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IrfanView v4.67 Updated

gbrao on 5 Apr 2024
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

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.

Category:
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)
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Optionally, delete iv_uninstall.exe
  3. Launch i_view32.exe or i_view64.exe (for 64-bit OS)
Note: Optionally, for more advanced support download the plugins ZIP package and extract the contents to the Plugins sub-folder. Plugins add more than 20 megs to the size and support for more graphics, audio, video and more. Plugins for OCR and PDF tools are available as a separate download -- see the thread in forums on how to enable them with portable installations.
Similar/alternative apps: XnView, Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer
What's new? See: https://www.irfanview.com/main_history.htm
Latest comments
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

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).

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MemPad v3.69

Ennovy on 18 Feb 2022
  • 449KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Feb 2022
  • Suggested by alphasurfer

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.

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 Mempad.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new? See: https://horstmuc.de/wnews.htm
Latest comments
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!

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LeoMoon HotKeyz V1.8.12

rbon on 11 Jun 2023
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Jun 2023
  • Suggested by hamasaki

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]).

Category:
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
What's new?
  • Added more Active Window actions
    • Added Generate Random Password (Letters and Numbers)
  • Fixed date based text macros not evaluating properly

Textify v1.10.4

Ennovy on 1 Sep 2023
  • 763KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Sep 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

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.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and launch
  2. From the Select type of the install drop-down menu, select Portable and click Next
  3. Select a folder and click Install
  4. Launch Textify.exe

OR

  1. Download the installer and extract everything except $PLUGINSDIR and uninstall.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch Textify.exe
Similar/alternative apps: SysExporter
What's new? See: https://ramensoftware.com/downloads/textify_setup.exe?changelog.
Latest comments
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

Textify rel. 1.10.1 released at May 30, 2022.
Direct download setup (launch and choose Portable): https://ramensoftware.com/downloads/textify_setup.exe

AndTheWolf on 2022-06-27 19:44

Now at v1.10.2

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TED Notepad v6.3.1

Ennovy on 1 Dec 2021

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.

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" 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
Latest comments
ripu on 2018-03-11 11:17

Is it stealth?

Ennovy on 2021-10-10 15:36

oct 2, 2021 version 6.3 Release Candidate
download http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/thankyou.php?getfile=tnp630se_uni.zip
Changelog: http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/changes.php

Cornflower on 2021-12-01 07:17

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

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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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Extra Keys v3.0.0

Andrew Lee on 24 Jun 2023
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 May 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

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).

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 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/
Latest comments
juverax on 2023-05-16 10:06

Lexilogos (online service, but downloadable ) has currently 177 different keyboards.
See https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=104736

AndTheWolf on 2023-06-24 16:04

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

Andrew Lee on 2023-06-24 19:45

@AndTheWolf: Updated download links. Thanks!

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PassworG v1.3 (build 29)

Wolfghost on 18 Nov 2014
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Cornflower

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.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PassworG.exe.
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2010-01-07 14:52

Writes settings to "config.dat" file, in application's folder.

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Firstobject XML Editor v2.4.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

olliebean on 2013-10-26 17:51

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

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

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

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ControlPad v0.72

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Dec 2010
  • Suggested by modussn

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.

Category:
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.
Latest comments
webfork on 2010-10-27 20:48

It certainly got a lot of press as an impressive tool but I was unable to test it.

There's a "laptop mode" on this one that doesn't use the numpad but it still refuses to use anything except the F10 through F12 keys and those are currently mapped to something else.

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