MB->10kB), one can create sfx 7zip installer that unpacks and opens that html in browser, and since everything hangs when opening table so big, poor victim can only wait for it to completely load and watch some idiotic picture in the meantime.
More interesting program is one I found long time ago that creates ascii art from picture, with colors and html formating, but the resulting html file is still quite big. Unfortunately, I cannot recall it's name.

This program is useless for protecting images. But it's great for when you can't use images. HTML only web hosting services, for example.

Juvera: one of your comments was way too long. It's removed now.

Rtf Convwrtor is the same program as Doc Convertor .
Except that Doc Convertor has a valid Download .

Please consider billon's comment at http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1268#comment26887 ...

Also it looks like RTF Convertor can be downloaded from http://www.highdots.com/downloads/.

I use this at least twice a month to help organize.

neat idea... although it's maybe showing a little too much? lol, guess that might not be a bad thing, but the "on top" feature works, made notepad "on top" for a message to keep up while updating programs in the background that would always pop over before... worked great, can even close window list and it stays until notepad was closed... nice

see: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/TextFileOperations.shtml

(run EXE: un-click Start & Desk items)
(rename Install Dir during/after install)

Not only site is dead long time ago, it's not stealth starting from Windows NT, saving settings in user profile, so entry must be deleted.
Please downvote

@billon: Andrew Lee, TPFC's owner, is one of the upvoters -- so please forward your findings to him...

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