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QOwnNotes v25.2.3 Updated

Ennovy on 8 Feb 2025
  • 64MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Feb 2025
  • Suggested by pbek

QOwnNotes is a text editor / notepad replacement with markdown support and todo list manager. The program supports themes, keyboard shortcuts, syntax highlighting and encryption. Includes available nested file list, tags, search and more. Optionally works with the notes application ownCloud or Nextcloud.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux. Windows XP users can find builds here.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder (if launched with QOwnNotesPortable.bat)
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch QOwnNotesPortable.bat or launch QOwnNotes.exe --portable.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new? See: https://www.qownnotes.org/changelog.html
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2019-08-09 20:08

Latest portable 64bit version throws a runtime error on Win 10.

hamasaki on 2019-08-11 22:01

Fixed in latest update.

hamasaki on 2023-01-28 02:27

Now at 23.1.3

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PrivaZer v4.0.98 Updated

Ennovy on 8 Feb 2025
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Feb 2025
  • Suggested by lautrepay

PrivaZer scans and cleans your computers and storage devices, including external disks, USB flash drives, iPods, SD cards or network drives. It safeguards your privacy by removing unwanted traces of internet activities, software usage, USB history, registry and files.

The program includes an available secure delete function that overwrites files to prevent recovery.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable version" PrivaZer.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
Similar/alternative apps: BleachBit, CCleaner
What's new? See: https://privazer.com/changelog.php
Latest comments
Klard on 2021-12-22 12:28

I've been using PrivaZer for a few months now and I like it. Most of the time when something goes wrong it is Me, not the app.

The_PrivaZer_Team on 2022-01-02 11:12

Thank you Klard for your nice words.

PrivaZer cleans around 250,000 PCs every month.
As already explained, the issue reported here by FileHandler was fixed 3 YEARS AGO in 2018 !

kinki on 2024-03-31 13:48

I've some portable browser and port. thunderbird on drive D:, not useable to clean the internet browsing.

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DesktopOK v11.57 Updated

rbon on 6 Feb 2025
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Feb 2025
  • Suggested by JohnW

DesktopOK contains a host of beneficial Windows interface tweaks. The program can save the current icon view by resolution and make it easy to swap between views, showing all saved view formats in a list. Other tools include basic screenshots, the ability to force-close programs, color tool, volume and more:

  • Interface tools include reducing clutter with a minimize-to-tray by right clicking on a window close button, mouse hiding and ability to hide desktop icons after a period of inactivity (click on the desktop to make them re-appear). You can even modify default icon spacing.

  • Window management tools include scrolling any window that your mouse hovers over (not just what's in focus) and alt+drag (for moving windows without having to hold your cursor over the top bar).

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
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. In this folder, create an empty text file and name it DesktopOK.ini. Launch DesktopOK.exe or DesktopOK_x64.exe.

Possible issues:
  • The program is in German: If not automatically set to the English, click the by clicking the flag in the lower left corner of the window for any of 24 world languages.
  • It saves to AppData: If you don't create an empty text file, it writes to %APPDATA%/DesktopOK/DesktopOK.ini. If you accidentally skipped this step, you can simply move this file over to the application folder.
Similar/alternative apps: AltDrag, ICU
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK/History
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2021-06-20 20:41

Now at version 8.98

AndTheWolf on 2022-02-04 18:47

Now at version 9.61

Pendrive on 2023-09-22 06:45

v11.11

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Charon v0.6 New

lwc on 5 Feb 2025
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Feb 2013
  • Suggested by Rhino

Charon lets you harvest publicly-posted proxy lists via Google, then verify their anonymity and functionality without user interaction. It supports filtering to automatically exclude certain proxies, such as those run by the military or government. The full documentation can be downloaded here in PDF format. A simple usage scenario can be found here.

2025-02-05 Note: Old links are dead, redirected to Archive.org.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP
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 Charon.exe.
Latest comments
Norb on 2008-04-05 05:16

Until hours of time that I was concerned with this tool, there is now only one question remaining - does it really work?
I switched my firewall off, configured the IP of my PC as DMZ Server (totally transparent to the Internet), I checked the external judges and set them up, I tried the internal judgement too etc. etc.
It does something but I really don't understand what it does. I can monitor a lot of connections to the outside when I search proxies via external search engines but it doesn't find anything at all!
The creator of this tool should really apply to some seminars about software ergonomy. I've never seen such a worse user interface!
Maybe somebody else had more luck with configuring and using this tool. He could give me some hints, perhaps ...

Jimmy on 2010-01-28 00:57

app has not been supported for many years, and was not a true public release even when it was supported. it is very good at what it is meant to do.

Cattleya on 2013-07-06 12:41

A good app, even it is an old and long time not updated app it still work very well :)

Vote for yes!

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TreeSheets Feb 1 2025 Updated

Ennovy on 5 Feb 2025
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Feb 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

TreeSheets is a mashup of many different program types including spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases. It has a tabbed interface and is lightweight and fast, using few system resources even with large files.

It's like a spreadsheet, but much more suitable for complex data because it's hierarchical. It's like a mind mapper, but more organized and compact. It's like an outliner, but in more than one dimension. It's like a text editor, but with structure. It is capable of many kinds of data organization, including todo lists, calendars, project management, brainstorming, organizing ideas, planning, requirements gathering, presentation of information, etc.

Functional in 64-bit and cross platform (Linux and Mac).

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: zlib License
How to extract:
  1. Download and extract windows_treesheets_no_installer.zip to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch TreeSheets.exe -p
Similar/alternative apps: XMind
What's new? See: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/releases
Latest comments
kanu on 2021-08-17 11:32

For the life of me I can't find any links to download latest artifacts (as it's called) in github's action page of this project. Any help, please?

dilentec on 2022-08-14 21:46

Super usefull, I really recommend following the tutorial to learn all it's great functions. As of today, binaries are available at: https://strlen.com/treesheets/

Thanks to the author and portablefreeware.com

Ennovy on 2023-04-05 06:35

Version Apr 4 2023 download ZIP file instead of installer: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/releases/download/4612737023/windows_treesheets_no_installer.zip

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VeraCrypt v1.26.18 Updated

Ennovy on 4 Feb 2025
  • 55MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by abc

VeraCrypt is volume encryption software that functions like an attached drive, making it possible to actively work with data like any other drive until the volume is dismounted. The program supports favorites, hot keys, hardware acceleration, and auto-mount options. Includes a variety of available tools for added security including keyfiles, security tokens, hidden volumes, auto-dismount, cascaded encryption and cached password management.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux. Alternatively, VeraCrypt Portable is also available.

VeraCrypt is based on the inactive TrueCrypt, attempting to solve some of the program's documented weaknesses. The program can open and convert TrueCrypt volumes.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No. Writes "LEGACY_VERACRYPT" driver settings to the registry.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download either the "Portable" or "Legacy Portable" (for WinXP-Win7) and launch
  2. When prompted to install, select the Extract option and select a folder of your choice
  3. Launch VeraCrypt.exe
For more information on the available options of running VeraCrypt in portable mode, read the section on Portable Mode.
Similar/alternative apps: TrueCrypt
What's new? See: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Release Notes.html
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2024-05-26 04:10

The release notes show: v1.26.10 (November 8th, 2023). After changing the entry on May 25 I noticed on the download page: Latest Stable Release - 1.26.7 (Sunday October 1st, 2023)
So I changed the entry again. v1.26.7 is the latest release and the correct release date is shown in the heading

giulia on 2024-05-26 09:20

@Ennovy

yes , you are right , i got it
sorry

AndTheWolf on 2024-11-12 20:28

Veracrypt has been unable to "open and convert TrueCrypt volumes" since TrueCrypt Mode support was removed in version 1.26.7.

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Qmmp v2.2.3 Updated

Midas on 4 Feb 2025
  • 41MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Qmmp (Qt-based MultiMedia Player) is a feature-rich player with support for most popular audio formats, global hot-keys, and various included sound enhancements. The program uses the familiar 3-window structure with spectrum analyzer, a 10-band equalizer, and playlist similar to Winamp.

The program includes tremendous skin support, including thousands from Winamp and the XMMS project.

Supports format conversion, visualization, lyrics, cover art, CUE sheets, tray control, CDDB and ReplayGain support, removable device detection and more. Also supported is a variety of plugins for stereo correction, crossfade, stereo-to-mono, etc.

Cross-platform (FreeBSD, Linux) and available in 26 world languages. A PortableApps version is also available.

Note: Support for older versions of Windows (< 10) can be found in the 1.7.x branch.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download and run the installer
  2. During installation, choose Portable configuration and select a folder of your choice
  3. Launch qmmp.exe

Optionally, you may delete unnecessary language files from translations sub-folder.
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1, AIMP, foobar2000, Spider Player Pro, Xion
What's new? Linux version changelog at https://www.linux-apps.com/p/1130990.
Latest comments
shnbwmn on 2016-07-24 13:02

Nice little player. The website has a page with plugins, but it's slightly misleading. The "Qmmp Plugin Pack" download directs to the player itself, and the others require building from source/installed dependencies.

Realist on 2016-10-06 16:25

Why do we another music player and that too which looks like WinAMP?

MIKLO on 2017-01-15 17:15

@Realist, I believe the more we have the better they will all get or they go away, after all competition makes the world go round. I would agree if all are the exact same then it is a waste, but coders usually try and add something more useful that the last version doesn't have. Just my thoughts. :)
MIKLO

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Subtitle Edit v4.0.11 Updated

Andrew Lee on 3 Feb 2025
  • 26MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Userfriendly

Subtitle Edit creates, edits, synchronizes, adjusts, repairs and helps translate subtitles. The program can also import and OCR vobsub and blu-ray image based subtitles (even from matroska/mp4 files).

Supports more than 200 subtitle formats and written in C#.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0+
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SubtitleEdit.exe.
What's new? See: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/blob/master/Changelog.txt.
Latest comments
tomcat on 2022-08-14 03:38

Version 3.6.7 is now available.

I take the opportunity to comment further that I have now tried the program on several occasions, always with good results without reading instructions. Though its interface does look a little intimidating at first, it's not all that difficult.
In particular,
Tools > Fix common errors… : converted a non-working document to a perfect srt.
Synchronization > Adjust all times (show earlier/later)… : was most useful.

lastaltoid on 2022-11-23 04:05

Version 3.6.10 available on 2022-11-21. Fixes missing dll file from v3.6.9.

SZKAMAN on 2023-11-20 13:44

v4.0.2 works great on my windows 10 machine.
Used it to fix the auto subtitles youtube creates.
The youtube video I downloaded using another portable found here:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2634
Youtube 3d Downloader. Also downloads the SRT file which I have been missing for many of my downloads.

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RegCool v2.022 Updated

Ennovy on 3 Feb 2025
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Feb 2025
  • Suggested by JohnW

RegCool is an advanced registry editor. It provides the complete functionality of Windows' own Regedit and has many powerful features that allow you to work faster and more efficiently with registry related tasks: multiple undo and redo; search and replace; compare registries; cut, copy and paste; drag and drop; easy and flexible Favorites management; editing '.REG' and '.HIVE-Files' in offline mode; registry snapshot; backup and restore; defragment, etc.

RegCool is available in multiple languages.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights, GDIPLUS.DLL, MSVCRT.DLL
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package (x32 or x64 according to your OS) and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RegCool.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Registry Commander
What's new?
  • Added silent uninstaller support
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Minor GUI improvements

Clibor v2.3.4E Updated

Ennovy on 2 Feb 2025
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by MakoSoft

Clibor is a feature-rich, customisable, and easy-to-use clipboard manager. It supports "set phrases" (possible to sort into groups and add memos) and changing of the format of the content within the clipboard history (regular expression of find and replace text, aligning similar pattern etc). The program offers different copy/paste modes (FIFO/LIFO), shortcut keys, incremental search, encryption (using a startup password), selection of multiple items, backup/restore and more.

The program can store up to 10,000 clipboard items.

Category:
Runs on: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 Clibor.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CLCL, ArsClip, Ditto
What's new? See: https://chigusa-web.com/en/clibor/history/
Latest comments
gbrao on 2022-09-29 06:19

Changelog since 2.2.1E :

ver 2.2.4E
Supports Spanish.

ver 2.2.3E
Supports Chinese (Simplified).
Fixed not to exit if hotkey registration fails at startup.

ver 2.2.2
Minor corrections.

ver 2.2.1E
Change the default font.

walnut on 2023-02-25 08:54

Clibor 2.3.0E released

Download page
https://chigusa-web.com/en/download/

hamasaki on 2023-03-21 20:57

Clibor 2.3.1E Released
https://chigusa-web.com/en/download/

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