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SumatraPDF v3.5.2

Ennovy on 25 Oct 2023
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Oct 2023
  • Suggested by Darkbee

SumatraPDF is a lightweight, tabbed document reader for a variety of formats. Includes a wide variety of views including table of contents, rotation, facing pages, book view (2 pages side-by-side), full screen and presentation mode. Includes support for bookmarks, command-line arguments, hotkeys, and more. Additionally, SumatraPDF can function as a portable browser plugin. Supported formats include PDF, eBooks (EPUB, MOBI, FB2/FB2Z, PDB, TCR), Comic Books (CBZ/CBR/CBT/CB7Z), DJVU, CHM, XPS, TXT, images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, J2K, WEBP, TGA) and PostScript documents (PS/EPS, AI, PRN - requires Ghostscript).

Alternatively, Sumatra Portable adjusts recently used and most used file paths.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SumatraPDF.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: STDU Viewer
What's new? See: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Version-history
Latest comments
jenss on 2022-06-03 05:15

sumatra cannot read certain edited pdf documents
instead use sumatra prerelease :
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease
or use another reader : ex adobe reader

jenss on 2022-06-03 05:19

older sumatra as 3.4.1 also with read problem
note : prerelease is not recommended as default reader !

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HFS v2.3m

lwc on 17 Apr 2021
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Aug 2018
  • Suggested by Darkbee

HFS (HTTP File Server) is a great tool for sharing files on any device with a web browser. Just setup the program, add files and folders via drag and drop, and connect to the web address. The web view is an easy-to-navigate page that provides search, a variety of view options, and even the capability to download files and folders in a single archive (TAR format).

Other features include user controls, uploading, speed limits, transfer logs, "expert" view, and IP bans. Note that to make the program available over the internet, a dynamic DNS-type service may be necessary.

Functional in Linux under WINE.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download hfs.exe to a folder of your choice and launch
  2. When prompted to add to the context menu, select No
  3. When the program window appears, click You are in Easy Mode
  4. Click Menu, hover over Save Options and click To File
Similar/alternative apps: Everything (has a web interface)
What's new? See:
http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=wn
Latest comments
Midas on 2014-07-06 02:25

FYI, in the stunnel forum topic there's some additional tools for easy configuring HFS (http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21551).

smaragdus on 2015-08-01 00:24

The correct HFS forum thread - http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=32

Checker on 2015-08-01 12:25

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... link updated ;)

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WinBar v2.0.1

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 376KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Sep 2009
  • Suggested by Darkbee

WinBar is a system monitoring utility that provides information on CPU, memory, hard disk, battery etc. in a collapsible bar located at the top of the screen. It has various modules that you can enable/disable that provides access to a wide range of functions, including email, news, network time synchronization, application launcher etc.

WinBar is available in 32 and 64 bit editions.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GPL v3
How to extract:
  • Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  • Delete $R0 file, $PLUGINSDIR and $APPDATA folders
  • Launch WinBar.exe
  • Right-click on the bar to configure for portability
Latest comments
Technomancer on 2008-03-13 11:59

Nice neat utility. I can keep an eye on the CPU usage and see if it seems excessive.
Needs to have a similar display for HDD activity.

Wolfghost on 2010-02-05 17:33

New home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winbar/

Billy Bob on 2010-04-05 23:44

Look at Glint as an alternate, it shows CPU, disk and more

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Simple Family Tree v1.32

I am Baas on 1 Apr 2015
  • 572KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

Simple Family Tree enables you to create and view a family tree. It is able to display ancestors and descendants of any selected individual. It reads and writes files in the Gedcom (GED) format. You can enter notes, events, a second name, and marriage details for each individual.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the Installer and use 7-Zip to extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Move ijl15.dll in $SYSDIR to the application folder
  3. Launch Simple Family Tree.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Visual Family Tree Maker
What's new? Version 1.32

Adds Save As to File menu. (Jan 29, 2011)
Changes Individual's Info Print button to Export button. (10 Dec)
Fixes obscure bug in List routine. (27 Nov)
Reads birth/death dates from My Heritage GED files. (18 Nov)
Fixes a very obscure bug. (19 Oct)
Adds check and fix for bug caused in an old version. (18 Oct)
Adds Multiple Monitor capability (see the Edit menu). (11 Oct)
Fixes bug in Remove Photo routine. (17 Sep)
Adds Individual info print capability. (8 Sep)
Fixes natural and adoptive parent swap routine. (17 Jul)
Improves check for errors in Gedcom file. (Jan 20, 2010)
Fixes bug that might give a "Try again" message. (24 Dec)
Shows middle names(s) in boxes. (11 Dec)
Changes Menu slightly. (10 Dec)
Changes box size when different font (like Small Font) is selected. (7 Dec)
Works with individual's numbers up to 4,294,967,295. It used to only work with numbers up to 2,147,483,647. (18 Nov)
Adds another check for errors. (17 Nov)
Fixes bug that doesn't re-initialize individual's flags when highlighting new individual. (14 Oct)

Version 1.31

Keeps an obscure bug that shows a child offset from its single parent from occuring when entering that child after having
entered a child with a spouse. (4 Sep)
Adds automatic sorting of spouses by year of marriage when you open the Marriage window for an individual and close it with OK. (13 Mar)
Increased size of an array so a larger The Kings of Europe.ged can be viewed. (Feb 20, 2009)
Fixes a bug that didn't allow connecting existing individuals. (17 Nov)
Shows correct age of an individual within his birth-month. (4 Nov)
Fixes problem with pasting info into Individual's Note. (21 Oct)
Doubles the maximum loop iterations (for very big, complicated trees). (19 Oct)
Fixes a small bug. (6 June)
Fixes photo routine to work properly with Unicode characters. (6 May)
Changes photo data file format so individuals with same name can have their own photos. (22 Apr)
Fixes a couple of bugs. (17 Feb)
Adds Font selection to Menu. (13 Feb)
Fixes two bugs. (13 Feb)
Removes requirement for sex info in older data. (13 Feb)
Converted to Unicode and UTF-8 so it works with any language (theoretically). (Feb 12, 2008)
Latest comments
Ciaeho on 2009-07-31 03:30

GRAMPS has an portable version also

http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download

Thom on 2009-08-16 09:39

Downloaded version is 1.31 This version installs ijl15.dll in windows/system32 To run on a USB drive, copy the dll to the program diretory on usb drive.

Saleh on 2011-03-05 20:13

I tried writing in Arabic and it saved fine. Why is it written to not support unicode?

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GeneRally v1.2

Checker on 15 Mar 2014
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

GeneRally is a isometric 2D racing game for one to six players. You race on various tracks in time trial mode or against human/computer opponents in championship mode. If any of your are familiar with the 16-bit oldies like "Super Off Road Racer "or "SuperCars", then you will have an idea of what this game is about. It has some nice customization features and lots of options to tinker with, including building your own tracks.

Note: GeneRally requires DirectX V8 and above to work correctly.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GeneRally.exe.
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simon on 2007-03-01 13:13

i remember that i used to play with is when i got Win98 since WinXP i didn't know where to find it, and now... happy happy, joy joy

me so stupid happy cause i got this stupid little lovely pure gem game

its been about 6 years!!! :)

askvittorio on 2014-01-14 09:49

GeneRally's current website is: http://gene-rally.com/

Midas on 2014-01-14 10:31

Thanks for posting that, askvittorio. Entry updated.

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MyLib v0.93

webfork on 27 Jun 2015
  • 976KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

MyLib is a cataloging program that uses its own custom database design to store a variety of different catalogs. The program allows a search for file types (e.g. audio, media, text, etc.), sizes, and string/keyword search. MyLib even has a "borrowers" feature that lets you record who has borrowed a disc from your collection.

Note: website offline - linking to archive.org

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: mylib.conf.fdb (catalog images are stored in separate files, by default in ./Images)
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install the application to the default folder
  2. Copy all files (except uninst.exe) to a folder of your choice
  3. Uninstall the application
  4. Launch MyLib.exe
Latest comments
Maxom on 2015-06-21 12:11

This should be removed from the database. Neither the website, nor the link via archive.org do work, so there's no way to download. I guess the project is plain dead.

Craunch on 2015-06-21 13:18

The archive.org mirror link to http://ls.iatp.org.ua/download/files/mylib093ex.zip still works

Craunch on 2015-06-21 13:30

Oops! I spoke too soon - sorry.

Following the mirror site link from archive.org appears to start a download, but it stops after 125.5Kb has downloaded.

Following the link I gave above leads to a website in a Cyrillic language which I cannot read. If anyone can read it, it might explain what has happened.

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MaxLister v2.41

webfork on 3 Jan 2022
  • 269KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

MaxLister creates virtual images of floppy disks, CD-ROMs or other removable media. This is useful for keeping track of that vast CD collection, a problem that a lot of people come across these days. With MaxLister, you can save any drive or folder to a MXL file, then browse or search it in a Windows Explorer interface. You can also choose to save the information in a plain text file in three different layouts: Collapsed, Folders only and Folders and Filenames.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MaxLister.exe.
Latest comments
jasc on 2010-01-27 02:43

Website / Download - 402 Access Denied

jcpma on 2010-10-09 02:47

My .mxl files aren't associated with WindowsOS. Is the registry still affected?.
What is missing from maxlister: sorting ability; and locking up before starting. (I usually get around the latter by browsing to pre-existing .mxl file.) It's too bad that the app has stopped at version 2.41. Maxlister let you choose which particular directory of .mxl files you wanted to search through!

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CatFish v1.9

webfork on 3 Jan 2022
  • 220KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

CatFish allows you to save snapshots of all your floppy disks and removable media (ZIP disks, CDROMs). You can instantly find files in all catalogs by name (with wildcards), size, and/or date, see all total file and subdirectory counts as well as total space usage, export saved catalogs as text files etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CATFISH.EXE.
Latest comments
Roddersg on 2007-12-26 20:57

A good fast cataloger which creates a single file from each disk (.cf4) whose size ranges from 1K to 200k for lots of files. Its very fast and small. The find feature needs more work as it only locates the first find.

Marius on 2008-04-10 06:05

Worth the download - despite its age, still the program to beat.

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LittleViewer v1.1

Checker on 19 Nov 2013
  • 27KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

Little Viewer is a tiny image viewer that displays JPEG, GIF and BMP files. Select any folder and it displays the names of all images files found in that folder. Click on any file and it will display the image itself, with support for zooming in and out.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch LittleViewer.exe.
Latest comments
Thomas on 2008-01-17 13:54

The website www.brisksoft.com is down, but it can still be seen via Google's cache: http://tinyurl.com/2dposn - it's in English, but minimalistic and hardly worth visiting.
The file itself is available at external download sites, e.g.
http://www.brothersoft.com/littleviewer-download-40947.html
The viewer is totally minimalistic - no wonder at 20 k size... The biggest problem about is, you can't locate files in an external file explorer and then open them with this viewer. Instead, it always starts with a folder tree view of the desktop, from where you'll have to go on a "clicking journey" to locate the image folder you want to view. Overall, unless you're a complete tiny software freak, go get something a few kilobytes bigger but more comfortable...

__philippe on 2013-11-16 18:19

Word to the wise:
avoid BrotherSoft site downloads like the proverbial plague: their *.exe installer files are bundled with tons of self-serving advertising and other nefarious nuisances.

Here is a safer source for diminutive LittleViewer: (21k, compressed with Yoda crypter)
http://download.freewarefiles.com/files/LittleViewer.zip

Besides the above warning, I concur with Thomas about LittleViewer being perhaps a trifle too minimalistic to navigate folders in comfort, regardless of its appealing minuscule footprint.

Keeping the tiny league in mind, a more appropriate viewer choice might be:
MycView (40k, UPX-compressed)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2251


BTW, the FreewareFiles repository offers a nifty "Sort by File Sizes" function which I would dearly love to see implemented on PCF...;-)

Cheers,

__philippe

__philippe on 2013-11-18 14:26

Breaking news! (courtesy System)

Like a Phoenix amazingly rising from its ashes, LittleViewer's site is alive again !
Both site and dowload pointers are now operational.

__philippe

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FavTool

webfork on 27 Mar 2015
  • 45KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Darkbee

FavTool (Internet Explorer Import and Export Favorites) is a small utility to convert Netscape Bookmark HTML files (used by Firefox) into Microsoft Internet Explorer favorites and vice versa. The latest versions of Internet Explorer do include an import/export wizard, but some IE-based browsers may not have this function, so this is still a handy tool to have around.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch favtool.exe.
Latest comments
eli on 2008-07-18 07:01

I used to use it till I found bookmarkbridge (GPL) that works better and do not distort the UNICODE characters

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