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FCEUX v2.6.5

lwc on 5 May 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by PowerCat

FCEUX is a games emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, Famicom Disk System (FDS), and Dendy. It supports NTSC (USA/JPN), PAL (European), and NTSC-PAL Hybrid modes.

Note that to actually play any game with FCEUX you will need ROM images in one of the supported formats, not included with the download.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch fceux.exe
What's new? See:
https://fceux.com/web/version.html
Latest comments
ChemZ on 2011-04-29 15:05

This program is now called FCEUX, and version is at 2.1.4a (older version still available on website).

"The concept behind FCEUX is to merge elements from FCEU Ultra, FCEU rerecording, FCEUXD, FCEUXDSP, FCEUXDSP CE, and FCEU-mm into a single branch of FCEU."

http://fceux.com/web/home.html

Not sure about portability though...

Loner on 2012-04-19 17:46

For those of us who check these pages every day to see whats new, this program isn't categorized but from what I've read, I "assume" its a game. The description is very vague to those of us uninitiated.

thepiney on 2012-04-19 22:24

It's really not a game but an emulator similar to Mame and others. You add ROM files and you can play older games on your PC. In this case it's an emulator for NES and Famicom based games.

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sPlaylistMaker v1.1.0

lautrepay on 4 May 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Mar 2016
  • Suggested by Checker

sPlaylistMaker allows you to easily create playlist files via drag-and-drop. The program will recursively scan through dropped folders and create a playlist file in each folder with the name of that folder. Existing playlist files are left untouched, though.

Generates .m3u and .m3u8 playlist files and a command-line interface is available.

Category:
Runs on:Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch sPlaylistMaker.exe.
What's new?
  • Added option to prepend a string to the generated playlist filenames.
Latest comments
Checker on 2014-01-06 18:16

@ misan: If you klick on the little "?"-icon behind "Stealth" ...

What makes an application "stealth"?

For the purpose for this website, "stealth" means when an application is launched, used and terminated properly, it does not leave behind any entries in the registry or filesystem. Certain exceptions are permitted. For example, registry entries that are created/updated by Windows for the application (eg. MRU entries for dialog boxes, DirectX entries for DirectX-based apps), or temp files created in the official "Temp" folders are not taken into consideration. Note: "Stealth" does not mean non-traceability! In fact, it is quite unlikely you can hide your activities on a Windows machine from a capable system administrator.

Napiophelios on 2014-05-03 21:14

"Added ability to create video playlists."
This just became useful again.

Now I can load every episode of "The Amazing World of Gumball" all at once...very nice :)

DarkShadow on 2014-05-03 23:03

@ Napiophelios:
76 episodes of ~12 min/each = more than 15 hours to watch.
Wow!

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Dev-C++ v6.30

Andrew Lee on 3 May 2023
  • 164MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Jan 2021
  • Suggested by Andy Finney

Dev-C++ is an IDE for the C/C++ programming language based on the Mingw port of GCC. It features a project manager, syntax highlighting editor, class browser, code completion, integrated debugging etc. Orwell's Dev-C++ is also based on the famous Bloodshed Dev-C++ (which at present isn't being maintained by the original developer) and hosts a number of fixes including support for 64-bit processors.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "Portable" 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch devcppPortable.exe.
What's new?
  • Added: Parallel compilation enabled by default for release builds through MAKE Jobs.
  • Added: 3 Buttons for setting up custom shell command line tabs.
  • Updated: Code completion and menues for dark themes.
  • Updated: CTRL-TAB editor tab selection wrapping.
  • Fixed: Make clean file deletion issue.
  • Fixed: Status bar not showing all text.
  • Fixed: Debug/CPU Window hex column issue.
  • Fixed: Closing tabs in editor side by side view.
Latest comments
guinness on 2012-01-01 21:36

Thanks I am Baas. I've updated the entry.

bajaatan on 2013-06-25 08:24

New version Dev-Cpp 5.4.2 2013-05-26

juverax on 2023-05-02 19:33

Softpedia ( https://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Programming/Windows-Portable-Applications-Dev-C-Portable.shtml Updated June 25 2021 )
has updated versions

Version 6.30 for Win64 (uncompressed 500 Mb)
Also on github: https://github.com/Embarcadero/Dev-Cpp
It is a fork (from Bloodshed) by Embarcadero

Version 5.7.1 for Win 32 (uncompressed 616 Mb)

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Greenfish Icon Editor Pro v4.2

SYSTEM on 23 Apr 2023
  • 65MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Apr 2023
  • Suggested by risk

Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a tool for creating icons, animated or static cursors and other small images. Can extract icons and cursors from executable files and icon libraries, batch convert image files to icons or other image formats and supports advanced selection handling (marquee, lasso and wand tools, saving/loading selections from files). Offers various gradient styles for filling shapes, and includes many filters such as remove matte, drop shadow, inner/outer glow and bevel etc.

The program opens and saves in ICO, CUR, ANI, PNG, XPM, BMP, JPEG, WebP and TGA formats and creates icons and cursors up to 256x256 @ 32-bit, which can also be PNG-compressed for use in Vista and above.

Include Greenfish Image Converter (for processing TIFF and SVG files), which requires .NET Framework 3.5.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder). Alternatively, a PortableApps version is also available: Greenfish Icon Editor Pro Portable.

Category:
Runs on:Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gfie.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new?
  • New: Windows Explorer integration: metadata and thumbnail providers for all known image file formats
  • New: Customize keyboard shortcuts
  • New: Allow pasting a dropped image file for Explorer and Firefox clipboard interoperability
  • Improved: Show UI in appropriate colors if Windows is set to high-contrast mode
  • Improved: Different versions of GFIE can be installed and coexist on the same computer
  • Improved: Nicer thumbnails for small images
  • Improved: Faster random number generator
  • Fixed: Exif datetime was sometimes displayed incorrectly if time zone information was missing
  • Fixed: Program sometimes crashed when bucket tool was used on very large (>8000x8000) images
  • Fixed: Load/save failed for some NE/PE resources
Latest comments
thepiney on 2013-06-18 21:24

When you click the download link, a page opens with the download, just un-check the "Use our download manager and get recommended downloads" box. You'll get the zip file that you want. My Avast keeps blocking the site/file so I just disabled. After download I checked using VirusTotal and comes up clean.

billon on 2017-04-06 10:17

If you want load/save WebP under XP, DL v.0.5.0 -
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/index.html

Pendrive on 2022-10-08 10:28

Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 4.0

Oct 2, 2022

Greenfish Icon Editor Pro (GFIE Pro) is a powerful FREEWARE image editor, especially suitable for creating icons, cursors, animations and icon libraries.

Latest stable release (4.0):
Windows 64-bit (installer)
Requires Windows 7 or newer
Windows 64-bit (portable version)
Requires Windows 7 or newer

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Open Hardware Monitor v0.9.6 Beta

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Dec 2020
  • Suggested by lwc

Open Hardware Monitor tracks the temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your computer.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Dependencies: .NET Framework 4.5 or later
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package.
  2. Extract to a folder of your choice.
  3. Launch OpenHardwareMonitor.exe.

InstalledAppView v1.07

Andrew Lee on 19 Apr 2023
  • 139KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Apr 2023
  • Suggested by Special

InstalledAppView displays the details of apps installed on your system, remote computer on your network, or from external disk plugged to your computer. For every app, the program name, version, registry name/modified time, installation folder, install folder owner, and uninstall command are all visible.

The program allows viewing of the XML files (AppxManifest.xml and AppxBlockMap.xml) and can uninstall apps, run quiet uninstalls (no user intervention), open the install folder of the app, and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch InstalledAppView.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: UninstallView
What's new?
  • Fixed a few high DPI mode issues.
  • Added 'Sort By' toolbar button.
Latest comments
juverax on 2020-10-18 13:20

InstalledAppView v.1.01 displays ONLY the details Microsoft Apps.

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Ditto v3.24.246.0

Ennovy on 16 Apr 2023
  • 37MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Apr 2023
  • Suggested by tmaibaum

Ditto is a feature-rich, customizable extension to the standard copy-paste mechanism. The program saves each copied item to a dynamic list, allowing access to anything copied or cut. You can save any type of information that can be put on the standard Windows clipboard and preview in before pasting.

Additionally, the program can communicate with other computers over a network to keep clipboards in sync.

Alternatively, Ditto Portable is also available in the PortableApps format.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Ditto.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: ArsClip, CLCL, Clibor, Clipdiary
What's new? See: https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/changeHistory.php
Latest comments
RainrooM on 2017-02-05 10:21

under Option - Quick paste. There you can change to another theme which comes with the program.
However to create your own looks/theme, you can go to the folder Ditto\Themes\ You'll find some xml files. Each of them is 1 theme. In there you can change the value and select which colars. You'll need to play a bit around till it looks they way you want it to be. Give it a new xml name and then in the Ditto program select this one as Theme as described above.

smaragdus on 2017-02-05 17:32

@RainrooM
Thank you again for the detailed information you provided! Somehow I failed to notice "Theme" menu in "Quick Paste".
Do you know whether the old themes packed with Ditto version 3.21.50.0 are compatible with Ditto version 3.21.134.0?

Prompt24 on 2018-12-25 13:26

The best one ever!!! Thanks a lot

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WinNMP v21.10

lwc on 15 Apr 2023
  • 426MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Oct 2021
  • Suggested by lwc

WinNMP (formerly WTServer and prior to that WT-NMP) is an open source free WNMP (a variation of WAMP). That is, a Windows package with Nginx, MariaDB/MongoDB and PHP-CGI (and also Redis) server stack for Windows.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract: The installer, which was created in Inno Setup, tries to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable without asking and even if you already have it.
However, it also executes some needed stuff (e.g. customizing the database).
So download the installer and install it to the default folder. Copy all files to a folder of your choice. Uninstall the application. Launch WinNMP.exe.

If you don't want it to install MVC, then:
  1. Run the installer within a sandbox like in Sandboxie Plus/Classic.
  2. Keep clicking Cancel when it tries installing MVC.
  3. Move the resulting files to a folder of your choice outside the sandbox.
  4. Delete the sandbox.
Similar/alternative apps: XAMPP
What's new? See https://winnmp.wtriple.com/changelog
Latest comments
lwc on 2016-01-17 21:31

There are no official System Requirements, so I just wrote those tested by myself.

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SQLiteStudio v3.4.4

Stephen Leibowitz on 7 Apr 2023
  • 67MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Apr 2023
  • Suggested by Userfriendly

SQLiteStudio is desktop application to create, edit, and browse SQLite databases. Some of its features are:

  • Encryption
  • Scripting with JavaScript, Python, and Tcl
  • Importing/exporting for various formats
  • Cross-platform—Windows, MacOS, and Linux
  • Data population for testing with pre-generated data

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download a Windows Portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Create a subfolder named sqlitestudio-cfg in the folder created in step 1.
  3. Launch SQLiteStudio.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: SQLiteSpy
What's new? ChangeLog

Pidgin Portable v2.14.12

webfork on 6 Apr 2023
  • 56MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by USB_Kx

Pidgin Portable is a Pidgin version made by PortableApps.com. Pidgin is an easy-to-use multi-protocol instant messaging client with a tabbed interface, customizable sounds, themes and more. Supports a long list of networks including Jabber/XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MicroFocus GroupWise Messenger, SILC, and more. It also includes support for many features such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, emoticons and typing notifications.

Plugins are also available to add more features including more networks, security, interface tweaks, and more. Themes are available via an additional download.

Pidgin is cross-platform with clients available for Mac OS and Linux; it supports 80+ world languages.

Other portable versions (note that these are oudated and may not function):

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PidginPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: MirdandaNG, InstantBird
What's new? See:https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/file/release-2.x.y/ChangeLog.
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2016-01-04 20:52

I usually never complain when there is a way to make a program portable but I have just wasted about half an hour updating (copying, moving, deleting, renaming) the native compressed version of Pidgin. And I forgot that the working Facebook plug-in was not included in the package and had to download it separately (but before that I deleted the "unknown" Facebook profile). Why do the developers still keep the no longer working Facebook-XMPP plug-in and do not adopt the working Facebook Chat (purple-facebook) plug-in is a mystery to me. Pidgin developers offer an offline installer (containing GTK+) and GTK+ for Windows yet they do not intend to provide a compressed portable-ready version for Windows. Updating Pidgin is a pain, as it is a pain to make it portable on first run.

MIKLO on 2016-06-30 14:41

WOW I find this really interesting that this software has been being downloaded or at least talked about for 9 years. Some of the first comments talk about this being worthless and a waste of time cuz Pidgin already has a Portable version. There is also talk about Haller wasting his time doing this... hmmm so what am I doing here also wasting my time? lol Anyway in my opinion any and all discussion even on so called "worthless" builds serve a purpose. If nothing else I get a link in my email letting me know that there is something I can go see and waste my time on some "worthless" and not needed software. Aint life great?
MIKLO

Midas on 2016-07-01 11:04

@MIKLO: It sure is. Thanks for wasting my time... 3:)

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Stickies v10.1d

Ennovy on 4 Apr 2023

Stickies work like customizable post-it notes with available styles, fonts, colors and buttons. Notes can be resized or snapped to the edges of other notes to keep them lined up. They can also act as reminders when hidden for a period, until a specified date and time, even upon waking every day, week, or month.

Alternatively, Stickies Portable is available.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder
  2. Copy folder Stickies to your preferred place
  3. Uninstall the program
  4. Create 2 empty files called stickies.ini and stickies.db in the application folder
  5. Launch stickies.exe
Similar/alternative apps: 7 Sticky Notes, Stickypaper
What's new? See: https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/versions.html
Latest comments
pipperu on 2019-12-26 19:00

In order to use old version notes with the new 10.0a version you hve to UPGRADE from old version to the new 10.0a. You can NOT restore the working folder from a backup because v10.0a uses SQLITE.

Pendrive on 2022-03-25 15:30

I'm not convinced that the following instructions are sufficient:
How to extract:
1 Download the installer and install to the default folder.
2 Copy folder Stickies to your preferred place.
3 Uninstall the program.
4 Create an empty file called stickies.ini in the application folder.
5 Launch stickies.exe.

I think 4 should be:
4 Create two empty files called stickies.ini and stickies.db in the application folder.

Andrew Lee on 2022-03-26 06:54

@Pendrive: Thanks! I have verified your correction and updated the database entry.

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FolderChangesView v2.35

Andrew Lee on 31 Mar 2023
  • 139KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by lautrepay

FolderChangesView monitors the folder, disk drive, or even remote network share to see every file that is being modified, created, or deleted. Requires read permissions to the selected drive/folder.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FolderChangesView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Black Background' option (Under the View menu). When it's turned on, the main table is displayed in black background and white text, instead of default system colors.
  • Added option to change the sorting column from the menu (View -> Sort By). Like the column header click sorting, if you click again the same sorting menu item, it'll switch between ascending and descending order. Also, if you hold down the shift key while choosing the sort menu item, you'll get a secondary sorting.
  • Added 'Sort By' dropdown to the toolbar.
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
Latest comments
rodger123 on 2012-09-23 01:17

Crashes and locks up My PC in every version I have tried.

Sinchu on 2016-12-03 02:34

Just another great program from Nirsoft..very handy.

Specular on 2019-08-27 09:52

Particularly useful since it keeps a log in the main window of files that get deleted immediately following creation, which allows one to see more of what is occurring than merely looking at files that have remained searchable on the disk.

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Directory Monitor v2.15.0.6

lwc on 25 Mar 2023
  • 39MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Directory Monitor enables real-time monitoring for new files/folders or changes. The program can monitor unlimited directories and network shares, as well as filter results and execute a program/script at a given event. The program can log all changes and allows notifications via balloon messages or taskbar animation.

Supports relative folder locations. A pro version (see comparison) is available with additional features.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Liteware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DirectoryMonitor.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: FolderChangesView
What's new? https://directorymonitor.com/download/ChangeLog.txt

PopMan v1.3.18

Ennovy on 24 Mar 2023
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by Darren Blake

PopMan is an email management tool that notifies of new mail and previews received mail on your server. Unwanted mail can be deleted directly from the server without having download them.

The program includes rules and blacklists to manage email and supports both POP3 and IMAP4 protocols.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PopMan.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary languages and themes.
Similar/alternative apps: nPOP, nPOPuk, POP Peeper
What's new? See: http://ch-software.de/popman/changelog1.3.htm
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2016-03-09 15:10

@Kea: added Win10 to system requirements. Tested in Windows 10 and works fine!

smaragdus on 2016-03-09 21:31

PopMan is great but unfortunately it seems to be abandoned. There is one thing I don't like about it- PopMan doesn't support Unicode.

JudyGarland on 2018-11-04 15:31

- is not a valid win32 application

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MACAddressView v1.48

Andrew Lee on 21 Mar 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by guinness

MACAddressView is a MAC address lookup tool that allows you to easily find the company details (company name, address and country) according to the MAC address of a product. The program also allows you to find MAC address records according to the company name, company address, or country name.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch MACAddressView.exe
  3. Optionally, download oui.txt to the same folder to get the latest MAC address by vendor lookup database
What's new?
  • Updated the internal MAC Addresses database.

MultiMonitorTool v2.10

Andrew Lee on 17 Mar 2023
  • 278KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by Checker

MultiMonitorTool allows a variety of monitor setting tweaks including disable/enable monitors, set primary monitor, save/load all monitors configs and move windows from one monitor to another. The program also provides a preview window, which allows you to view a preview of all attached monitors.

Command-line features are available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MultiMonitorTool.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Short Monitor ID' column. You can use the value displayed in this column in all command-line options.
  • Added 'Use Short Monitor ID as Name' to the 'Copy /SetMonitors Command Mode' option.
Latest comments
fpelletier on 2012-07-18 15:32

As I use the rotate monitor multiple times a day, it would be great to control monitor rotation too.

fpelletier on 2012-07-18 15:37

Without playing with it, it seems to me that if I take the time to do the math, that the Left-Top and Right-Bottom field values will control rotation, however, it is currently a bit cumbersome. If there were a toolbar button for clockwise and another for counter-clockwise, that would be great. Oh, BTW, great tool!

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PSPad v5.0.7 Updated

juverax on 6 Feb 2024
  • 15MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

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

Category:
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:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete pspshellx32.dll, pspshellx64.dll and unnecessary language files
  3. Download dictionaries for spell-check (optional) and unpack to .\PSPad\Spell\ folder
  4. Launch PSPad.exe
What's new? See: https://www.pspad.com/en/whatsnew.htm
Latest comments
Shadeclan on 2012-09-14 13:59

I figured out how to uninstall the user-chosen (custom) languages but it takes a little work.
1: Open PSPad.ini (if you opened it with PSPad or if PSPad is running, save it as something else).
2: Delete the UserHighLighterName# value / data pair where the language is listed (the crosshatch is either null or a number between 1 and 4).
3: Delete the language key and all value / data pairs appertaining to it.
4: If PSPad is running, close it - then replace the PSPad.ini file with your changes. Voila! Your user-selected language slot is ready for another language!
I have posted a request to add a mechanism to do this automatically on the PSPad forum which is very active and the author of the software posts often - not what you'd expect from "dead" software.
BTW: Be cautious about using the installer - it seems to have had some problems. Use the zip file instead and unpack the files to a folder of your choice.

Shadeclan on 2012-09-14 14:46

If it's ok, I'd just like to make a few more comments:
Viniciusban writes that PSPad has no comment-out tool. I don't know if that was true when he posted, but it has one now:
Format menu / Add/Remove Comment.

Webfork writes that it has trouble handling Very Large Files (VLF). In my experience, there are only a very few editors that can handle VLFs without absorbing all available RAM and none of them (with the possible exception of UltraEdit) is as full-featured as PSPad IMHO. If I must view / edit a VLF, I always use HiEditor from WinASM.net as it is made specifically to work on VLFs without hosing the computer. Unfortunately, it isn't offered on PortableFreeware.com but it is completely portable, writes all settings to an INI file and is very fast.

Tom mentions that the "stable" version is 4.5.4. Currently it is 4.5.6 and was uploaded about 11 months ago. Beta version, available from the forum and updated August 2012, is very stable - if the latest version is wanted, grab it from there.

PSPad has its problems but they all do - that's why there isn't just a single text editor that everybody uses. While Notepad++ is (undeniably) the most popular text editor for programmers, I find its interface somewhat obscure and its learning curve a bit too steep to make it useful to me. PSPad's interface is much cleaner and simpler and, if I don't use it for months at a time, I can come back to it without worrying about relearning anything - that's why PSPad is my text editor of choice.

rbon on 2019-12-25 18:09

I wanted a paf version of PSPad and I tried the online installer version of @prapper which unfortunately does not work.
So in the discussion https://portableapps.com/comment/242253#comment-242253 I left a note (# 22).
Be careful: when you extract the installer you have to delete the folders:
- $ PLUGINSDIR
- 7zTemp
and copy the rest into .\PSPadPortable.
Then update to the latest portable version which must be unpacked in .\PSPadPortable\App\PSPad\

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fre:ac v1.1.7

Andrew Lee on 7 Mar 2023
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Healey

fre:ac (pronounced "freak") is a feature-rich audio tool set featuring audio encoding and conversion, CD ripper, playlist and metadata editor. The program supports most popular audio formats such as MP3, M4A, WMA, OGG and FLAC, as well as support for a long list of additional converters such as Quicktime and Shorten. For CDs, the program supports reliable conversion (CD Paranoia), online databases (CDDB/GNUdb) and CDText, automatically writing song information metadata. The program is optimized for multi-core systems, making conversions as fast as possible.

Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, FreeBSD). Available in many world languages. Alternatively, fre:ac Portable automatically adjusts paths.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 'freac.exe'. Optionally, delete unnecessary language and manual files, and 'translator.exe'.
Similar/alternative apps: CUETools, LameXP
What's new? See: https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/releases.
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2014-07-28 15:22

fre:ac 1.0.22 is out- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonkenc/files/

Checker on 2014-07-28 16:10

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

smaragdus on 2016-12-05 14:51

I prefer freac snapshots to freac stable because the snapshots support more encoders (including the best one- OptimFROG, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, etc).

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WizFile v3.09

Andrew Lee on 28 Feb 2023
  • 17MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by smaragdus

WizFile is a near-instant search utility for finding files and folders. Results can be sorted by name, size or date and file type (audio, video, image, compressed etc.). The program supports wildcards, AND/OR operations and much more.

The program rapidly searches NTFS-formatted drives using the Master File Table feature so it's ready for use very quickly after launch. The program also supports non-NTFS formatted drives and network shares (e.g. //servername/sharename), monitoring for file changes and making search results visible in real-time.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use/Donationware
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete unnecessary locales
  3. Launch WizFile.exe or WizFile64.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Everything, UltraSearch, SwiftSearch
What's new? See: https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/whats-new
Latest comments
Special on 2020-11-26 15:15

With v3.00, It now "phones home" even when check for updates are disabled, why? Previous versions did not "phone home" and my settings have not changed. So either this is a bug with the auto-update check or the dev have decided to start collecting user "telemetry" without user consent, nor any way to opt out of this. So stick with v2.06 if this bothers you.

Nh on 2021-01-08 03:25

There is still no simple thing - a type/extension column.

PAFuser on 2021-12-21 16:48

Now available under portableapps.com. But, had to change link to 3.07 from 4.07. Hopefully will be corrected soon. New listing is for 3.37 also an error.

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BeeBEEP v5.8.6

SYSTEM on 24 Feb 2023
  • 49MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by smaragdus

BeeBEEP is a customizable chat and file/folder sharing tool for individuals or groups inside your local area network such as an office, home, or internet cafe. Conversations are peer-to-peer (no server required), encrypted, and messages sent to offline users will be delivered when they come online. Features include screen and file sharing, spellcheck, individual and group chats, and you can easily send quick voice recordings and screenshots. The program can also be configured to function as a file servers, sharing multiple files and folders for download by other clients.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux, Mac and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package corresponding to your OS and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch beebeep.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Madhavan LAN Messenger, Fomine LAN Chat, Qualia LAN Messenger
What's new? BeeBEEP 5.8.6
  • Added new protocol to manage "sent messages" but never received.
  • Added "Enable visual notifications for chat window" option menu Settings - Notifications.
  • Added "Change emoticon size in chat" option in menu Settings - Chat.
  • Added button "To send text as Source CODE" in chat window.
  • Fixed a bug in connection to prevent PING before HELLO message.
  • Fixed a bug on using Message History with CTRL+Up / CTRL+Down.
  • Fixed a bug on "Raise chat window on new message".
  • Fixed a bug that did not allow messages to be displayed correctly between the dark theme and the default one.
  • Fixed a bug that prevent connection after SLEEP / SUSPEND mode.
  • Emoticons will no longer be displayed larger than their maximum size.
  • Important private messages now open the chat window.
  • Added "EnableReceivingHelpMessages" option in beebeep.rc file.
  • Added global shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+1 for PANIC BUTTON and HELP REQUEST automatic message.
  • Added room location in user VCard (useful also for help request).
  • If you right click on a url in a chat you can copy the url to the clipboard without having to select it.
  • Added shortcut with "Enter", "Return", "Space" keys to open chat if selected in list.
  • Added global shortcut CTRL+ALT+C to "Select first chat available", so you can navigate with arrows and open with return.
  • Added "file transfer completed" notification also per BeeBOX downloaded files.
  • Added option "MessageNotReceivedTimeout_ms" for internal use.
  • BeeBEEP is now minimized on tray if user close it by "red X" in the window (also if BeeBEEP is not connected).
  • Added "BackupFolderPath" option in beebeep.rc file.
  • Added "Delete unsent messages in chat" and "Delete unsent messages to user" option.
  • Fixed a QT bug that created network latency

ComicsViewer v4.04

Andrew Lee on 23 Feb 2023
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by Widya Santoso

ComicsViewer is an image viewer specially tailored to viewing scanned comics. The program can modify colors, contrast, and other elements on the fly and will rotates your view of images with your screen in portrait orientation. It has an available slide show,

The program can view most common graphics formats including Jpeg2000 and allows export to JPEG, BMP, and PNG. It is also able to directly display images stored in ZIP and RAR files (even with password protection).

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete ComicsViewer.dll and ComicsViewer_x64.dll
  3. Launch ComicsViewer.exe
What's new? See: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2335&p=103522#p103522
Latest comments
billon on 2016-09-14 20:45

New home page(?) - http://www.cnblogs.com/stronghorse/ and i can't find anything in there

Realist on 2016-10-07 09:34

Has nobody tried RoboReader.
Please give it a try.

juverax on 2020-09-04 15:44

The link to the file on Softpedia is old.
There is a more recent version: 3.20
Direct download link: http://download2270.mediafire.com/gfy12zjswhcg/mkpr0ds0zsc7u6j/ComicsViewer_eng.zip

This link was found thanks to a post by user TAIMAT https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=43221 ) ( https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=97726#p97726 )

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FilePro Build 350 Adware

Andrew Lee on 18 Feb 2023
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

FilePro is a powerful disk and file management utility. The program can generate disk treemaps for local or network volumes, search and locate files in treemaps by automatic zoom-in and positioning, and includes a directory analysis tools to compare files and/or directories and find duplicates. The program can save entire or partial volume snapshots, compares snapshots against current or past disk states, and examine changes by difference in size or percentage difference.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download and run the installer
  2. When prompted, choose Manual Installation and drag FilePro.exe to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch FilePro.exe
Similar/alternative apps: SpaceSniffer
What's new?
  • update: internal updates (ad-related)
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2016-02-16 17:12

Program has been renamed from FilePro to TreeMapFs

subfire.hu on 2017-05-16 07:33

@AndTheWolf thanks!

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Date Reminder v3.38

Andrew Lee on 18 Feb 2023
  • 264KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Date Reminder alerts you to both recurring and nonrecurring events, like birthdays, bills to pay, appointments etc. The reminders are listed in chronological order. Reminders can be marked "done", i.e. "dealt with". Past events will remain in the list until they are marked "done". An advance notice marker can be set a number of days before an event.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Reminder.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new?
  • Running multiple instances allowed if using individual data locations
  • Issues when starting "minimized" fixed
  • Issues with auto-start under Windows 7/64 fixed
  • Auto detect UTF-8 (INI file, data file)
  • Default advance notice: INI file, [Date] section, AdvanceDefault=(days)
  • PureBasic compiler 6.0
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-11-28 12:07

spicydog yeah I have also not been able to find a download link for any version of Datetrac
MIKLO

Cornflower on 2023-02-18 07:40

Not at version 3.38

2 new features

Running multiple instances allowed if using individual data locations
You can now set a default advance notice in the INI file.

Cornflower on 2023-03-03 05:49

If you downloaded version 3.38, the help files (reminder-en.chm) has just been updated as of 2023-02-23. It had not been when the version was released a month ago.

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WeatherMate v4.20

rbon on 5 Feb 2023
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

WeatherMate gives you instant access to current weather conditions and forecasts for tens of thousands of locations worldwide. The program includes a customizable interface, radar images, severe weather alerts, a variety of maps and can even speak the weather. Temperature can be displayed in Celsius or Fahrenheit and various weather forecast formats are available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WeatherMate4.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: sWeather
What's new? Bug fixes:
  • The current conditions could not be displayed on some PCs running Windows 7.
Latest comments
__philippe on 2016-03-21 11:20

WeatherMate v4.4 released as of 20-MAR-2106

Changelog: http://ravib.com/wm/relnotes.htm

PAFuser on 2018-03-27 20:31

Version 4.9 available on site.

__philippe on 2018-04-01 15:39

WeatherMate v4.10 released 31-MAR-2018

Changelog: http://ravib.com/wm/relnotes.htm

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Notepad3 v6.23.203.2 Updated

juverax on 6 Feb 2024
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by webfork

Notepad3 is an feature-rich, accessible replacement for the original Windows Notepad with a variety of text modification tools for both complex text edition and programmers. The program enables code folding, bracket matching, automatic indentation, word auto-completion, character encoding conversion, column selection, multiple undo or redo, and bookmarks.

The program also includes a regular expression-based find and replace individual files and batch operations. It supports filename and content searches with reports and many file filters.

The program is the unofficial successor to the Notepad2 program, built from its source code as well as Scintilla and MiniPath on code from metapath.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP packages {inside the ZIP} and extract x86 or x64 (for 64-bit OS) to a folder of your choice. Launch Notepad3.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad2, Ted Notepad
What's new? See: https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/update/
Latest comments
ripu on 2018-03-11 11:18

Is it stealth?

ripu on 2018-03-11 11:19

What are its advantages over Notepad2?

webfork on 2018-03-15 21:09

ripu: it has encryption+master password, more encoding options, more visual customizations, and lots of small updates/fixes. I haven't tested stealth status.

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KiTTY v0.76.1.3 Updated

Midas on 17 Apr 2024
  • 728KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Sep 2023
  • Suggested by rokth

KiTTY is a Telnet, SSH and Rlogin client forked from PuTTY. In addition to adding portability, it supports many new features, including session filters, automatic login, session icon, pre-defined saved command shortcuts, terminal protection feature, automatic login and ability to run commands on startup.

Interface improvements include transparency, roll-up and more.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download kitty_portable.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
What's new? Changes at https://github.com/cyd01/KiTTY/releases/.
Latest comments
Midas on 2015-11-15 20:39

@siegfried: I confirm your findings, even after adding a "configdir=" key with a relative path.

I'm not sure the program isn't portable like that, but it sure isn't stealth. In my defense, the method I mentioned was working in prior versions (see above). I posted the issue in KiTTY's forum: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?action=forum&id=0653 ... :(

BTW, this update (and the lack of changelog thereof) is probably caused by a version and code synch with PuTTY, which was prompted by a newly found vulnerability patch:

"2015-11-07 PuTTY 0.66 released, fixing a SECURITY HOLE
PuTTY 0.66, released today, fixes a security hole in 0.65 and before: vuln-ech-overflow."
See "Latest news" at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.

AdrianK_IT on 2020-05-19 07:37

I have been unable to upgrade Kitty since version 0.73.2.13, on W10 Pro 64-bit v1909. I get a 'This app can't run on your PC' error message. Anyone else having this issue?

AdrianK_IT on 2020-05-19 11:44

a. I have discovered there now is a version of Kitty v0.73.2.16 in Portable Apps format (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/kitty-portable) and
b. Bizarrely, it works perfectly!

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TeamViewer v15.38.3

freakazoid on 29 Jan 2023

TeamViewer is a screen sharing, remote control and collaboration tool connecting devices for troubleshooting, presentations or installations. Supports standard chat, high-quality voice and video, file transfer, whiteboard, session recording, remote printing, screen sharing and more. The program can work with paranoid firewalls, functions as a VPN between clients, will display quality based on connection speed and includes browser access.

Clients are also available for Mac, Linux, iOS, ChromeOS/Android and more with support for many world languages.

Alternatively, a PortableApps version is also available: TeamViewer Portable.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. 'HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\TeamViewer,' only on 64-bit versions of Windows.

TeamViewer10_Logfile.login \AppData\Roaming\TeamViewer
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TeamViewer.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language resources.
Similar/alternative apps: Skype Portable, Brosix
What's new? https://community.teamviewer.com/English/categories/change-logs-en
Latest comments
JohnTHaller on 2016-02-18 00:44

The publisher seems to have pulled the new release and is serving the 11.0.53254 release from December for both standard and portable downloads even though the main download page still shows 11.0.55321 as the current version.

JohnTHaller on 2016-02-18 17:49

And now it's updated.

dmiranda on 2020-12-18 00:39

Theoretically, 14.2 should work in XP, but it is hit and miss. The version that still works always is 13.13

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SeaMonkey, Portable Edition v2.53.15

freakazoid on 29 Jan 2023

SeaMonkey is a complete internet suite with web browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, easy HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools. The browser supports fine-grained controls over images, cookies and more on a per-site basis. Based on Netscape Communicator and then Mozilla Suite, this software bundle includes many technologies used in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and supports many of their add-ons.

SeaMonkey, Portable Edition is a version of the software from PortableApps.com and works automatically with web-based Java apps if their jPortable tool is present.

For those using Windows XP and Vista, the last supported version was 2.49.5.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SeaMonkeyPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Mozilla Firefox, Pale Moon Portable, Opera
What's new? See:
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.14/
Latest comments
Midas on 2020-10-21 14:38

For details on why Seamonkey Portable isn't being updated, please see https://portableapps.com/node/60496.

loin2kolpotoru on 2021-01-30 07:56

Entry should be updated Seamonkey is no longer compatible with XP

freakazoid on 2021-01-30 13:14

@loin2kolpotoru I've updated the compatibility field and added a note about last supported XP/Vista version.

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AlternateStreamView v1.58

Andrew Lee on 28 Jan 2023
  • 73KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by castman

AlternateStreamView lets you scan your NTFS drive and find all hidden alternate streams stored in the file system. After scanning and finding the alternate streams, you can extract these streams into the specified folder, delete unwanted streams, or save the streams list into text/html/csv/xml file.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AlternateStreamView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to stop the file system scan when you press the Esc key.
Latest comments
Checker on 2014-01-11 00:40

@ vmars316: Alternate (Data) Streams are a data structure for holding additional structured data within a file in addition to the main data.
The Windows NTFS file system allows so-called Alternate Data Streams (ADS). With this function, data can be stored invisibly tied by the user to a file.

goodsignal on 2016-10-17 17:54

Dropbox had a bug a while back (https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/com-dropbox-attributes/m-p/63351) and polluted every file with an alternate data stream. Any copy action thereafter from our NTFS drive to a thumb drive (usually FAT32) was interrupted by a warning, "Are you sure you want to copy this file without its properties?" Very annoying! AlternateStreamView quickly and easily fixes the problem, as discovered here (http://superuser.com/questions/814312/is-it-possible-to-remove-the-are-you-sure-you-want-to-copy-this-file-without-it)

MIKLO on 2017-08-25 14:21

I thought streams were small bodies of water that flow through the forest, sorry couldn't resist :) This really software really is helpful in finding and seeing data that was cleverly concealed until using this. Thanks for some helpful software another hit from Nirsoft, keep em coming please.
MIKLO

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IMPasswordDecryptor v2.1

lwc on 27 Jan 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Dec 2010
  • Suggested by guinness

IMPasswordDecryptor is able to instantly recover stored passwords from most popular instant messengers. Functional on Google Talk, MSN Messenger, AIM, Digsby, Trillian, Pidgin, Miranda, Mebo, and more.

Note:

  • The program only works if the user opts to save or remember the password so that the username and password are stored on the system. Rest assured though most messengers have an auto-login feature that requires the user account information including the saved password for subsequent logins.
  • The program later (in v3.0) changed its name to Messenger Password Decryptor), but the main website download link has switched to an encrypted installer instead of a ZIP there, thus linking to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch IMPasswordDecryptor.exe.
What's new? See here
Latest comments
eve isk on 2011-05-18 06:39

Most of the messengers have the auto-login feature which requires the user account information including password to be saved for subsequent logins. If user opts to save or remember the password then the username and password are stored on the system in proprietary format.

Emka on 2013-12-16 14:56

v6.5 out, still portable?

Emka on 2014-12-06 14:21

v7.0 out

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Back4Sure v3.7.8

Ennovy on 19 Jan 2023
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of various compression levels, as well as encrypted for security.

Other features include filters to backup or exclude specific file types, a cleanup mode to remove old archives, and creation of one or multiple zip files (separated by directory structure). Backups are saved by directory structure either inside the archive or inside the directory for easy restoring. Users can also use multiple settings profiles, or "job" files.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Back4Sure.exe.
What's new? See: https://ukrebs-software.de/english/back4sure/changelog.html
Latest comments
ihateyou on 2013-12-15 18:36

what you should know:
Cleanup is optional - it is very close related to an incremental backup.
Using this you have to select the same Target Directory as before to backup only changed files and to delete files on the backup that have been deleted on the original file system as well (the latter one is the actual Cleanup).

Hope it helps ;)

romulous on 2015-01-11 06:52

It's a crying shame that you can only backup folders with this tool, and not individual files within those folders (yes, I know you can set filters, but unless you know in advance what files you want from each folder, this is not practical to use).

hamasaki on 2023-01-18 21:45

Now at v3.7.8

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Hashing v3.6

rbon on 6 Jan 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by smaragdus

Hashing is a tool for creating unique hash values to identify and examine files. This allows verification, duplication analysis, and can be used for file security (via the VirusTotal service). The program supports UPPER/lower case, drag and drop, batch processing and file export for later verification.

Available hashes include commonly-used algorithms CRC32, MD5, SHA1/256/384/512 and RIPEMD160.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download Hashing-X.X.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
Similar/alternative apps: RapidCRC Unicode

Executor v1.0.11

Ennovy on 10 Jan 2023
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Executor is a program launcher and functions as a very customizable replacement for the Windows "Run" tool. It supports themes, user-defined keywords, hotkeys for apps, auto-completion for keywords/file system/history, optional Vista-like results list, integrated calculator, and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: MIT
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty text file in the same folder and rename it executor.ini
  3. Launch Executor.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Keypirinha
What's new? See: https://executor.dk/vhistory
Latest comments
Carl on 2015-08-16 11:30

Nevermind, I was not waiting long enough for the indexing to finish. It seems a bit longer with windows 10. Last 64 bits version work fine.

freakazoid on 2018-07-28 02:05

Yay, first official update in five years! Still my favorite launcher!

Carl on 2020-09-08 18:31

The best launcher ever. I've been using this for 10 years.

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Beeftext v16.0

rbon on 31 Dec 2022
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 31 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

Beeftext is a text substitution tool that automates the entry of frequently-used text, functional in any application that supports copy/paste. Text automation is achieved via "combos," or a text snippet substituted via a user defined keyword that serves as a trigger for the snippet. These combos can be organized into groups or individually disabled.

Additional features include playing a sound on execution, automatic backup, export and import, pause, tray control and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT
How to extract: Download the "PortableEdition" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Beeftext.exe. For Windows 7/8/8.1 or 10 32-bit, download version 11.1.
Similar/alternative apps: Lintalist, PhraseExpress, Texter, TyperTask
What's new?
  • Added list of excluded applications where Beeftext will not perform substitution (issue #429).
  • Restored the default list of sensitive applications (issue #494).
  • Fixed week number substitution in dateTime variable (issue #514).
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hamasaki on 2018-05-06 23:25

Love this software. Was previously using Typertask, but this is much better.

stisev on 2019-09-07 20:38

Doesnt work in Citrix. This is a huge dealbreaker

Pendrive on 2022-11-02 14:50

"Runs on: Win7 / Win8 / Win10": it does not. I could not get any of the versions from 12 to 14 to run on my Windows-8 laptop.

Today, I came across this note:
"Beeftext uses the Qt framework that drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 with the release of Qt 6. Beeftext 11.1 is the last version to run on Windows 7 and Windows 8 (all variants)."
https://github.com/xmichelo/Beeftext/wiki/Older-versions

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ServiWin v1.72

Andrew Lee on 29 Dec 2022
  • 80KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

ServiWin utility displays and provides access to controls for a list of installed drivers and services on your system. For some, a variety of information is displayed such as file description, version, product name, company that created the driver file and more. The program allows the stop, start, restart, pause and continue function of a service or driver, as well as changing the startup type of service or driver (automatic, manual, disabled, boot or system).

A list of services and drivers can be saved to file or a view HTML report of installed services/drivers can be opened in your default browser.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch serviwin.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed issue: ServiWin truncated the service name and display name with more than 64 characters.
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navi on 2010-10-29 23:32

this should be great!..

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SSuite CleverNote PIM v2.6.2.2

Ennovy on 29 Dec 2022
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Dec 2017
  • Suggested by NunoSilva

SSuite CleverNote PIM is a comprehensive application that includes an intuitive working environment for managing notes, ideas, lists and events into one place.
Available Features:

  • A To-Do list for everyday tasks, chores, and activities
  • An address book to keep all your contacts in one place
  • A very useful calendar diary to view all your appointments in
  • A personal finance manager to keep you economically viable
  • A travel expenses record keeper with custom reporting for people on the move
  • A briefcase container to keep all your personal documents with you at all times
  • A notebook editor for reminders, personal notes, and short articles clipped from the web.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 CleverNote.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: EssentialPIM Free, MSD Organizer Freeware
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FileHandler on 2022-12-29 01:56

Was unable to download it.
Apparently, a known problem with Cloudflare. The following instructions did not solve the error, but maybe it will help others:
https://appuals.com/cloudflare-error-1020-access-denied/

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RekSFV v1.8.7

webfork on 25 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

RekSFV is a checksum generator and verifier that can evaluate files and whole directories. When scanning, the program checks for all supported files and verifies any found checksums. The program supports drag and drop, stay-on-top, minimize to tray, shortcut keys, multiple instances, sound notification and more.

The program supports several hashing algorithms including SFV, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the "exe bundle" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RekSFV.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: MultiHasher, RapidCRC Unicode

Image Uploader v1.3.3

webfork on 25 Dec 2022
  • 37MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

Image Uploader is a feature-rich tool for file upload (images and otherwise), link shortening, screen capture / annotation and extracting video frames. The program enables the quick upload of various files to many different hosting services without using their respective website interface via drag-and-drop, clipboard uploads, or those taken from the included screenshot tool.

Screenshots can be annotated on the screen while highlighted and the program can do full screen, active window, freehand, selected, area etc. as well as extract frames from video files. Includes batch uploads, hotkeys, watermarks, image text and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Apache License 2.0
How to extract: Download the "portable" 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Image Uploader.exe.

Note that context menu options are not portable.
Similar/alternative apps: MyImgur
What's new? See:
https://github.com/zenden2k/image-uploader/blob/master/changelog.txt
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webfork on 2016-05-03 21:30

Although it's an image uploader with a lot of capability, I was actually most impressed by the included screen capture system. The super easy annotation and batch uploads may completely change how I do screen captures.

smaragdus on 2016-11-22 05:48

@billon
What a bad news! Where did you get these rumours from? I hope the rumours are not true.

Loonier on 2018-12-10 16:33

For some reason 'Windows Defender smartscreen filter' blocks the download ...

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PropertySystemView v1.20

Andrew Lee on 24 Dec 2022
  • 139KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by Special

PropertySystemView allows you view and modify the properties of file from GUI and command-line, using the property system of Windows operating system. For example, you can change the 'Media Created' timestamp stored in .mp4 files (System.Media.DateEncoded) as well as other metadata stored in media files and office documents, like Title, Comments, Authors, Tags, Date Acquired, Last Saved Date, Content Created Date, Date Imported, Date Taken (EXIF of .jpg files), and more.

PropertySystemView also allows you to set properties of Windows. For example, you can set the System.AppUserModel.ID property of a window in order to disable the taskbar grouping of the specified window.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 PropertySystemView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added /CopyProperty command-line option, which allows you to copy a value of one property into another property.
  • For example, this command will copy the value of System.DateModified property into the System.Media.DateEncoded property:
  • PropertySystemView.exe /CopyProperty "C:\temp\1.mp4" System.DateModified System.Media.DateEncoded

Disk Digger v1.67.37.3271

lwc on 24 Dec 2022
  • 571KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

DiskDigger recovers files from any type of media that your computer can read. such as USB flash drives, memory cards and hard disk drives. The types of files supported include BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DOC, PDF, MP3, AVI, WMV, OGG etc. DiskDigger is not a generic undelete utility. It works by scanning through each sector of the media and looking for "signatures" of the various file types. As such, it may be able to recover certain files that other generic undelete utilities are unable to.

Note: the current version is a nagware (unlimited though), but the originally completely freeware version wasn't updated since 2012 (v0.8.3) - if needed, it can be downloaded from the original website

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: .NET, Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No. Writes to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Defiant Technologies
License: Free (nagware) for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskDigger.exe.
What's new? https://diskdigger.org
Latest comments
Alex Woodby on 2010-06-08 16:29

NO longer freeware, but shareware.

Andrew Lee on 2010-06-18 23:55

These additional download links are contributed by donald:
1) http://majorgeeks.com/DiskDigger_d5976.html (don't pick authors site)
2) http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page40.html#DiskDigger
3) http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=47821 (pick server 2)

webfork on 2010-08-12 21:18

This software is rated highly by NoNags editorial staff. Given the number of data recovery apps here on the site, its nice to have a recommendation. http://www.nonags.com/freeware-diskdigger_3697.html

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R-Undelete Home v6.7.180011

lwc on 24 Dec 2022
  • 57MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by pplknownothin

R-Undelete recovers files from external USB disks, digital photo and video camera memory cards and other devices with the FAT (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and exFAT) file system. In addition, it also uses the scan for known file types, which makes R-Undelete an ideal solution for the recovery of lost digital photos, movies and music.

Note: the majority of Windows storage solutions use NTFS and ReFS, which can only be recovered with the pro version.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the installer and select "portable USB option" while installing. Launch r-undelete.exe.
What's new? See:
https://forum.r-tt.com/viewtopic.php?t=8140
Latest comments
AyrA on 2017-11-17 06:55

From their website: R-Undelete run in the free Home mode has no limitations for recovery from FAT partitions and also allows you to evaluate how the software recovers lost files from the NTFS file system, for which it has a limitation to recover files larger than 64KB. [filelist] can be previewed to estimate recovery chances before you upgrade the Home version for recovery from NTFS partitions

Seems that recovery from NTFS costs money and thus makes this application almost useless today.

Happy.Camper2 on 2018-04-21 01:47

I finally said to myself "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuh" ;)
Why am I wasting my time with downloading this app realising that this app is useless from a freeware point of view.
My above comment on 2017-08-25 20:17--that version never got
downloaded & I have ceased wasting my time.
I don't know for a fact that this app has always been so restrictive because I came in late on finding this app.
Perhaps if there's an earlier version for Vista that someone knows about, thats less restrictive, maybe you could share that with us.
Have a nice weekend everyone.

Guido76 on 2018-06-28 02:26

I agree Happy.Camper2's comment.
This software have a huge limitation as a freeware, and it is a wasting time to try it.
Please, stop to promote this apps !

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NTFS Undelete v3.0.20.1104

lwc on 24 Dec 2022
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Nov 2020
  • Suggested by AlephX

NTFS Undelete is a straightforward tool that allows you to recover deleted files. It recovers files directly from hard drive, bypassing the Recycle Bin.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Dependencies: MSVCR71.DLL and MSVCP71.DLL
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NTFSUndelete.exe.
What's new? https://www.ntfsundelete.com/release.php
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I am Baas on 2012-06-24 05:30

@Midas

There is one now.

Midas on 2012-06-25 14:42

Thanks for that, I am Baas.

smaragdus on 2013-12-15 21:24

'About' says it's NTFS Undelete 0.93.

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Uniform Server v15.0.1

lwc on 24 Dec 2022
  • 163MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by Andy Finney

The Uniform Server is a complete web development system containing Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, phpMyAdmin and more. Additional plugins on the website will extend the system with FTP server and Java servlet support.

Note: One useful function of this program used to be the Wiki on a stick, but it eventually became outdated.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: FreeBSD
How to extract:
  1. Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder with no spaces in the filepath (e.g. C:\portable and not C:\portable apps)
  2. Launch UniController.exe
  3. Configure the various settings, then start the server by clicking on the "Start Apache" and "Start MySQL" buttons
Similar/alternative apps: XAMPP
What's new? See:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/miniserver/files/
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hamasaki on 2017-04-08 08:22

Is this project still active? There hasn`t been any updates for awhile. Nothing for the last 2 PHP7 branches. Last update was January.

hamasaki on 2019-08-12 14:12

Good to see an update, but Uwamp better:
https://www.uwamp.com/en/

hamasaki on 2019-08-12 14:14

The last link is a 404 because this site removes the trailing slash. Add the trailing slash to the url.

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SQLiteSpy v1.9.16

lwc on 22 Dec 2022
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by MarcoNovaro

SQLiteSpy is a fast and compact database manager for SQLite. It reads SQLite 3 files and executes SQL against them with a graphical user interface that makes it very easy to explore, analyze and manipulate those databases.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SQLiteSpy.exe.
What's new? Full changelog at https://yunqa.de/delphi/apps/sqlitespy/history.
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bro on 2012-01-26 19:32

@ReDeX I've tried SQLite Administrator for a few minutes... It comes in a zip file with needed sqlite dlls and it has no settings except language so it could be used from a USB drive. But it's not stealth, it registers itself to open .sdb files and a few others. It also has no unicode support as I can see. I couldn't find out where he stores language option setting... In trying to find that out, I have only found out that it doesn't work at all on my second computer... Don't know why though, I have genuine xp sp3 on that computer...

bro on 2012-02-08 13:49

Sorry about the off topic again...
I found out where SQLite Administrator saves settings (in %APPDATA% by default), but it checks for sqliteadmin.ini in application directory first.

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Pixia v6.61

Andrew Lee on 19 Dec 2022
  • 16MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Pixia is a powerful raster graphics editor with a unique user interface. It includes various photo filters, brushes, layers, text and broad file format support. Note that the program has a fairly unique interface so, when learning Pixia, it's easier to discard everything you know about other editors like Photoshop or Paintshop and start from scratch with the tutorials and help files.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder
  2. Optionally, download and install help files and additional filters
  3. Copy all files to a folder of your choice
  4. Uninstall the program
  5. Launch pixia.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Artweaver Free
What's new? See: https://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/history.html
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webfork on 2013-02-10 20:55

Checker: a portable version of Paint.net is available, but untested and not something I would use: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=61988#p61988

Fixitman on 2013-11-01 23:15

Webfork is correct, there is a portable version. Worked fine for me on XP. I also like the knockoff of it called Pinta available for Linux. It's not full-featured yet, but it certainly works.
Off-topicP If you really want portable, put your favorite version of Linux including whatever programs you want on a USB stick and you've got an entire portable OS!

AndTheWolf on 2013-11-13 17:48

Download link still pointing to Pixia 6.00G rather than to 6.00H and gets a "not found" error.

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NetRouteView v1.40

Andrew Lee on 13 Dec 2022
  • 66KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

NetRouteView is a graphical alternative to Windows' standard command-line route utility route.exe. The program displays the list of all routes on your current network, including the destination, mask, gateway, interface IP address, metric value, type, protocol, age (in seconds), interface name, and the MAC address. NetRouteView also allows you to easily add new routes, as well as to remove or modify existing static routes.

NOTE: IPv6 not currently supported.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NetRouteView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added new columns: Interface Guid, Interface Index, Connection Name.
  • Added 'Copy As Route Command' option, which copies to the clipboard the selected routes in the format of 'route add' command.

ChromePass v1.58

Andrew Lee on 13 Dec 2022
  • 269KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

ChromePass is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Chromium-based Web browsers. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password and Created Time.

You can select one or more items and then save them into text/html/xml file or copy them to the clipboard.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ChromePass.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: WebBrowserPassView
What's new?
  • Fixed to display the password if it's not encrypted (Like in the portable version of Brave).
Latest comments
GMan on 2014-12-06 23:30

Download URL should be: http://www.nirsoft.net/toolsdownload/chromepass.zip

obava on 2017-01-11 19:52

Great tool, but here is another one doing the same job:
URL: http://www.sterjosoft.com/chrome-passwords.html

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WebBrowserPassView v2.12

Andrew Lee on 11 Dec 2022
  • 607KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

WebBrowserPassView is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer, Firefox-based and Chromium-based Web browsers. This tool can be used to recover your lost/forgotten password of any website, including popular Web sites, like Facebook, Yahoo, Google, and GMail, as long as the password is stored by your Web Browser.

Currently, WebBrowserPassView cannot retrieve the passwords if they are encrypted with a master password.

To work with Chrome and Opera portable versions, go to 'options' and set the location of the portable browser folder. Select the user data folder in Chrome, and wand.dat for Opera. (Thanks to user "deer".)

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WebBrowserPassView.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PasswordFox, IE PassView, ChromePass, OperaPassView
What's new?
  • Fixed to display the password of Chromium-based Web browser if it's not encrypted (Like in the portable version of Brave).
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
Latest comments
chdchan on 2015-09-23 03:14

Portable browser e.g. Firefox's passwords can be viewed by manually setting Options->Advanced Options:
For example,
Firefox Profile=D:\Firefox\Data\profile
Firefox Installation=D:\Firefox\App\Firefox

Checker on 2015-12-30 17:50

@IanFromBarrie: Good spot!
@joby_toss: Thanks for correcting ;)

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ClamWin Portable v0.103.2.1 Rev 0.103.7

lwc on 15 Apr 2023

ClamWin is the Windows version of ClamAV, a virus and spyware scanner which database is constantly maintained by a group of volunteers and updates are always available for free. Note that the program does not contain an on-access real-time scanner; you must manually scan a file in order to detect malware or use a third party tool like the general purpose Directory Monitor (see Execute scripts/applications when events occur) or the outdated Clam Sentinel.

ClamWin Portable is a portable wrapper for ClamWin and can be modified to automatically update virus database periodically or during startup.

Alternatives:

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ClamWinPortable.exe.
What's new? See: https://www.clamwin.com/content/blogcategory/20/100/
Latest comments
JohnyZlo on 2015-03-01 11:04

ClamWin v0.98.6 released: http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/245/1/

This release updates ClamAV scanning engine to the latest version and brings following improvements:
* Bug fixes in detection of files produced by upx, upack and mew packagers
* Other bug fixes and feature improvements

Download the latest version here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/files/clamwin/0.98.6/

Midas on 2015-05-16 21:13

Please note that, for updating purposes, you needn't download the full 100MB+ ClamWin package.

Just go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/files/clamwin/, find the latest version folder and download the clamwin-0.9x.x-setup-nodb.exe, which is only about 8MB -- after (Uni)extracting, you'll find all the files you need for updating in the '{app}\bin' folder...

Midas on 2021-05-05 07:53

Long overdue update, IYAM -- it took tree years for ClamWin to be updated from v0.99.4.

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ConfigureDefender v3.1.1.1

lwc on 6 Dec 2022
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

ConfigureDefender is an interface for viewing and modifying various Windows Defender settings. Individual settings can be configured or you can select from one of three pre-defined protection levels: DEFAULT, HIGH, INTERACTIVE, and MAX. You can also block a variety of native Microsoft tools and reduce Defender resource usage on low-end systems.

Note that changing one of the protection levels requires a reboot in order to take effect.

Although you can make these changes yourself via the native group policy editor and Windows registry, this program collects them all in one place.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ConfigureDefender.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Firewall App Blocker

Emsisoft Emergency Kit v2022.12.0.11730

lwc on 6 Dec 2022
  • 452MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jan 2022
  • Suggested by joby_toss

Emsisoft Emergency Kit contains a collection of programs to scan for malware including viruses, worms, trojans, adware, keyloggers and more. The program also has cleaning tools and methods to remove stubborn leftovers created by malware.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice and execute. Launch Start Emergency Kit Scanner.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Spybot - Search & Destroy
Latest comments
ishldgetoutmore on 2016-03-18 18:23

Sophos detected Mal/EncPk-HL and blocked access to the website.

demon.devin on 2017-11-21 15:11

This version will leave trash behind in the registry and also leaves a Windows Service running. For a real stealth version of this application visit the thread I created for it here: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23624

Or visit the thread I started on PortableApps.com: https://portableapps.com/node/57116

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StreamArmor v4.1

lwc on 6 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Aug 2016
  • Suggested by guinness

StreamArmor is the sophisticated tool for discovering hidden alternate data streams (ADS) as well as clean them completely from the system. It's advanced auto analysis coupled with online threat verification mechanism makes it the best tool available in the market for eradicating the evil streams.

NOTE: The main website download link has switch to an encrypted installer. Linking to softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The portable version is in the "Portable Version" subfolder
  3. Launch StreamArmor.exe
What's new? See https://securityxploded.com/streamarmor.php#ReleaseHistory
Latest comments
Mike.S.G. on 2011-04-04 10:39

@Magibon:

My comment was a bit premature, I'm not sure why I worded it that way... Better said I suppose would have been - "someone may want to look into this more."

Emka on 2013-12-16 14:32

v2.5 out, still portable?

Emka on 2014-12-06 14:33

v3.0 out

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AutoIt v3.3.16.1 Updated

lwc on 24 Apr 2024
  • 29MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Klaatu

AutoIt is a BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks or perform user interface testing.

Users new to the program are encouraged to read an introduction (thanks guinness.)

Note: the outdated (from 2012) AutoIt Portable allows you to create a portable environment of SciTE4AutoIt3 and AutoIt together, as well as cleaning AppData and opening the program editor with sample scripts (also thanks to guinness).

A 64 bit version is available (within the folder).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Every time one compiles a script (at least through SciTE=>Tools=>Build) it creates the folder %LocalAppData%\AutoIt v3\ (specifically %LocalAppData%\AutoIt v3\Aut2exe) for temp files. But since the files are temporary (only existing during compilation) the folder is at least usually empty. See bug report. You might want to run SciTE through a Program Portabilizer set to delete the aforementioned folder upon exit.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Optionally download an enhanced version of the built-in editor.
  3. Uncompiled scripts can be:
    • Edited (and also launched) with SciTe\SciTE.exe ((32 bit while editing)
    • Directly launched via AutoIt3.exe or AutoIt3_x64.exe (for 64 bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: AutoHotkey
What's new? See: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/history.htm
Latest comments
Pendrive on 2022-03-08 18:20

v3.3.16.0

Pendrive on 2022-12-02 21:23

v3.3.16.1 released some time ago (19 September, 2022).

Mawg on 2023-10-17 09:26

I downloaded this and the linked portable SciTE4AutoIt3. I put the latter into a subdirectory of this (named SciTE4AutoIt3), and when I run `AutoIt3.exe HelloWorld.au3` from the AutoIt directory, I get a pop-up "It Appears AutoIt Portable was unable to load the SciTEGlobal.properties". How do I configure things?

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CLCL v2.1.3

Ennovy on 1 Dec 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Dec 2022
  • Suggested by Ezzetabi

CLCL is a clipboard caching utility that supports all clipboard formats, including bitmaps. It comes with a built-in viewer for examining clipboard contents and additional features via plugins, a number of which can be downloaded from the website.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package plus optionally additional plugins (formats and tools) and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Edit clcl_app.ini changing portable=0 to portable=1
  3. Launch CLCL.exe

When adding plugin DLLs, make sure you use relative paths (e.g. if you put tool_text.dll in a "Plugins" folder, use .\Plugins\tool_text.dll) to ensure maximum portability.
Similar/alternative apps: Ditto
What's new?
  • Enabled scrolling by mouse drag in image format (BITMAP, DIB).

See Japanese changelog here
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2015-09-26 23:24

After 10 years of inactivity, now the developer is releasing a version after version, nice ;)

lintalist on 2015-10-05 22:48

I like(d) CLCL a lot, but on Windows 8/64bit it has a bug for me. I'd set it up to show 19 items in the menu so that the letter 't' is the shortcut for templates menu, unfortunately it doesn't properly register the hotkey of the CLCL program I think because when I press alt-t in any program it always pops up an empty template menu (from CLCL) which shouldn't happen because it not a global hotkey.
Good alternative I found was ArsClip - http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=734 - and set it up as CLCL as close a possible. Still like CLCL though.

zorro on 2019-12-16 05:06

Unfortunately the new version 2.10 is not stealth any more - it creates a folder "CLCL" with settings and history in AppData. I tried entering the program path for "WorkDir" in the "general.ini", but the folder is still created. Reverting to version 1.12...

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NexusFont v2.7.1

Andrew Lee on 1 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Barrette

NexusFont Viewer is a font viewer and manager. You can view all installed fonts, check font details, activate/deactivate fonts, export a font as bitmap, and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch nexusfont.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files
Similar/alternative apps: FontViewOK
What's new?
  • Added "Delete" option in edit tag dialog.
  • Added tag filter options (Not Contains Any Tags, Not Contains All Tags)
Latest comments
xor on 2015-04-28 20:50

Likewise it's great to be here :)

smaragdus on 2015-11-08 20:48

I have downloaded the latest version(2.6.2.1870) yet NexusFont finds some ghost update.

Provy on 2017-03-13 15:15

Thanks for the .ini tip, Christian. Otherwise, the program does "call home" looking for updates.

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Diffinity v0.9.4

Andrew Lee on 1 Dec 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by billon

Diffinity is a text comparison and merging tool focused on source code differences. The program compares the contents of two text files and displays the differences by line as well as individually modified characters/words. The program supports folder comparison, drag and drop, a thumbnail view of all differences, instance and syntax highlighting, update as-you-type (live view), customisable interface, and more.

Displays differentiation between changed, removed and added lines. Auto-detects Unicode encoding.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
Stealth: ? No. Writes Diffinity.exe.log to AppData folder.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and using 7-Zip extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch Diffinity.exe
  3. Go to 'Preferences' and check 'Save settings file in application folder'
Optionally, delete uninstall.exe and $PLUGINSDIR
Similar/alternative apps: Text Compare, TextDiff, X-WinMerge
What's new? See: https://truehumandesign.se/s_diffinity.php#versionhistory
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2019-10-25 04:20

It does appear to be stealth? When I first ran it, it created a 'appData/Roaming/Diffinity/diffinity.cfg' file, but if you copy that file to the portable location, delete the appdata folder and run Diffinity again, the cfg file isn't created.

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WirelessConnectionInfo v1.17

Andrew Lee on 26 Nov 2022
  • 106KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

WirelessConnectionInfo displays general information and statistics about the active WiFi connection, including the SSID, BSSID, PHY Type, Signal Quality, Receiving rate, Transmission Rate, Authentication Algorithm, Channel Number, Total number of transmitted/received frames, and more...

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WirelessConnectionInfo.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).
  • Added 'Copy Value' option.
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2016-06-22 17:13

Very nice and way useful 4me... thanks for your hard work on this software.
MIKLO

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WinAudit v3.4.3

Andrew Lee on 24 Nov 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by Billy Run

WinAudit performs a rapid and exhaustive audit of installed software, license information, security configuration, hardware inventory, network settings etc. The report can be save in various formats (text, PDF, HTML etc.), sent via email or exported to a database via ODBC.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: EUPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinAudit.exe.
Latest comments
I am Baas on 2015-10-11 07:14

@ripu

Is it not?

ripu on 2015-10-13 10:15

When I posted that comment, the "Stealth:" information was missing. So I asked. Now it's been added.

AndTheWolf on 2022-11-24 12:44

Now at version 3.4.3

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Restart on Crash v1.6.4

Andrew Lee on 21 Nov 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

Restart on Crash is an monitoring tool that will watch the applications that you specify and automatically relaunch any program that hangs or crashes. You can add any number of applications to monitor, enable/disable them individually and edit the command line that will be used to restart an application.

Especially useful for unstable but critical programs.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RestartOnCrash.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Splat
What's new? See: https://w-shadow.com/blog/2009/03/04/restart-on-crash/
Latest comments
webfork on 2019-01-13 15:25

@AndTheWolf: updated, thanks for the notice and the link

AndTheWolf on 2022-11-21 13:40

Now at version 1.6.4

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OpenSaveFilesView v1.16

Andrew Lee on 15 Nov 2022
  • 109KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

OpenSaveFilesView displays the list of files that you previously opened with the standard Windows open/save dialog-box. The program shows a variety of details including filename, extension, order (the order that the files were opened for every file extension), open time (available only for the last opened file of every file type), file modified/created time, file size and file attributes.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 OpenSaveFilesView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added "Don't Load Icons" option. When it's turned on, OpenSaveFilesView doesn't load the icon of every filename.
  • Added command-line option to set the "Don't Load Icons" option:
  • OpenSaveFilesView.exe /DontLoadIcons 1
  • You should turn on the "Don't Load Icons" option if OpenSaveFilesView crashes with exception in combase.dll
Latest comments
DarkShadow on 2015-10-30 20:06

@billon: 32-bit download still gives you v1.07 !

Checker on 2015-10-30 20:09

@DarkShadow: That's why I presently didn't update to v1.08 ;)

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AutoText v8.0

agam on 13 Nov 2022
  • 306KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by agam

AutoText offers in a small tooltip window saved words, texts, phrases, snippets etc. during typing in any other program and will insert the selected item directly to the cursor position. In case of unsuccessful search, Space, Return, PgUp, PgDn etc. closes the small window, so that fast and liquid typing is not disturbed. Three different search methods can be set.

In addition AutoText monitors the clipboard and saves the last X text entries of the clipboard, which can then be retrieved as well.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AutoText.exe.
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2019-05-12 10:30

Download link is a 404

webfork on 2019-05-19 16:25

@hamasaki: just tested on my side and not seeing an error

bawldiggle on 2023-02-25 22:36

There are four auto-text tools called "AutoText" this one is by Persoft.
"Jitbit" and "Auto Text Software" also have there own "AutoText" apps. Then there is MS Words "AutoText" just to add to the mix.
Persoft home page is very minimalist. No dedicated home page. No documenation. No help, No contacts. No copyright declaration.

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FUPX v3.2

gbrao on 12 Nov 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by jack

FUPX (formerly Free UPX) allows you to compress or decompress EXE, DLL, OCX, BPL, CPL and other files. It offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without the need for accessing the command-line.

The program is an advanced interface for the UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables). It uses the Microsoft Portable Executable and COFF Specification.

Alternatively, FUPX Portable is in PortableApps.com Format and includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the app.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 fupx.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PortableApps AppCompactor
What's new? See:
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/free-upx/#changelog
Latest comments
__philippe on 2017-02-22 13:39

For the Facebook-allergic crowd, might as well use directly the original Command-Line UPX engine:

Terse CLI simplicity:

upx  -l sample1.exe  (Checking whether PE is packed with UPX)
upx -d sample1.exe  (Decompressing an UPX-packed PE)
upx     sample2.exe  (Compressing a plain PE)


UPX engine additional pointers:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=85420#p85420

gbrao on 2018-09-18 23:40

FUPX v2.5 seems to only support UPX 3.95 64-bit ( not 32-bit).

jack on 2018-09-19 12:51

@gbrao
There was an error in the script creating the distribution files. It was my mistake, not a deliberate act.
I uploaded the corrected file FUPX_PORTABLE.7z to the server and now everything should be OK.
Hint: To set the 32-bit version of UPX, click the "Options" button on the toolbar. Then, on the "UPX version" list, select "3.95 32-bit" and click "Close".
Sorry for the inconvenience.

@smaragdus
I removed the "Facebook" button from the toolbar.

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NetConnectChoose v1.10

Andrew Lee on 12 Nov 2022
  • 114KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

NetConnectChoose lets you choose the default Internet connection for a given application. This is useful for security/speed (like using wired instead of wireless), to prevent overload, or save high bandwidth only for critical applications. Note that each connection must come from a different network adapter.

The program also displays extensive information about every active network/Internet connection, including network adapter name, MAC Address, Name Servers, MTU, Interface Speed, current incoming/outgoing data speed, number of received/sent packets, received/sent bytes, and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
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 NetConnectChoose.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: In some network configurations, NetConnectChoose failed to set the default Internet connection.
  • Added 'Metric' column.

NTFSLinksView v1.33

Andrew Lee on 8 Nov 2022
  • 66KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

NTFSLinksView shows you a list of all symbolic links and junctions in the specified folder, and their target paths. Microsoft Windows uses symbolic links and junction points of NTFS file system in order to make changes in the folders structure of Windows and keep the compatibility of applications written for older versions (pre-Vista). The program is useful for both diagnosis around linking issues and developers seeking to use symbolic links in their tools.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NTFSLinksView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to stop the file system scan when you press the Esc key.

OutlookStatView v2.28

Andrew Lee on 6 Nov 2022
  • 129KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

OutlookStatView scans your Outlook mailbox and displays statistics about the users you communicate with. These insights can show who you spend the most time on, what times they are active, or if they are taking up a lot of inbox space.

Details for each user/email include the number of outgoing messages that you sent (separated by to/cc/bcc), the number of incoming messages, the total message size, and the client software. It also provides a time range that you send/received emails were sent or received.

A 64-bit version (only for use with Outlook 2010 64-bit) is available.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 OutlookStatView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to stop the Outlook mailbox scan when you press the Esc key.
Latest comments
webfork on 2014-08-02 02:03

Got some interesting data out of some of the analysis this program does. Glad to have it.

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MZCookiesView v1.60

Andrew Lee on 4 Nov 2022
  • 74KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Nov 2022
  • Suggested by ClausValca

MZCookiesView is an alternative to the standard cookie manager provided by Netscape and Mozilla browsers. It displays the details of all cookies stored inside the cookies file (cookies.txt or cookies.sqlite) in one table and allows you to save the cookies list into text, HTML or XML file, delete unwanted cookies and backup/restore the cookies file.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mzcv.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to keep the scroll position after refresh and after deleting cookies.
Latest comments
Shodan816 on 2011-03-01 06:34

Download working OK now.

fpb1386 on 2019-08-06 22:45

I want to downlaod this tool to check cookies

webfork on 2019-08-06 23:05

@fpb1386: if you're having download issues, please post in forums

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Easy RoboCopy v1.0.17

Andrew Lee on 31 Oct 2022
  • 466KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by c0d3br3ak

Easy RoboCopy is detailed copy manager with dozens of parameters to customize the copy process, such as filtering by name, attributes, synchronizing folders, etc. The program shows all available options in one form, along with descriptive names and tooltip help.

The program is an interface for the RoboCopy command-line application, available by default on Windows.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: The download file has three levels of ZIP or Exe files. 7-Zip and PeaZip can be used to drill down with little effort. These instructions do not assume that convenience:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a temporary folder.
  2. Extract from Robocopy v[version number] Setup.exe to a temporary folder.
  3. Extract from setup.zip to a folder of your choice. Optionally, omit unintsall.exe and uninstall.dat from the extraction.
  4. Launch EasyRoboCopy.exe
Windows XP users can download RoboCopy Version XP010 as a part of Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools.
Similar/alternative apps: XCOPY Frontend, FastCopy
What's new? See: http://tribblesoft.com/easy-robocopy/.
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hamasaki on 2022-01-11 02:00

Really useful cmd tool.

Pieropol on 2022-10-29 10:57

The download link refer to version 1.015

Andrew Lee on 2022-10-31 08:21

@Pieropol: I have fixed the download link

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MZCacheView v2.21

Andrew Lee on 21 Oct 2022
  • 181KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by ClausValca

MZCacheView reads the cache folder of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape Web browsers and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last modified time, Last fetched time, Expiration time, Fetch count, Server name and more. You can select one or more items from the cache list and then extract the files to another folder, or copy the URLs list to the clipboard.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MZCacheView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Show Milliseconds In Time' option (For 'Last Modified' and 'Last Fetched' columns).

LastActivityView v1.36

Mike.S.G. on 11 Oct 2022
  • 165KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

LastActivityView collects information from various sources on a running system and displays a log of actions made by the user and events that occurred on the machine. Events include running .exe files, any open/save dialog-boxes, opening file/folder from Explorer or other software, software installation, system shutdown/start, application or system crash, network connection/disconnection and more.

You can easily export this information into csv/tab-delimited/xml/html file or copy it to the clipboard and then paste into Excel or other software.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 LastActivityView.exe.
What's new? Added:
  • Added 'Show Milliseconds In Time' option.
Latest comments
Checker on 2016-05-26 20:38

@Allen: Link tested ... works fine.

__philippe on 2017-01-18 14:32

LastActivityView v1.26

The new "Sleep" activity indicators ("Sleep/Resumed from sleep") display correctly under Win7.

Sadly, the Sleep indicators do not show at all under WinXP...:-(

MIKLO on 2017-04-20 14:14

Very nice and way useful thanks to the maker for your work on this project :).
MIKLO

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DiskCountersView v1.30

Andrew Lee on 5 Oct 2022
  • 71KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

DiskCountersView displays information about the drives on your system based on Window's system counters of each disk drive. Includes the total number of read/write operations and the total number of read/write bytes. Additionally, general drive information is also displayed like disk name, partition number, partition location, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 DiskCountersView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
  • Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of DiskCountersView will be invisible on start.
  • Added 'Bytes Counter Unit' option. You can choose one of the following units: Bytes, kB, KiB, MB, MiB, GB, GiB.

OpalCalc v1.94

lintalist on 2 Oct 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Sep 2021
  • Suggested by twinbee

OpalCalc is new type of calculator using natural language to function like Notepad or a word processor. It lets you build text with numbers adjacent to sums over multiple lines so you can quickly go back and adjust your previous calculations with the answers auto-updating on the fly. OpalCalc is ideal for putting math into everyday thinking such as for quick budgets and shopping lists.

Built-in features include percentages, currency conversion, custom functions/variables, date/time support, color coding, lightweight size, configurable interface, hundreds of measures and functions, and more.

Freeware version limited to 5 lines.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5+
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch OpalCalc.exe.
What's new? See:
https://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/#history
Latest comments
Foot on 2014-04-28 00:35

The download links (at 27 April 2014) lead to the installers. The portable zip is available through a link at the upper right of the website page.

twinbee on 2014-04-28 13:41

@Foot: Thanks, main links on this page fixed!

DarkShadow on 2016-02-17 10:01

v1.80 released !

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Firewall App Blocker V1.9

Midas on 30 Sep 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by klon

Firewall App Blocker simplifies program management settings for the Windows Firewall. The program makes it easy to block or allow program and process access to the network. Supports batch operations for multiple programs or processes, drag-and-drop, inbound rules tab (for servers), and disabling/enabling Internet access.

By default, the program manages listed processes, but can also be set to allow ONLY those processes shown, or "whitelist" mode.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Windows Firewall enabled (doesn’t work with other firewall tools)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download and launch the self-extracting EXE. Launch FAB.exe or FAB_x64.exe for 64-bit machines.
Similar/alternative apps: SimpleWall
What's new? What is new: (Wednesday, 28 September 2022)

[FIXED] – If you change GUI language, Enable WhiteList box disappears
[FIXED] – A minor bug in command prompt
[FIXED] – Entries can’t be sorted that the most recently added ones are at the top
[ADDED] – Partial language support for “File -> Netsh Commands”

FuguHub v8.1

lwc on 30 Sep 2022
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Aug 2020
  • Suggested by David Gagnon

FuguHub (formerly BarracudaDrive) enables various server tools and file sharing via a web browser. A number of plugins are integrated into the product, including a WebDAV Server, Large File Mailer, Website Builder, Bulletin Board, and Application Server.

Note that access to the server from beyond your local network will require a dynamic DNS service. See the website for more information.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FuguHub.exe -console.

Open a web browser and enter "localhost" to begin the setup process.
Similar/alternative apps: HFS
What's new? Not available, formerly in https://fuguhub.com/readme.txt
Latest comments
Grunt on 2008-08-12 14:32

Homepage has moved.

mozkill on 2010-02-10 14:59

you can accomplish the same thing as this software simply by running a Hamachi VPN (the non-managed version) plus the HFS file server (through the VPN tunnel). Its easier than I make it sound.

Vavo on 2010-04-21 17:39

Nothing special. The web interface is ugly. Any HFS will do this. Can not change the port of the server. Only the upload function is a plus

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gPodder Portable v3.11.0

webfork on 18 Feb 2023
  • 43MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by joby_toss

gPodder is an easy-to-use podcatcher, able to subscribe to free audio and video content ("podcasts") to open on your computer or on the go. The program can batch download all recent podcasts (often as many as 30 episodes). Features synchronization with a variety of devices including iPod, MP3 players, and mobile phone support. Works with RSS, Atom, XSPF, Vimeo, YouTube, Apple and Soundcloud feeds.

gPodder is cross platform (Mac/Linux) and gPodder Portable is a portable wrapper for the program. Includes optional integration the with my.gpodder.org Web Service. Alternatively, a non-PortableApps version is also available from the gPodder home page.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gPodderPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Ziepod
What's new? See: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/releases
Latest comments
donald on 2013-09-13 21:44

Last edit today 9/13/13 added the category = Internet - Podcast Managers
Hopefully other entries could be added including those already listed @TPFC like Gpodder.

webfork on 2017-03-01 21:18

Anyone unable to download soundcloud should know that this is is a known issue: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues/235

bitcoin on 2018-01-25 20:04

up to v3.9.6 now

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LoadedDllsView v1.06

Andrew Lee on 25 Sep 2022
  • 121KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by billon

LoadedDllsView scans all running processes on your system and displays the list of all DLL files loaded by these processes. The program also shows the number of processes that load each DLL in the list. When selecting a file in the upper pane, the lower pane displays the list of all processes that use the selected file. You can also select one or more DLL files and then export the list into comma-delimited/tab-delimited/html/xml file.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch LoadedDllsView.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed a bug that caused a token handles leak.

NetworkCountersWatch v1.05

Andrew Lee on 21 Sep 2022
  • 107KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by billon

NetworkCountersWatch displays system counters for every network interface on your system, which includes the numbers of incoming/outgoing bytes, incoming/outgoing and broadcast packets and more. You can also initialize all counters to zero at any time in order to watch the network counters for specific event. It also calculates and displays the current download and upload speed on your network interface.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 NetworkCountersWatch.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of NetworkCountersWatch will be invisible on start.
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.

MyPhoneExplorer v2.0

Ennovy on 20 Sep 2022
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by perwhis

MyPhoneExplorer is a program that allows you to administer Sony-Ericsson mobile phones and any Android-based phones. You may connect your phone via cable, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or infrared port. It can handle the adressbook, organizer, SMSs, files and even calls.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: Donationware
How to extract: Download the installer and go through the setup process choosing the portable mode. Launch MyPhoneExplorer portable.exe.
What's new? See: https://www.fjsoft.at/en/Versions/
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2022-09-19 20:40

Now at version 2.0

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SimpleProgramDebugger v1.16

Andrew Lee on 19 Sep 2022
  • 112KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

SimpleProgramDebugger is a simple debugging tool that attaches to existing, active program or starts a new program in debugging mode and then displays all major debugging events occurs while the program is running. This includes Exception, Create Thread, Create Process, Exit Thread, Exit Process, Load DLL, Unload Dll, and Debug String.

After the debugging events are accumulated, you can easily export them into comma-delimited/tab-delimited/xml/html file or copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into Excel or any other spreadsheet application.

Category:
Runs on:Win98
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SimpleProgramDebugger.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).
  • Fixed a few high DPI mode issues.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a small token handles leak (In the 'Select Process' window).

Avidemux v2.8.1 Updated

Llewelyn on 17 Apr 2024
  • 62MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Netgirl

Avidemux is a video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Cross-platform (Linux, BSD, OS X).

Alternatively, X-Avidemux and Avidemux Portable are also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Qt keys saved to registry
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the Portable Windows 64-bit zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Rename avidemux.exe to avidemux_portable.exe and launch.
Similar/alternative apps: MKVToolnix
What's new? See:
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/news.html
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-04-29 16:52

I gotta agree with @smaragdus its up to the anti-virus developer to correct their mistake naming something as malware or anything bad when in fact it is not! I have used this software for quite some time and really like and its easy to use & works great.
MIKLO

gbrao on 2017-07-16 12:17

There is a v2.6.21, only for x64.
"same as 2.6.20 with x265 encoder fixed on win64"

https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/avidemux/2.6.21/

turionaltec on 2019-04-16 06:31

Love this software to do quick edits (just cutting out a clip from a longer video), or to convert file types (avi->mp4). If the codec remains the same it will be done in seconds!

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BabelMap Portable v15.0.0.1

Andrew Lee on 14 Sep 2022
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

BabelMap is a character map application that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire of over 110,000 characters, or search for a particular character by name or by code point. Characters can then be copied to the clipboard for use in any Unicode-aware application.

BabelMap Portable is a version of the software packaged in PortableApps.com format.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BabelMapPortable.exe.
What's new? See: https://babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap_Versions.html
Latest comments
tomcat on 2022-04-09 07:30

If you go to
WORD > Insert > Symbol...
you'll see the available Unicode characters with their codes and can insert them in a document.

juverax on 2022-04-10 13:19

I don't really like and trust "Online Installers".
I would prefer a regular portable app that you "unpack and run".

JohnTHaller on 2022-04-12 13:22

PortableApps.com uses online installers when necessary by license.

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Crypto Notepad v1.7.3

Andrew Lee on 10 Sep 2022
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

Crypto Notepad is a simple, notepad-like text editor that encrypts saved files. Other features include font and color customization, word wrap, shortcut keys, and auto-lock on minimize. You can press the lock icon to hide information without closing the application (will switch to a password prompt).

Utilizes the AES encryption algorithm with available 128, 192, and 256 key sizes.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1+
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Crypto Notepad.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: fSekrit, Steganos LockNote
What's new? See: https://github.com/Crypto-Notepad/Crypto-Notepad/wiki/Release-Notes
Latest comments
Hawk on 2017-02-13 14:20

Don't have tabs?

webfork on 2017-02-13 22:52

@Hawk: no but feel free to request that feature on the github site. Author is fairly responsive.

vmars316 on 2018-12-20 14:40

Couldn't open zip file , had to use 7z .

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CheckDisk v1.7

Andrew Lee on 9 Sep 2022
  • 540KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by AlephX

CheckDisk searches for and repairs disk errors via either a basic or thorough surface test. The program is similar to ScanDisk and chkdsk tools supplied with Windows. It can find bad sectors on your disk and mark them as such, working on both hard disks (including SCSI and RAID) and removable media. It can also check CDs for errors as well.

Note: Manual is in German.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch checkDisk.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new?
  • Checkdisk 1.7: Minor fixed
Latest comments
wagner reatto on 2019-08-15 18:55

I have system (Windows) on an SSD (C:), a Disk 1 Tb (Seagate) (D:), here it is the pagefile.sys. This application presents problems on both disks when it is to read and fix. On an external Seagate 1 Tb everything goes well.

AndTheWolf on 2022-09-09 13:28

Now at version 1.7

tomcat on 2022-09-10 03:12

The developer states “It is quite similar to the ScanDisk tool or chkdsk.exe, supplied with the Windows operating systems”.
The obvious question then arises, why choose it over those? There doesn’t seem to be an answer to this.

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PhotoDemon v9.0

Special on 8 Sep 2022
  • 30MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

PhotoDemon is a fast, feature-rich photo editor with rotate, resize, crop, etc. and a variety of color, contrast, filters and other graphics tools. The program also allows adding text, a metadata viewer/editor, on-canvas paint tool, layers, screenshot too, and works with common graphics formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, JP2, JXR, PPM, TGA and WEBP.

The program also supports macro edition and batch processing.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: BSD license
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PhotoDemon.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: LazPaint, paint.net
What's new? See:
https://photodemon.org/news/
Latest comments
PhotoDemon on 2020-09-11 16:28

Hi Zorro. PhotoDemon developer here. PD shouldn't have any new dependencies between v7 and v8. (In fact, its system dependencies haven't really changed since the Windows XP era!)

If the app was working for you in the past but it doesn't now, please get in touch so I can investigate. Contact info here: https://photodemon.org/about/contact/

No .NET libraries are required by PD or any of the 3rd-party libraries it uses, but like all Windows apps, it does require *some* system libraries to be present. This includes the VB runtimes built into Windows 8.1 and 10 (full list here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-basic-6/visual-basic-6-support-policy#runtime-definition). If a determined user manually removes those libraries, PD is unlikely to run. I'm afraid I don't have a way to prevent this. :(

Thank you in advance for any follow-up information you can provide. I no longer have a Windows 8.1 system available for testing, but if I've somehow broken PD on it, I'd love to fix it as quickly as I can.

zorro on 2020-09-20 14:01

Hi PhotoDemon ;-) - just wanted to send you a screenshot of the message appearing when I try to start the program... but PhotoDemon updated itsself and now the problem is gone. Means version 8.2 is working like a charm (and like old version 7.0) on my machine. Thanks for so much backwards-compatibility!

PhotoDemon on 2020-09-21 15:49

Thank you so much for the follow-up, Zorro! My favorite bugs are the ones that fix themselves. :D

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Stick A Note v3.1.1

Andrew Lee on 6 Sep 2022
  • 357KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Apr 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Stick A Note is an unique note-taking program in that it connects to an individual application window. Notes move with the window and disappear when window is not in focused or when the program hotkey is toggled (Win+N by default). Includes available color and hotkey customization, and all notes are saved to the application folder as text files.

Useful for keeping notes on individual applications such as usability or beta testing, or for keeping notes on infrequent/difficult programs to serve as reminders for use.

Note: Some software changes the window title with program behavior, which will make Stick A Note think it's working with a separate program (for example, this happens whenever you type anything into the search box of "Everything"). Stick A Note's associated note will no longer be visible (though still saved to disk) until the window returns to it's previous state.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 Stick A Note.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Stickypaper
What's new? See https://sites.google.com/site/stickanote/changes
Latest comments
RainrooM on 2018-12-16 06:02

interesting to add notes to a 'folder' or even on 'specific emails' ...

hamasaki on 2022-09-06 20:29

Download link is a 404.

Andrew Lee on 2022-09-06 21:42

@hamasaki: Fixed download link

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Volumouse v2.10

Andrew Lee on 6 Sep 2022
  • 98KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by Local

Volumouse allows you to control a several system settings with the scroll wheel of your mouse including volume, screen brightness, window transparency, and more. These can be attached to certain events such as when a specific application is in focus or when the mouse is in a certain position (over the taskbar, on the side of the screen, etc.)

The program also allows you to restrict the wheel action to a set of rules for determining when it can changesettings. You can for example use your right mouse wheel, alt/ctrl key, etc. Volume settings for microphone, speakers, and default recording can be attached to any different combination of these.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies:
  • Wheel mouse & Sound card
  • Administrator rights (Vista/Win7)
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch volumouse.exe.
What's new?
  • Volumouse now uses completely different method to hook the mouse wheel events. This change has multiple advantages:
  • It fixes the problem with the taskbar of Windows 11.
  • It fixes the problem with the trackbar indicator on Windows 10.
  • There is no need for the hook DLL anymore (vlmshlp.dll)
  • volumouse is just a single .exe file that works with both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
  • Mouse over the title bar - Updated to work properly with non-standard title bars (Like in Chrome, Firefox, and Explorer windows of Windows 10/11)
Latest comments
webfork on 2013-02-16 02:58

So lucky to have this. My Lenovo machine has poor volume control buttons that frequently ignore input depending on what application is in focus. Volumouse meanwhile doesn't care: I have the left button + scroll wheel mapped to slowing increasing/decreasing the sound and the right button + scroll wheel mapped to mute and un-mute. Just excellent.

Especially like that it only takes up a little over a meg of RAM.

bankr on 2013-07-17 06:49

Volumouse is my default program for about two yaers already.
Thanks to the author.

bankr on 2013-10-04 18:05

Despite being very handy Volumouse lacks very important feature for me - preset volume levels. I need 11 of them - 1 (100%), 1/2 (50%), 1/2^2 (25%), ..., 1/2^9 (0.195%) and 0. Now I found Volume2. Don't sure whether it can be completely registry-stealth or not (uses HKCU/Run for autorun), at least it saves Config.ini to its folder.
Goodbye Volumouse.
P.S. Still using NirCmd "nircmdc setsysvolume xxxxx" by lnk-files in start-programs menu for setting volume w/o mouse.

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qTox v1.17.6

webfork on 21 Aug 2022
  • 45MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Mar 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

qTox is an easy, secure instant messaging and VoIP client for the distributed Tox network. The program includes standard features like chat between users, group chats, file transfer with image preview, as well as high-quality audio and video calls with group call capability.

The program is peer-to-peer, meaning no central server is necessary for the network to function.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac, Windows, FreeBSD and Android. Alternatively, qTox Portable is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Windows 8 and 10: Empty folder written to \AppData\Roaming\tox
Windows 7: Duplicate user files saved to \AppData\Roaming\tox
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer (ending in x86_64.exe) and extract
  2. Copy the contents of setup-qtox-XXX-release.exe\_•€\bin to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch qtox.exe
  4. Create a username and optional password
  5. Click settings (gear icon), choose the Advanced tab, and select "Make Tox portable"
Optionally, close the program and delete the folder C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\tox\ (this makes the program more stealth)
Similar/alternative apps: Isotoxin, Ricochet, TorChat
What's new? See:
https://github.com/qTox/qTox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2017-04-27 01:44

Portability may be lost after update- re-enable it from "Settings" - "Advanced" - "Make Tox portable".

webfork on 2018-01-15 19:20

@billon: Thanks, posted something in forums about it.

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µTorrent v3.5.5.46348 Adware

lwc on 18 Aug 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by Vurlix

µTorrent (or uTorrent) is a lightweight BitTorrent client that supports multiple simultaneous downloads, file level priorities, configurable bandwidth scheduler and speed limiters, even the ability to only run while user activity is detected. Also includes boss key, built-in search function and RSS capability for subscribed downloads.

Note that this software was changed to adware after being added to the Portable Freeware database.

Alternatively, µTorrent Portable is also available, which automatically adjusts paths.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Adware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer, extract Carrier.exe with 7-Zip to a folder of your choice and rename it to uTorrent.exe
  2. Create an empty text file called settings.dat in the same folder
  3. Launch uTorrent.exe
Similar/alternative apps: qBittorrent, Halite
What's new? See:
http://www.should.keepfree.de/utorrent_alltime_changelogs.txt
Latest comments
ashghost on 2017-12-24 23:19

@robzuc: see 'What is "portable"' on the "about" page: https://www.portablefreeware.com/about.php Not leaving stuff behind is not "stealth" in the parlance here, and uTorrent works fine when moving from machine to machine and saves your settings.

Peter202 on 2019-05-17 14:49

After i extracted uTorrent.exe 3.5.5 with 7-zip in the extracted folder there are couple of .dll files. Are they needed? Can i delete them?

billon on 2019-05-17 20:35

@Peter202:

No, only file you need is Carrier.exe renamed to uTorrent.exe
And created settings.dat

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eMule v0.60d

lwc on 18 Aug 2022

eMule is a client for the eDonkey P2P network. It uses several networks (ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad) to create one reliable network, and features auto priorities and source management so that you can start many downloads without having to monitor them.

NOTE: This program has not been updated in many years and may be subject to security vulnerabilities.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. It writes some file association entries to the registry.
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch emule.exe.
What's new? https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/
Latest comments
No ED2K on 2008-02-12 17:52

I am back for more important informations.

---

I have told you that the original emule client has over 55 special modifications - some have over 100 new features. But there are exists also bad programmers who know a filesharer cant go to the police. Here are my warnings and support for you.:

-- Dangerous Emule Mods ---

1.) Ketamine and eMCrypt - after a while you must pay money for the client.

2.) eMule v0.30e 1.x,FutureMule, PowerMule and eMule 0.47a Pro Gold Version - cost money with backdoors and spyware.

--- Secure excellent Emule Mods ---

X-Ray, StulleMulle. Sivka and MorphXT.

On this site you could study all the new features for this 4 emule Mods with a higher speed and security level.:

http://wiki.emule-web.de/index.php/Category:Features

Another great one is MorphXT.:

http://emulemorph.sourceforge.net/

Any of them are works perfect with a pendrive / USB stick. Btw. i do not recommned to use emule clients from USA - please use only the famous Mods from brasilia, germany, french and china / taiwan.

Ubelievable! Today i saw over 3 million user with 937,820,160 files. Plain folly! It look likes P2P is with no law, no public exposure or any other aggressions stoppable. 30 % of all data traffic in this world is P2P - at saturday night 70% in germany.

thanks - good luck

PS.: Interesting is also the eMule v0.48a ROCKFORCE Mod v1.3 with Encryption (AES 256 bit) for File-Transfers.

No ED2K on 2008-03-04 19:49

Dear P2P kids,

hi i am back. This is a police secret. Listen! Any emule creates a unique hash identity. This hash is always the same no matter what kind of emule modification you use because its made by your networkcard with his unique MAC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

Dear P2P kids,

the police know it if you are online. Always. You must change at any time your hardware MAC address at your networkcard / adapter. This is possible with software or look at your networkcard features.

summarization

- use ipfilter.dat

- use obfuscation connection

- use emule- / kadmods

- activate only the kad network

- never ever use a ed2k server

- i2p works but makes it very slow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

- change your ethernet networkcard MAC per software or over networkcard driver in hardware manager

- never ever use british / us-american emule clients

- dont share to much / the police dont hunt ppl with only 3 illegal mp3 or 2 movies because the jurisdictional amount is not high enough

kids! good luck!

btw.: the elite and high professionel filesharer works actually only with filehoster's (russia, easteurope, china, southamerica, sweden) and enciphered packers.

http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
http://freearc.org/

a police professional.: "actually the ppl which use international filehoster with encrypted zipfiles are not under our control but we could catch any P2P user ..."

pierat on 2009-03-06 08:50

you can always download safely if you're in a country that has no piracy laws.but it takes the fun out of it knowing that what you're doing is legal

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Deluge v2.1.1

lwc on 18 Aug 2022
  • 52MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by WIkiQUsK

Deluge is a lightweight BitTorrent client designed to be unobtrusive, leaving much of its functionality to available plugins (such as RSS and scheduler). The program includes encryption, DHT, Local Peer Discovery, µTorrent Peer Exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP, proxy support, web seed, private torrents, speed limits, bandwidth scheduler, and more. The interface can be password-protected.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux, OS X and Unix. The program allows multiple user-interfaces including GTK+, Web, and console, with available password protection. Utilizes a libtorrent back-end.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Temporary files are saved to %APPDATA%. For more details, read here and here.
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. If present, move the files and folders inside $_OUTDIR to the main folder (where deluge.exe is located)
  3. Launch deluge.exe -c data

Optionally, delete the $PLUGINSDIR folder.
Similar/alternative apps: qBitTorrent
What's new? See:
https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

RetroShare v0.6.6

lwc on 18 Aug 2022
  • 49MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Mar 2021
  • Suggested by lautrepay

RetroShare is a feature-rich communications platform for small groups of users with a focus on privacy. The program includes an exclusive and secure toolset for instant messaging, chat rooms, forums, direct messages (e-mail), file server, VoIP, channels for distributing content and link exchange. It functions as an open, distributed alternative to many commercial groupware programs.

Additional features include RSS feed reader, status messages (away/busy), different modes for low traffic, transfer and disk space limits, plugins, skins and much more. Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, BSD).

Great for small businesses, groups, and a safer alternative to most file sharing methods. Networks can be small or large, but communications between users are limited by default to friends and friends-of-friends, with more specific controls available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the "Portable" 7z package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch RetroShare.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: qTox, Brosix
What's new? See:
https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2021/03/15/release-notes-for-v0-6-6/
Latest comments
ozziguy on 2017-03-14 10:16

v0.6.2 QT5 does not run on xp because QT5 does not support xp anymore

XP users must use the accompanying v0.6.2 QT4 version

ozziguy on 2017-03-14 10:17

Forgot to mention the portable version is now chosen from the installer

webfork on 2017-03-17 23:00

@ozziguy: Looks like they're still offering the portable 7zip version, and it's 20% smaller. I'll go ahead and list both. Thanks for the note.

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IObit Unlocker Portable v1.3

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by lwc

IObit Unlocker fixes the permissions on locked files and folders, and also allowing delete, rename, move or copy. It includes an optional Forced mode, which attempts to terminate all related processes that may be affecting the lock status.

IObit Unlocker Portable is a modified version by PortableApps.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Windows registry, %ALLUSERSAPPDATA%
Stealth: ? No
Path portability: Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package.
  2. Extract to a folder of your choice.
  3. Launch IObitUnlockerPortable.exe.

Since the original program is not portable, PortableApps stays in the background while the original program runs its course, then deletes its leftovers.

FirmwareTablesView v1.02

Andrew Lee on 8 Aug 2022
  • 98KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by Checker

FirmwareTablesView displays a list of firmware tables (ACPI, SMBIOS) stored on your system. You can view the content of these tables in Hex-dump format and export them to a binary file.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 FirmwareTablesView.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.

Boom v1.0.38

Andrew Lee on 4 Aug 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by lautrepay

Boom is a lightweight and simple audio player featuring gapless playback, ReplayGain support, a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view of the indexed files etc. The program supports most major formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A (requires Microsoft codecs included with Windows 7) and WMA.

Developed by the author of foobar2000, the program includes a simplified version of it's Properties dialog that provides basic tagging capabilities.

Note: When running in portable mode, Boom will index the contents of the folder it's installed in.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download Boom.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. Create two empty text files in the application folder and then give them the following names:
    • Boom.exe.localconfig.opt
    • Boom.exe.locallibrary.opt
  3. Launch Boom.exe
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1, OooPlayer
What's new?
  • Fixed failure to index music on some readonly network shares.
  • Updated MP4 handler (now recognizes Opus and FLAC content in MP4).
Latest comments
TP109 on 2017-01-28 02:48

I agree with User2100. This is a very fast launching player with a very small footprint, but the lack of a time slider is a big issue.

AndTheWolf on 2022-06-06 12:40

Now at version 1.0.37

freakazoid on 2022-06-07 00:09

Thanks AndTheWolf. Updated!

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Spamihilator v1.7

Andrew Lee on 2 Aug 2022
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by carbonize

Spamihilator works between your email client and the Internet to examine incoming messages for problems, filtering out useless and unsolicited spam mails (junk). This process runs completely in the background, using a number of different filters in order to achieve the highest spam recognition rate possible. The program is highly configurable and can be extended via plugins.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch spamihilator.exe.
What's new?
  • Improved compatibility with mail accounts from Web.de and GMX
  • Support for newer encryption algorithms
  • Updated certificate for encrypted connections between your mail client and Spamihilator
Latest comments
Loner on 2013-01-01 06:27

Screenshot is very small...can't see anything.

webfork on 2013-01-05 19:13

Screenshot looks fine to me

Philiweb on 2022-08-02 05:58

Spamihilator 1.7 has been released! :-) (https://www.spamihilator.com/en/blog/spamihilator-1.7-has-been-released/)

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fHash v2.4.0

webfork on 30 Jul 2022
  • 451KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by smaragdus

fHash is a simple, drag-and-drop tool that helps determine if a file has been changed, modified, or corrupted via a hash string. The program can evaluate multiple files and supports MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and CRC32 hashes. Includes a verification capability that searches evaluated files for a given hash.

Cross platform with a client available for Mac.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package according to your OS' bitness and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete fHashShlExt.dll or fHashShlExt64.dll
  3. Launch fHash.exe or fHash64.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Hash
What's new? https://github.com/sunjw/fhash/releases
  • Windows UWP fix progress bar high DPI display issue
  • Windows UWP fix Windows version detection issue
  • Fix other issues
  • Windows MFC release 2.4.0
Latest comments
Midas on 2021-02-10 09:48

As of v2.2.0, fHash has gone 64-bit only. The last 32-bit version is still available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fhash/files/2.1.9/.

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Stella v6.7

lwc on 27 Jul 2022
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by Magibon

Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator, allowing you to play Atari 2600 games.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stella.exe from inside the 32-bit or the 64-bit folder with the argument:
Stella.exe -baseinappdir
OR
Stella.exe -basedir configfolder (replace configfolder with a name of your choice).
What's new? See:
https://stella-emu.github.io/changelog.html

CSV Buddy v3.0

lwc on 22 Dec 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by JnLlnd

CSV Buddy adds additional functionality to the widely-supported basic spreadsheets known as Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files. The program allows the edition of a variety of formats, import/export, reorder, merge and more. Tasks can be automated with scripting commands.

Works with comma-delimited, tab-delimited and other CSV-type files. A 64-bit version is included. Written using AutoHotKey.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes. Unicode support in 64-bit version.
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CSVBuddy-x_x-32-bit.exe or CSVBuddy-x_x-64-bit.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CSVFileView
What's new?
  • User interface improved with configurable fonts, screen scaling support
  • Automate tasks with scripting commands
  • Merge existing fields in new fields at load time or with the user interface

Opera v89 Adware

Ennovy on 19 Jul 2022
  • 137MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Jul 2022
  • Suggested by Specular

Opera is a fast and secure web browser with tabbed, customizable interface. Features integrated searches, themes, device sync, mouse gestures, and built-in ad blocking. Also available is a service that includes a bookmarks and password sync along with an "off-road" mode that uses server-side compression to speed up browsing especially for low speed internet connections (account signup required). A variety of add-ons are available to extend functionality.

Based on Google Chrome, the program is available for Mac, Linux, Android and a variety of mobile phones and tablets. Opera v12 (Presto) is also available and includes many features not present in the newer version.

Alternative Portable versions:

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\Opera Software, HKCU\Software\MozillaPlugins, HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Adware (was initially freeware when added to the database)
How to extract:
  1. Download and launch Setup.exe
  2. Select Options and choose Stand-alone installation (USB)
  3. Set Install path to a folder of your choice and click Accept & Install
  4. Launch launcher.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Vivaldi, Google Chrome Portable
What's new? See:https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2022/07/opera-89-stable/
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2019-03-07 10:40

Like Opera, just wish it did not updates every week. Another today, never know what is updated, security, or unimportant.

PAFuser on 2019-04-09 11:04

Upgraded to 60, only 1 extension icon is visible. Does anyone know how to get them back? They can not be used when invisible.

PAFuser on 2019-04-10 17:44

Simple solution, download new installer, install to new location, add all extensions to Opera, change settings, import bookmarks. Easy upgrade, HA!

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GifCam v7.0

Andrew Lee on 6 Jul 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by guinness

GifCam is a handy and reliable application designed to record the screen and to convert the recordings into GIF format. It supports to define the recording frame rate, to select the color quality, to add a text in frames, capture the cursor and much more.

Great for demonstrations, how-tos and bug testing.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder (if "Save Settings On GifCam Path" checked in "Customization")
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GifCam.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: ScreenToGif, LICEcap
What's new? See: http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam-7-0/
Latest comments
__philippe on 2018-01-13 11:23

GifCam v5.5 ßeta 5-JAN-2018 is out (new version since v5.1 OCT2015)
http://blog.bahraniapps.com/

As first mentioned by hamasaki
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=88941#p88941

GifCam v.55 changelog:
- Automatically detects and set transparent/greenscreen color
- Option for saving “setting.ini” in the same gifcam directory
- GifCam 5.5 can access/use 4GB address space on 64 bit computers
- Accurate pixel perfect recording area calculations
- Fixed “recording outside area” & “black border” for some high-res displays
- Supports dropping gif file on the main GifCam window to open it.

portablefree on 2022-07-06 17:03

Updated to version 7.0 (2022-06-02, 2022, June, 2nd)
Changelog:
- Quantize Windows Color Reduction: Reduce to an optimal 256 color Windows palette. It’s slow encoding, but in some cases it gives better color-matching than quantize.
- Option for global CTRL+R shortcut key for rec/stop.
- Option for saving last position: If this option is not checked, the gifcam app will open in the center of the desktop.
- Auto-space between frames and delay labels regardless of system font size.
- Fixed Windows XP right click menu.
- Some other bug fixes.

__philippe on 2022-07-07 10:04

Belatedly discovered a Gifcam quirk in the Win XP version...:-(
(XP buttons regrettably lack the side arrow ▼ included in Win7 version):

• Right-clicking "Rec" button opens a keyboard shortcuts list
• Right-clicking "Save" button opens an options + "about" list

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LICEcap v1.32

Andrew Lee on 5 Jul 2022
  • 444KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to animated GIF files. Features include: move the screen capture frame while recording, pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages, global hotkey (Shift+Space) to toggle pausing while recording, adjustable maximum recording framerate, basic title frame, with or without text, record mouse button presses, display elapsed time in the recording.

You can run multiple LICEcap window simultaneously, even of another LICEcap.

Cross-platform with a version available for Mac OS.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract licecap.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. In this folder, create an empty text file and rename it to licecap.ini
  3. Launch licecap.exe
Similar/alternative apps: GifCam
What's new?
  • Windows: Prevent positioning window offscreen [issue 72]
  • Windows: sign installer/executable
Latest comments
Checker on 2015-08-27 19:22

@smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

Cornflower on 2018-01-18 11:41

This is excellent! I'm already creating demos with it.
Of the 2017 utilities, I use this one and Calculor the most.

Ennovy on 2022-07-05 11:04

The website announces the release of version 1.32 for Windows: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap132-install.exe

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