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Svchost.exe is the most mysterious process in Windows XP/Vista. Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The authentic svchost.exe file is located in C:\Windows\System32, but numerous viruses and trojans use the same file and process name t...

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. It's great for pre...

I'm not a total fan of Total Commander, although I own a copy. I find the twin windows a bit distracting and there are just too many configuration settings to tinker about. However, If I had the time, probably I might get it to jump through hoops. I have been using ACDSee v2.4 for a long time and st...

risk wrote:UltraEdit gets my vote.

http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=UE_MoreFeatures

UltraEdit gets my vote too. It was the best $49.95 I paid so many years back and its been faithful to me through every programming language I can think off.

I used to complain about not being able to make my Bookmarks manager portable until I found a plugin for Firefox called "Flat Bookmark Editing" and "Foxmarks Bookmarks Organiser". Since Firefox is already portable, I could now carry all my bookmarks within Firefox and organise th...

MD5Summer Website: http://www.md5summer.org MD5Summer is a GUI version of md5sum. You can create and check md5 checksums. The only problem is that it tries to associate the extension .MD5 with the checksum file. Otherwise the generation is fast, intuitive and can be recursive across directories. A v...

johnmbryant wrote:I installed PSPad ...
John

Your problem is that you installed the wrong program. We're discussing UltraEdit here, not PSPad.

...and Crash is right, you can make it portable.

Yep. I only noticed the small print when doing the search.
Thanks

This is an old-time ripper for mp3 and other formats e.g. flac. I just checked his site and he has just updated the program to include cdrdao (which is not much use to me). Although it is in beta (it has always been in beta!) it can be copied and carried around as a single sub-directory. A little bi...