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Metapad v3.6

Midas on 26 Jan 2016
  • 190KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 May 2011
  • Suggested by mjbdiver

Metapad is a small and fast text editor designed to replace Notepad with features including persistent window placement, dirty file notification, intelligent Find and Replace, external viewer support, usable accelerator keys, dual customizable font support, auto-indent mode, seamless UNIX text file support, no file size limit under Win9x, hyperlink support, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinNT / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Windows registry
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty text file within the same folder
  3. Rename this file metapad.ini
  4. Launch metapad.exe
Similar/alternative apps: EditPad Lite
What's new?
  • portability mode: store/load all settings from metapad.ini
  • new high resolution app icon
  • now remembers last open/save folder with option to disable
  • minor UI/usability updates
  • better defaults for general settings
  • UTF-8 file support (provided by David Millis)
  • fixed shift+enter bug (provided by Curtis Bright)
  • fixed convert to title case bug with apostrophes
Latest comments
Wolfghost on 2011-06-15 17:13

This one rocks !! Thanks :) Works with Win7 64bit too !

bawldiggle on 2019-10-16 21:29

Have been using Metapad and then Metapad360 for 15+ years
The range of text formatting tools are amazing.
My fav is "quote" Alt+Q, which inserts your custom string at col.1 of all selected lines/paragraphs/pages. Notepad++ does a similar thing BUT not all in col.1 ... Metapad makes it much easier to spot the "quoted" lines.
I am using "'o" , without the quotes, as my quote string.

bawldiggle on 2019-10-16 22:18

Forget to mention the "stickies" feature ...
10 shortcuts (Quick buffers) to paste your custom single line strings onto Metapad docs ...
** Settings (dlg) Buffers & Languages (tab/page)
hot keys Alt+<num> ... where <num> is (querty) 0 to 9
=OR=
selected text on saved file Metapad (config) -> Alt+Shift+<num> (ie qwerty-num)

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Calcute v11.5.27

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013
  • 233KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by risk

Calcute is an unobstrusive scientific tape calculator. Calcute lets you enter complete expressions as if you were using a regular text editor. You can see what you are doing so you can easily make corrections. Type what you want to calculate, press Enter to get the answer. The calculator keypad can remain hidden or it can be shown if you prefer to click buttons with the mouse instead of typing.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware (accepts donations)
How to extract: Download the installer and extract using 7-Zip to a folder of your choice. Launch Calcute.exe.
Latest comments
Fun, fun, fun. on 2008-02-21 18:02

Cool program, ugly though. In case you haven't figured out (it took me a while), the textured bar to the left of the text area is what you grab to move the window.

webfork on 2011-04-20 22:14

Every other device (Android, iOS, Mac, etc.) that doesn't have this format calculator just drives me crazy. Writing out the whole problem before calculating is so much better than a single window, single-output view.

MarkB on 2011-05-17 21:43

ESBCalc (free portable persion) is a good free alternative in my opinion.

http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm

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Firstobject XML Editor v2.4.2

webfork on 7 May 2015
  • 992KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Cornflower

Firstobject XML Editor (or "Foxe") loads multi-megabyte files quickly and lets you format and edit HTML, or any other loosely formed markup language such as XML. The tree view is customizable for useful navigation.

Other features include syntax coloring, word wrap, Go To Line, show XML path, Microsoft global IME, and MSXML based DTD validation.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, unable to deal with Unicode filenames.
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch foxe.exe.

Go to "Tools" --> "Preference" to select a location to store settings.
What's new?
  • filename first in foxe title bar
  • -run on command line arguments
  • period for data value in tree customization
  • foal: increased the size limit on num
  • foal: CMarkup updates
  • foal: fix for file read mode *Thank you Aditya Raut!
  • foal: StrTrim with optional flag 1=left, 2=right
  • Watch mode in the View menu
  • Watch file extensions in Preferences
Latest comments
CodesAway on 2010-07-03 05:00

Version 2.4.1.416 was released today. The version stays 2.4.1, but the build is 416, versus 404, which was the previous build.

olliebean on 2013-10-26 17:51

The current version of this (v2.4.2.431) isn't stealth; it leaves a bunch of registry keys (albeit all empty) at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\First Objective Software\foxe.

I am Baas on 2013-10-27 00:54

@olliebean
Firstobject XML Editor is stealth. Did you select "Executable Folder" for settings location (under preferences)?

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Open++ v1.5.1

freakazoid on 12 Oct 2020
  • 178KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by freakazoid

Open++ is a context-menu shell extension that allows you to quickly open selected files or folders with customizable commands.

Note: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Ability to write to the registry to register the shell extension.
Stealth: ? Yes. Use the "Uninstall" option to deregister the shell extension when finished using Open++.
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch OpenXX.exe
  3. Select the "Install / Uninstall" tab and click on "Install" to register the shell extension
Optionally, for path portability: use the "%OpenXXDir%" argument in the "Program" field. For example, if Open++ is located in x:\apps\open ++ and you want to add a program from the Opera folder, enter %OpenXXDir%\..\opera\opera.exe in the "Program" field.
Latest comments
freakazoid on 2013-11-28 22:46

@the_watcher - I'm on Win 8.1 and don't use Windows Explorer that often so I can't really verify. I use CubicExplorer.

webfork on 2014-11-09 02:15

billon: updated, thanks

stisev on 2017-04-20 16:04

Does anyone know of a way I could use this as a replacement "Sendto" menu. There's no software I've found that can do it. I would love to make my Sendto menu more portable when reinstalling Windows.

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Square Privacy Cleaner v1.2.1.0

webfork on 15 Nov 2016
  • 342KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Apr 2011
  • Suggested by guinness

Square Privacy Cleaner is a fast, powerful, and easy to use privacy protection tool, able to remove all the unwanted history data on your computer.

NOTE: Program has gone commercial but the last available freeware version is still linked.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SPCleaner.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: BleachBit
What's new?
  • Added support for cleaning of more Mozilla Firefox traces
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Azureus, TeamViewer, Pidgin, XChat, Google Toolbar
  • Optimized cleaning of traces of Microsoft Office Suite, RealPlayer, FlashPlayer and Java
  • Optimized cleaning of traces of Recent Files for Windows 7 OS
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Feeds Cache, WER and Cryptnet Url Cache
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Silverlight Cache
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Lunascape, Pale Moon, QtWeb, Comodo Dragon, ChromePlus
  • Added "Beep when cleaning of traces has finished" in Settings
  • Added "Beep when scanning for traces has finished" in Settings
  • Added "Scan for Thumbs.db files (slow)" in Settings
  • Added support for cleaning traves of Internet Explorer DOM Store, IETldCache, Google Earth Cache
  • Added bold font in "Analyze" btn
  • Added new mainmenu "Empty" -> DNS Cache
  • Added new mainmenu "Empty" -> Clipboard Cache
  • Added new mainmenu "Empty" -> Recycle Bin
  • Minor optimizations
Latest comments
Jimmy Neutron on 2010-10-31 14:24

If you close this program using the usual Windows red "X" in the top right corner, it will leave SPCleaner.exe running in Task Manager (and an inactive icon in system tray). Instead, you MUST pull down the file menu and choose exit to actually shut this program down. That's pretty rude going against Windows conventions.

joe on 2011-01-08 12:16

This app deleted everything an a mounted TrueCrypt volume.

Mike.S.G. on 2011-04-04 13:13

@Gary, Jimmy Neutron & joe

I hope you reported these issues to the dev? It can't be fixed that which is unknown :)

... http://www.novirusthanks.org/contacts/
... http://www.novirusthanks.org/support/

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Flexible Renamer v8.4

bzl333 on 24 Feb 2015
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Mar 2011
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Flexible Renamer is a file/folder renaming utility that supports regular expressions and ID3/EXIF tags.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Flexible Renamer.exe.
What's new? V8.4 2011/03/06

New:
* Windows 7 SP1 (Update File Property at TagRename)

Fix:
- Application error occurs when the character is deleted on the boundary of %

- Application error occurs when quitting the application on a certain environment

- Application error occurs when hovering over the vertical scroll bar in the form

- Application error occurs when searching files at TagRename

- A message like "Invalid parameters" is shown entering search-setting

- Folder in the folder tree may be hidden after rename

- '*' tag generates only 0 to 8(NOT 9) numbers
Latest comments
Magibon on 2011-03-10 01:16

this is indeed a very robust renamer!

im torn between this and Advanced Renamer :(
http://www.portablefreeware.com./index.php?id=1848

both are great, coming from payware 'Better File Renamer', both these freeware offer every naming scheme/option!

this seems to provide more support for multi-languages.
i will probably make the switch to this.

great add.!

Magibon on 2011-03-10 01:41

i take that back, i just tried using this and im disappointed in the interface.

sadly, the abundance of features make it very difficult to use.

im sticking with Advanced Renamer, while it doesn't provide support for multilanguages, it's interface is much more user-friendly. simplicity and ease of use for me is important.

i'll use this only when required for multilanguages, but for everyday usage, im sticking with Advanced Renamer.

ripu on 2015-11-02 10:41

I tried to use latest zip (8.4), could not do anything. There was no option to add rules. May be something is wrong with the UI or it does not support Windows 8.1 N version.

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WinSorter v1.6.0.8

smaragdus on 19 Jun 2017

WinSorter is able to manipulate highlighted text by selecting text and clicking on the TrayMenu icon. Changes include converting text to upper case, lowercase, and many variations in between. Can sort text alphabetically, numberically, remove duplicates, word count, and even do basic math operations.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Win Sorter -English.exe.
What's new? v1.6.0.8
  • ADDED: Clipboard window AND WindowsF1 launch
v1.6.0.7
  • MINOR CHANGE: Altered repeated functions
Latest comments
Enrico on 2011-01-06 13:13

Amazing little masterpiece, will save me a lot of time consuming multitasking to get the job done ;-)

Yuli on 2011-01-15 15:16

Nice program but... it doesn't work with cyrillic text. Therefore the program is unusable for many people who write in cyrillic.

Emka on 2012-07-18 20:30

Great! Has just saved my life!

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Name Swapper v1.3.0.0

bzl333 on 24 Feb 2015

Drag two files, or folders, and swap their names.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Name Swapper - English.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Swap'em, Switcheroo
Latest comments
Saleh on 2011-01-08 10:26

Great idea! I could use that occasionally although the time to launch the app and drag files will most probably take longer than manually renaming the files.
Still, thanks for the author.

portafreeuser on 2011-01-09 04:14

I could actually use this sometimes. Interesting idea for a program.

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NETTIME v1.0

webfork on 22 Mar 2016
  • 28KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by I am Baas

NETTIME communicates with time servers over the Internet, used in many countries for accurate date/time information, kept correct according to observatory/GPS data. The program tries to connect to each of these servers until it finds the date/time information and then asks you to correct your clock (automatic correction available).

NETTIME contains more than 100 predefined time servers and servers may be added or modified by editing the INI-file. An up-to-date server list is available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NETTIME.exe.
Latest comments
Frank on 2010-12-23 17:10

I like Nettime because it installed as a service which updates the system time when you boot up your computer. Wonderful.

drWimpy on 2011-03-30 23:08

Damnn; great prog but it does not switch correctly with european summer-time (whitch started some days ago in germany!)
Does anybody know an alternative which works from commandline (automatic and hidden, in background)?

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Card Creator v1.0

webfork on 1 Mar 2020
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Apr 2013
  • Suggested by vlasta

Card Creator makes greeting cards from your own photographs. Drag-and-drop your photos onto one of the built-in templates and save the resulting greeting card for emailing or printing. Additional custom templates are available for download from the website.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch CreateCard.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PhotoScape