IrfanView is a viewer for a wide variety of image, audio and video formats. The program includes batch processing, creation of panoramic images, edition of multi-page TIFF files, lossless JPEG rotate/crop and effects such as sharpen and blur. Other tools such as screen capture, scanner, slideshow, plugin support and ability to capture icons from EXE or DLL.
Alternatively, IrfanView Portable is also available and updates drive letters and handles registry keys.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use (the installer is adware) |
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Similar/alternative apps: | XnView, Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer |
What's new? | See: https://www.irfanview.com/main_history.htm |
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Andrew Lee
on 2022-12-11 05:23
@Cornflower: Seems like the 32-bit ZIP is also available now. I have updated both download links.
Cornflower
on 2023-12-10 08:43
Also note that virtually every new release updates some plugins, and version 4.65 is no exception. Most users may want to go to https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm and download the 32- or 64-bit package, and dump them into the Irfanview Plugins subdirectory.
Cornflower
on 2024-04-05 13:40
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I notice in 4.67 that the OCR plugin is updated. It suggests using the Tesseract OCR, which I suspect is not portable. When I test it I will be looking to see if it can be made portable, and if it works with 32-bit Irfanview (there are a number of limitations with the 64-bit Irfanview so I am staying there). |
MemPad is a text editor that lets you add, edit, and arrange your notes in a hierarchical, tree-based view. It supports text search, word-wrap mode, read-only mode, auto-save, notebook encryption, automatic backup, search-and-replace, a diary mode etc.
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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 Mempad.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
What's new? | See: https://horstmuc.de/wnews.htm |
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hamasaki
on 2015-05-01 15:25
@Cornflower, I`ve tried that but when you save in MemPad it doesn`t update the dropbox file, you have to export it again. No good.
NunoEFSilva
on 2021-12-19 06:26
This is another hidden gem. Does it take notes in a structured way? Does it encrypt its contents? Yes, but that is just the beginning... One may keep all its favorites and use MemPad as a launcher of sites (http:something.dom), applications (file:..\ProgramFolder\Program.exe - it even accepts relative paths), folders and much more. All in little more than 100 KBytes! Sheer Magic!
Cornflower
on 2022-02-18 01:47
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Updated to 3.69 |
LeoMoon HotKeyz is a lightweight system-wide hotkey manager that lets you assign global hotkeys to files, folders, programs, system actions, active windows, URLs, and text snippets. An unlimited number of system-wide hotkeys can be defined, and the program itself can be enabled/disabled with a hotkey (by default [Ctrl]+[Win]+[2]).
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
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 LeoMoon HotKeyz.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Shortcut Keys, X-Hotkey-P |
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Textify lets users copy text from such normally static dialog boxes, system messages, program tabs and more. Ideal for quickly taking down diagnostic/error messages in system testing, the program lets you grab part or all of the needed text. It also can launch web services such as Google Translate or external programs.
The program also grabs the "alt" text and URL of web images.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | SysExporter |
What's new? | See: https://ramensoftware.com/downloads/textify_setup.exe?changelog. |
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Midas
on 2022-05-24 05:55
@stevenmonrad: as a suggestion, being a portable program, you could just fire Textify whenever needed and close it afterwards...
rbon
on 2022-05-30 13:23
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Textify rel. 1.10.1 released at May 30, 2022. |
TED Notepad is a small and fast text editor intended as a replacement for Windows notepad. The program offers a variety of interface tools including hotkeys for almost every function, ability to minimize to system tray, favorite files menu, and many more. Additionally, up to nine permanent clipboards, advanced searching, auto-completion, bi-directional editing and many text-processing functions.
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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" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TedNPad.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | AkelPad |
What's new? | See:http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/changes.php |
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Ennovy
on 2021-10-10 15:36
oct 2, 2021 version 6.3 Release Candidate
Cornflower
on 2021-12-01 07:17
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Note a lot of new functions in 6.3.1 (see changelog). Also, after using beta versions without manual updates, it is good to see the manual is up to date in 6.3.1 |
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.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | GifCam |
What's new? |
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Cornflower
on 2018-01-18 11:41
This is excellent! I'm already creating demos with it.
Ennovy
on 2022-07-05 11:04
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The website announces the release of version 1.32 for Windows: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap132-install.exe |
Extra Keys helps you to type many letters and symbols that may not appear on your keyboard, including accented characters for French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Scandinavian languages, as well as many other special symbols.
A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).
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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 extrakeys.exe (for 32-bit OS) or extrakeys-x64.exe (for 64-bit OS). |
Similar/alternative apps: | Free Virtual Keyboard |
What's new? | See: https://www.deeproot.co.uk/blog/tag/extra-keys/ |
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juverax
on 2023-05-16 10:06
Lexilogos (online service, but downloadable ) has currently 177 different keyboards.
AndTheWolf
on 2023-06-24 16:04
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Your link points to https://www.deeproot.co.uk/download.html, which does NOT contain a link to the the zip file. The link to the zip file, which "Includes all editions Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro, both 32-bit and 64-bit", is located in https://www.deeproot.co.uk/extrakeys_downloads.html |
PassworG is a password generator and reviewer. You can check the password strength of your own passwords, as well as tricks to help improve it. When generating passwords, you can choose the allowed characters, length, number to generate, and whether to make the results 'readable'. It then gives you your possible passwords, plus an idea of their quality.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PassworG.exe. |
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Firstobject XML Editor (or "Foxe") loads multi-megabyte files quickly and lets you format and edit HTML, or any other loosely formed markup language such as XML. The tree view is customizable for useful navigation.
Other features include syntax coloring, word wrap, Go To Line, show XML path, Microsoft global IME, and MSXML based DTD validation.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, unable to deal with Unicode filenames. |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch foxe.exe. Go to "Tools" --> "Preference" to select a location to store settings. |
What's new? |
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CodesAway
on 2010-07-03 05:00
Version 2.4.1.416 was released today. The version stays 2.4.1, but the build is 416, versus 404, which was the previous build.
olliebean
on 2013-10-26 17:51
The current version of this (v2.4.2.431) isn't stealth; it leaves a bunch of registry keys (albeit all empty) at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\First Objective Software\foxe.
I am Baas
on 2013-10-27 00:54
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@olliebean |
ControlPad turns the numeric keypad on your keyboard into a Windows command execution system. You may configure any alphanumeric code to: Execute any program, open any document, open any web address or send any series of keystrokes to the operating system.
Written in AutoHotkey.
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Runs on: | WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ControlPad.exe. |
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webfork
on 2010-10-27 20:48
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It certainly got a lot of press as an impressive tool but I was unable to test it. |