NOTE: Recent press about CCleaner indicates it may represent a privacy concern.
CCleaner is a feature-rich system optimization and privacy tool. The program cleans unused, temporary and log files from your system, as well as traces of online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. The program contains startup controls for Windows, major internet browsers and context menu entries. Includes a separate registry cleaner, duplicate search, system restore tool and can wipe both deleted files and drive free space for security.
A 64-bit version is available (within the folder). Monitoring functions are only available in the pro version.
Additional cleaner rules can be using an unofficial set of community-developed set. It should be noted that many of these rules are alpha and the developers will not provide support for these rules, a thread in the users forum is dedicated to supporting the add-on rules.
Alternatively, ccPortable is also available.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: |
If the "Portable" ZIP package is not yet available:
Don't forget to disable usage data sharing in 'Options' - 'Privacy'. |
Similar/alternative apps: | BleachBit, PrivaZer |
What's new? | See: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/version-history |
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Ennovy
on 2022-08-27 15:06
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I confirm writing to the registry (Windows 11): |
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.
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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 |
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jenss
on 2022-06-03 05:15
sumatra cannot read certain edited pdf documents
jenss
on 2022-06-03 05:19
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older sumatra as 3.4.1 also with read problem |
PSPad is a plain text editor with syntax highlighting support and tabbed interface. It includes an integrated hex editor, spell checker, FTP client, code explorer etc. It also allows you to automate repetitive activities through macro recording and playback.
PSPad supports column selection.
Note: The 64-bit version of PSPad is not limited by memory, but is missing the scripting capability of the 32-bit version, as noted here
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. HKCU\Software\PSPad Registers PSPad.project (.PPR) files |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? | See: https://www.pspad.com/en/whatsnew.htm |
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Shadeclan
on 2012-09-14 13:59
I figured out how to uninstall the user-chosen (custom) languages but it takes a little work.
Shadeclan
on 2012-09-14 14:46
If it's ok, I'd just like to make a few more comments:
rbon
on 2019-12-25 18:09
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I wanted a paf version of PSPad and I tried the online installer version of @prapper which unfortunately does not work. |
PortAL is lightweight launcher based on hotkeys, menus, and system tray icons. Note that all of PortAL configuration is based on a single XML file which contains the list and the organization of applications.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | MSVCR90.DLL MSVCP90.DLL |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: |
Note: To extract the 64-bit version too, choose "Auto Rename" (u) when prompted. The 32-bit executable is smaller in size. |
What's new? |
Full changelog at https://github.com/obsidev/guipro/releases. |
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Shadeclan
on 2015-07-03 17:22
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Current PortAL version is now 1.5 as of 22 Jun 2015. |
Batch Icon Extractor is a small tool for batch extraction of icons, including Windows Vista compressed icons. Icons from the file or from all files under the given folder are saved to a new folder called "icons" under the same directory as the folder/app. Also supports drag and drop a file or folder to the application icon.
Command-line tools also available.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | None. |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch BatchIconExtractor.exe. |
TrayLauncher is a program launcher that stays in the system tray helping you access your files and/or programs much faster. It also features a powerful "Run" dialog box and keyboard support.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download TrayLauncher.zip full package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TrayLauncher.exe. |
What's new? |
[2012-05-19] v2.6.0 new release with xml format(using pugixml), to support more features. New features will be added if no bugs found in xml release. [2012-02-12] v2.5.2 [TrayLauncher] Added : display language version in language menu. Added : updated default command example. [2012-01-05] v2.5.1 [TrayLauncher] Fixed : run dialog position not saved on system shutdown or user logout. [2012-01-03] v2.5.0 [TrayLauncher] Added : run dialog match command name not only (but prefer) from beginning. Added : run dialog try to execute when user click enter.(the list refreshes on each type, may be improved later.) Added : remember run dialog position in setting file. Added : new command line --sid=<session-id>, --ini=<setting-file>, for running multiple instances. Fixed : do not disable the menu item any more if run failed, could be a UAC cancel. [2011-12-15] v2.4.2 [TrayLauncher] Fixed : Holding Ctrl to run as admin should work for mouse click too. Fixed : error message not displayed if cancel run as admin in run dialog. Fixed : files not listed if directory has variables in run dialog. Fixed : error while run non-executable file in run dialog. Added : vs2008 project file. Added : remove history if run command failed. Added : type ":exit" to exit traylauncher. |
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dZon
on 2010-11-11 22:15
Really good for me ! Freeware, Open Source, Light, customizable... I like it for my portable applications. I'm waiting impatiently the gui editor. Thanks Chao !
TP109
on 2012-05-20 18:46
Responsive and light on resources. However, there is no one-click feature to easily remove entries from the interface.
Shadeclan
on 2012-06-01 15:00
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My Win XP installation has toolbar problems - the toolbars take upwards of 15 seconds to initialize and often need to reinitialize during the day; probably some strange conflict with my antivirus software. To compensate, I've been looking for a good application launcher that allows me to group / subgroup the shortcuts and I think I've found it with Tray Launcher. |