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I use a 200x ATP ToughDrive rated at >100,000 read/write erase cycles, which is about 10x more cycles than typical flash memory. Amazingly fast...

Andrew It ran using PortableSmartFTP.exe, and RegShot recorded no entries. Additionally, PortableSmartFTP created a rather large (172k) Registration Entires file in its root folder. Settings were preserved between two different machines. However, on a third I couldn't get it to launch - not even the...

Replika This is a great find - IMO, and RegShot appears to confirm its portability. Preferred SmartFTP to all others I've tried. Steps I used: * Download SFTPNSI.exe, and use UniExtract on it * Use UniExtract on the SmartFTP.exe installer within the extracted SFTPMSI folder * Delete the SmartFTP Win...

Hank7

Checked the JkDefrag GUI w/RegShot, and didn't detect any registry entries. Nice, elegant GUI, too...


--Gary

Hi port2401! RegShot, listed at this site, works well at that. Steps w/RegShot: 1. Take your first shot before running the installed sw 2. Run the installed sw 3. Take your second shot after running the installed sw 4. Compare the two shots RegShot then shows the results of the comparison, which may...

AlephX Gnumeric has impressive statistical features, some unmatched by any other spreadsheet, but was also taken back by its Yetiness. Discovered abundant language localization modules living here: App/Gnumeric/share/locale/* Kept only the two en* modules, which shrunk it down to 30MB. Still somewha...

HareHippie

Regshot shows 10 keys created and 21 values added after running 'Portable' Bookmarks. These appear trivial, but it there's certainly an equivocation on the term "portable" here. Am rather puzzled that it doesn't save its settings to its root directory...


--Gary

Hi bulawil! In addition to FlightGeek's great suggestion to try TrueCrypt for your solution, you could also try FreeOTFE at http://www.freeotfe.org/ Like TrueCrypt, it offers an encrypted file-hosted volume. However, I've ran Sandra benchmarks on both, and FreeOTFE is dramatically faster than TrueCr...

From the site: "TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system." Big footprint, but extremely comprehensive with all hyper-li...

From the site: "Vibe Streamer is a free MP3 streaming server that allows you to connect and stream your music using only a standard web browser. - Play your music anywhere!" http://www.vibestreamer.com/vibestreamer/index.php Writes settings to the application folder. Didn't detect any registry chang...

"PECompact2 is a next generation win32 executable/module compressor. Commonly termed an 'executable packer', such utilities compress executables and modules (i.e. *.EXE, *.DLL, *.OCX, *.SCR). At runtime the compressed modules are rapidly decompressed in memory." Trial & Student* versions available. ...

From the site: "If you have lots of drive letters of different types of drives, such as mapped network drives, thumb drive (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash, CD-ROM and DVD then this utility is perfect to help you manage them." http://www.alexnolan.net/software/driveman.htm Regshot ...

Hi All! UPX can *significantly* reduce the size of both executables and dlls, allowing more programs to be 'packed' onto a USB drive. No additional software is required for the executables or dlls to work. A side benefit can be a faster loading program. UPX itself is a command line utility that live...