Latest entries (500)

WifiInfoView v2.96 Updated

Andrew Lee on 15 Jan 2025
  • 404KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Checker

WifiInfoView scans the wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information about them. This includes Network Name (SSID), MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, Maximum Speed, Company Name, Router Model and Router Name (only for routers that provides this information) and more.

When you select a wireless network in the upper pane of this tool, the lower pane displays the Wi-Fi information elements received from this device in hexadecimal format. A summary mode is also available that displays a summary of all detected wireless networks, grouped by channel number, company that manufactured the router, PHY type, or the maximum speed.

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 WifiInfoView.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: WirelessNetView
What's new?
  • Updated the internal MAC addresses file.
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-04-03 15:20

Very helpful program, was able to find issue causing problems :)
MIKLO

pipperu on 2023-03-29 05:10

Why there is no download link for the 64-bit version?

Ennovy on 2023-03-29 06:41

@pipperu: Added the link, thanks.

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ShareX v17.0.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 15 Jan 2025
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

ShareX is a feature-rich screenshot utility that can grab a selected area with a single key and then edit, save to clipboard, drive and/or instantly upload them to 25+ different hosting services (posts to Imgur by default). ShareX can capture screenshots with variety of shapes including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, triangle, diamond, polygon and freehand. Supports screenshots with transparency and shadow, as well as those that require scrolling. In addition to images, the program can upload other file types, supporting uploads from the clipboard, a watched folder, as well as drag-and-drop.

Additional tools include a powerful screen audio+video recorder (MP4/WEBM or animated GIF format), color picker, ruler, FTP client, monitor test, file hash checker, QR code generator+reader, image effects and much more.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2+
Stealth: ? No. Log file saved to AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ShareX.exe.

Optionally,
  • Delete unnecessary language files
  • Enable portable video encoding via Task Settings - Screen Recorder - Screen recording options, clicking Download and then entering "ShareX\Tools\ffmpeg.exe" for the FFmpeg path
Similar/alternative apps: PicPick, Greenshot
What's new? See: https://getsharex.com/changelog
Latest comments
Jaex on 2016-09-29 09:17

@smaragdus fixed portable zip structure now.

smaragdus on 2017-03-22 14:26

ShareX is not stealth, it creates "ShareX.exe.log" in AppData (C:\Users\UserNAme\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs).

__philippe on 2018-11-09 09:11

ShareX v12.3.0 notable enhancement:

Added APNG encoding support to screen recording

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MyImgur v3.95 Updated

rbon on 15 Jan 2025
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

MyImgur is a tool to quickly upload pictures to Imgur.com, is able to send multiple files in a queue, crop an area of the screen, clipboard, or capture the active window (by default F11). Once uploaded, the program can copy a link to the file directly to your clipboard.

The program can also auto-resize pictures and/or lower quality automatically if file exceeds a given size to speed-up uploads on slow connections. Captures can be stored from cropping or paste and supports multiple monitors in any configurations (spanned horz/vertically etc.).

Functional in Linux via Wine.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Choose one of the following:

    • Launch MyImgur.exe /portable from 32-bit or 64-bit folder (for 64-bit OS)

      OR

    • Launch MyImgur Portable 32-bit.bat or MyImgur Portable 64-bit.bat (for 64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: ShareX
What's new? See:
https://myimgur.eden.fm/changelog/
Latest comments
Checker on 2014-08-07 18:02

Version update is: v3.7 Beta -> v3.71 Beta (not v3.8 Beta).
Sorry for typo.

joby_toss on 2025-01-13 11:50

This one stopped working for me. Anyone else?

hamasaki on 2025-01-15 20:31

Download link is a 404. Link provided on the website is a 403.

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Tixati v3.32 Updated

rbon on 15 Jan 2025
  • 277MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Ruby

Tixati is an easy-to-use file sharing program utilizing the distributed, peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol. The program includes a clean, simple interface with the notable ability to prioritize files within a downloading torrent so you can get the first song or video downloaded and previewed quickly. Also supports customized download folders by file type, bandwidth throttling, transfer visualizations, encryption, prioritization, RSS support, IP filtering, DHT and magnet links.

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

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 Edition" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete tixati_Linux32bit and tixati_Linux64bit. Launch tixati_Windows32bit.exe or tixati_Windows64bit.exe (for 64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: BitComet, qBittorent, uTorrent, Halite
What's new? See: https://www.tixati.com/news/
Latest comments
__philippe on 2017-02-24 21:12

@billon

Thanks for your quietly updating Tixati's main entry, following the above agitation...;-)

  • "Uncompressed size": revised total footprint of relevant Win PE binaries
  • "How-to-extract": added pertinent advice to discard irrelevant Unix binaries

__philippe on 2017-02-24 23:33

@smaragdus
(Tixati is not "72MB (uncompressed)"- it is either 38 MB (x32) or 36 MB (x64).)

Quite so, strictly speaking...

BUT...

Currently, the "Uncompressed size" field is formally defined in the entry form as:
   "Total size of application files when fully unarchived/uncompressed".

We don't really want to open a whole 'nother can of worms about what exactly ought to be the appropriate scope of the "uncompressed size" field definition, with implication for every current entry in the Data Base, do we ?

...;-)

rbon on 2020-10-01 15:17

Tixati 2.76 released.
- News: https://www.tixati.com/news/
- Direct download portable: https://download2.tixati.com/download/tixati-2.76-1.portable.zip

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DUDE (DUplicates DEtector) v2.0235.630 New

joby_toss on 13 Jan 2025
  • 183MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by webfork

DUDE is a cross-platform GUI utility for finding duplicated files, delete or link them to save space.
Features:

  • Scanning for duplicate files in multiple designated folders (up to 8). Optional "Cross paths" display mode
  • Optional command line parameters to start scanning immediately or integrate Dude with your favorite file manager
  • Two synchronized panels: groups of duplicates and directory of selected file
  • Two stage processing: interactive marking of files with multiple criteria and taking action on marked files (Move to Trash/Recycle Bin, delete, hard-link, soft-link, create windows .lnk shortcut file)
  • Support for regular expressions or glob expressions syntax
  • Searching for duplicates based on the hash of the file content. Different filenames or extensions do not affect the search results
  • Works on Linux and Windows

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the windows.portable.ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch dude.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AllDup, Easy Duplicate File Finder

PDF-XChange Editor v10.5.0.393 Updated

Ennovy on 14 Jan 2025
  • 150MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Midas

PDF-XChange Editor is a fast, feature-rich PDF viewer and editor with a tabbed interface. The program includes edition of text-based PDFs, OCR of images to fully text-searchable, full document spellchecking, rotate/crop, comments/annotations, QR codes and more. You can apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects and add/edit hyperlinks.

The program supports import and export to text or image (BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc.).

Note: The free PDF-XChange Editor lacks some features present in the registered version (payware). Some "Pro" features can be used, but will add a watermark upon saving.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / 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 PDFXEdit.exe.

Optionally:
  • Disable most available "Pro" features via the File menu, select Preferences and choose Registration. Check the box "Hide all licensed features from toolbars and menus".
  • Additional language packs are available from the OCR language page. Extract these files to a temporary folder, launch the setup process and, when prompted, select the application folder (the same folder location as the PDFXEdit.exe).
Similar/alternative apps: Foxit Reader, PDF XChange Viewer
Xelitan PDF Reader (8MB)
What's new? See: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/history
Latest comments
vubogia82 on 2024-05-16 13:59

more than 70% free functions for basic tasks without any ads, the software is really great, can edit text without watermark, if you just need basic viewing and editing then it wins For you, advanced functions need to purchase a license.

portablesw1123 on 2024-11-13 05:36

The download links should be changed. It seems that pdf-xchange.com doesn't offer portable version downloads now. They are available on https://pdf-xchange.eu/DL/pdf-xchange-editor.htm

Andrew Lee on 2024-11-16 00:42

@portablesw1123: Seems like they still do, under the dropdown at the download page?

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Stickies v10.2a Updated

Ennovy on 14 Jan 2025

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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HWiNFO v8.20 Updated

gbrao on 13 Jan 2025
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Baas

HWiNFO is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tool supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Includes system health monitoring (Thermal, Voltage, Fan, Power), basic benchmarks and multiple report formats (text, CSV, XML, HTML, MHTML).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HWiNFO32.exe or HWiNFO64.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: SIV
What's new? See: https://www.hwinfo.com/version-history/
Latest comments
DarkShadow on 2016-02-09 12:39

v5.20 (2016-02-09) released !

MIKLO on 2018-03-10 10:27

Very nice, this software will give all the info you could ever want, at least 4me :)Thanks to the maker for all the hard work to bring us this FREE software to use.
MIKLO

DzejPy on 2023-10-15 06:13

From version 7 (2021-03-09) there are more licenses:
HWINFO 32 and DOS is freeware
HWINFO64 is freeware for personal and non-commercial use - for other uses there is the HWINFO64Pro version
see: https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ or https://www.hwinfo.com/version-history/

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Revo Uninstaller Free v2.5.7 Updated

Ennovy on 13 Jan 2025
  • 33MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Island Boy

Revo Uninstaller Free helps you remove any unwanted application installed on your computer. Additional clean-up tools include an auto-start manager, Windows tools manager, junk files cleaner, browsers history cleaner, office history cleaner, Windows history cleaner, unrecoverable delete tool and evidence remover.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RevoUPort.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: Zsoft Uninstaller
What's new? See: https://www.revouninstaller.com/version-history/
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2016-12-14 22:23

Also available on Portable Apps com (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/revo_uninstaller_portable), both 32 and 64 in one package

MIKLO on 2018-03-26 14:31

I've been using Revo for a very long time and it does everything I want and need it to do. I have not seen any other Un-installer anywhere near as good as Revo. Thanks to the makers for some great software, I appreciate your hard work, and it’s portable :)

MIKLO

Pendrive on 2023-06-06 17:46

Version is now at 2.4.5.

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CHK v5.60 Updated

gbrao on 12 Jan 2025
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by encode

CHK is simple checksum program that can verify downloaded files from the Internet, hash your files to ensure integrity and help detect duplicates. Supports drag-and-drop and most popular hash protocols including CRC-16/32/64, ED2K, MD4/5, SHA-1/256/512/3, BLAKE2sp/b, BLAKE3 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 "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch chk.exe.
What's new? CHK v5.60

What's new:

CHK now keeps both window size and position (requested feature). Unfortunately, this required to change CFG format once again. Sorry guys!
Experimental feature: Now you can change all 5 colors:
FNT - Font
BG1 - Background 1
BG2 - Background 2 (Band color)
HL1 - Highlight 1 (Same hash)
HL2 - Highlight 2 (Clipboard)
Latest comments
gbrao on 2024-10-27 00:55

32-bit version of v5.50 also available.

gbrao on 2024-10-27 07:40

updated change log link.
Note :
Sorry for changing the CFG file format once again, but now it has many future-proof features - including it keeps all - Font, Background, Band, Highlight and Clipboard colors - so in the future you can change them all (e.g. create dark theme)

gbrao on 2025-01-12 23:48

v5.60, note :

CHK now keeps both window size and position (requested feature). Unfortunately, this required to change CFG format once again. Sorry guys!

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ToDoList v9.0.2.1 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Jan 2025
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by leloo

ToDoList is a hierarchical task manager that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces, which makes it ideal for IT-related projects as well as more general activities. Each task can be given a wide variety of attributes including priority, risk, color, category and many more. Viewable in tree, list or calendar format and includes native XML support for custom reporting.

Created lists can be exported to a variety of formats including HTML, ICS (calendar), speadsheet and more. Supports remote todolists and encryption for security.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: "Check for update" requires administrator privileges.
Stealth: ? No. Registers some components in the registry:
HKCU\Software\Abstractspoon
License: The Eclipse Public License 1.0
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch ToDoList.exe
  3. Select Language
  4. If not already selected, choose Ini File for settings storage

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files at \todolist_exe\Resources\Translations
What's new? Version changelogs posted at: https://abstractspoon.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=5.
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2023-02-09 21:37

Download link doesn't work. "There is no file called todolist_exe.zip on this workspace."

dmiranda on 2024-11-24 19:55

Hi, I've been using this app for some time. No writing to registry (Abstractspoon) in my set up.

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Quick Access Popup v11.6.4.2.1 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Jan 2025
  • 16MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by shnbwmn

Quick Access Popup (QAP) lets you move like a breeze between your frequently used folders, documents, applications, webpages etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch QuickAccessPopup-32-bit.exe or QuickAccessPopup-64-bit.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Folders Popup
What's new? See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/change-log/
Also:https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=4
Latest comments
Saboo on 2020-03-18 08:06

I am completely lost on a computer without this app. One click emails, instant access to folders, apps, files.....priceless app!

mcodex on 2020-07-09 02:17

Great piece of software. Maybe the best of its kind and I tried a few. Other users here have very well pointed out its strengths and features in any environment, corporate included. Kudos to the developer!

Ennovy on 2021-09-07 01:01

Verion 11.5 released:
- QAP returns to freeware/donorware model
- remove license validation and various license related menu items or labels
- remove donation/get license incentives in main menu and tray menu (QAP icon menu in notification zone)
- add a "Make donation" menu item under "Help" menu (linking to Paypal only for the moment)
- fix bug with the Check for update link in "Options, General" tab

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Digital Clock v5.0.5 Updated

joby_toss on 12 Jan 2025
  • 55MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Digital Clock is a feature-rich yet easy to customize desktop clock. It supports skins, customizable clock color, texture instead of color, zoom, signals (alarms, hourly chimes), tray control, customizable time format, start-up with system, auto-update and more. Additional features can be enabled via plug-ins.

Digital Clock is a cross-platform program available for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "win64" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DigitalClock5.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary translation files.
Similar/alternative apps: TheAeroClock
What's new? https://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalclock4/files/5.0.5/README.md/download
Latest comments
LonerD on 2018-12-05 05:46

Size 42MB, Win 6.x+ only... Terrible.
My choice - old DeskTopClock 1.81. Only 373 Kb. Less functional, but still cool.

PAFuser on 2024-10-04 15:03

Version 5 available as digital_clock_5-x64.msi (only 64 bit), use link to website. Universal Extractor will extract. Seems to work fine on windows 11. Similar to version 4. Only difference found is 4 is in taskbar when running, 5 is not. Both are in system tray.

PAFuser on 2024-11-13 08:25

Although not a replacement for windows 11 clock, it does cover clock, and when background and transparency with mouse over used, allows access to calendar, etc. Larger font and date in different format is what I wanted. Disappears when video is in full screen.

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DesktopOK v11.51 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Jan 2025
  • 674KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Jan 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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PhraseExpress v17.0.112 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Jan 2025
  • 175MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by JohnW

PhraseExpress is a keyboard macro utility that manages all your frequently used text phrases from a taskbar icon and allows you to paste them into any application with a single mouse click, a keyboard shortcut, or a text macro command. The program is ideal for email reply templates, signatures, addresses and any other information that you find yourself typing repeatedly.

PhraseExpress also includes powerful macro functions to launch programs, files or email messages, offers support for dynamic macro commands and comes with a unique text-prediction feature.

Category:
Runs on:Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the "Portable Edition" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch phraseexpress.exe -portable.
Similar/alternative apps: Texter
What's new? See: https://www.phraseexpress.com/download/changelog/#client
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2017-01-10 18:00

Most recent version is 12.0.124

Ennovy on 2017-01-10 18:30

@AndTheWolf: Thanks. The version history however is not updated

bartelsmedia on 2020-08-17 04:38

You can find the version history here:
Windows version:
https://www.phraseexpress.com/download/changelog/

Mac version:
https://www.phraseexpress.com/mac/download/changelog/

Enjoy!

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PrivaZer v4.0.97 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Jan 2025
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Jan 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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CudaText 1.220.6 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Jan 2025
  • 31MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by billon

CudaText is a code editor with a clean, tabbed interface and side-panels. Includes split view, code folding, hotkeys, theme support, color picker and much more. The program supports 300+ syntaxes and add-ons written in Python, as well as some IDE features if plugins are used.

The program is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac and Linux. Settings are modified either via options dialogs, or alternatively, by manually editing text config files (JSON format).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / 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: MPL 2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch cudatext.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: SynWrite, Atom Portable
What's new? See: https://cudatext.github.io/history.txt
Latest comments
Midas on 2023-02-13 09:33

@FileHandler: It would be helpful -- at least for me -- if you could document your findings and settings in CudaText's forum topic... TiA

FileHandler on 2023-02-25 16:32

@Midas: Will happily do it, just give me a few days...

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MDB Viewer Plus v2.67 Updated

Andrew Lee on 10 Jan 2025
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by J-P-W

MDB Viewer Plus is a tabbed viewer/editor for Microsoft Access MDB and ACCDB database files. It provides a quick and easy way to create, view, edit and search/query MDB/ACCDB files without having Microsoft Access installed. It is not a full database development solution but allows you to view/edit MDB/ACCDB files without an Access license.

Imports and exports to a variety of formats.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Requires Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) to run (available by default on Windows 98SE and above).
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MDBPlus.exe.
What's new? See:
http://www.alexnolan.net/news/
Latest comments
webfork on 2011-04-12 19:07

Worked like a charm with an Access database. Saved me plenty of time trying to get the info through some other import tool.

lautrepay on 2012-03-13 01:12

@NickR: Updated. Thanks!

Nh on 2018-07-10 03:12

Not fully unicode (at least for field names).
Also his version can't change and save any setting - simply it does not create mdbplus.ini.

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calibre v7.24 Updated

Ennovy on 10 Jan 2025
  • 403MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

calibre is a feature-rich e-book library management application with a variety of useful functions including viewer, addendums, editor, online book and news search/download. The software can perform detailed searches, convert e-books to device-specific formats, batch metadata tools, and a content server for online access to your collection.

The program syncs automatically with many different physical devices. It supports a variety of ebook and document formats.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux. Alternatively, Calibre Portable and an outdated X-calibre, as well as a WinXP-compatible version are also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Requires 64-bit Windows
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\Trolltech
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the "portable installer" and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch calibre-portable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: TEBookConverter
What's new? See: https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

For details on the major changes in calibre between 7.0 and 6.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen
Latest comments
IndioBB on 2022-07-19 21:00

Calibre 6.x not runs on Vista / Win7 and Win8

Ennovy on 2022-07-21 03:41

Thanks IndioBB. I changed the entry accordingly

hamasaki on 2024-01-31 11:30

Also writes entries to "HKCU\Software\calibre".

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Agent Ransack Lite v2022 Build 3503 Updated

Ennovy on 10 Jan 2025
  • 156MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by portackager

Agent Ransack (aka File Locator) Lite looks for files and file contents on your PC or network drives, with filters for dates and size. Includes themes, tabbed search entries, preview window, and search priority. Search types supported include wildcard, boolean, and regex on both filenames and file internals. You can import/export search criteria and export detailed search results.

Finds details inside standard text files, as well as PDF and Office formats. Note that Win7 users will need the Filter Pack (not portable) to search Office files, as described on the website.

A pro version is available with additional features. Note that "FileLocator Pro" is just a rename of this program.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Liteware
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" installer (either 32 or 64-bit) from the homepage under "Other Downloads"
  2. Extract to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch AgentRansack.exe
  4. When prompted, choose "Lite" (free)
Similar/alternative apps: DocFetcher, SearchMyFiles
What's new? See: https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/information/#version-history
Latest comments
PapaiMark on 2022-07-10 21:58

125MB for a simple search file!!! Well, "FindIt" from 2005 does the same with only 800KB.

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ProcessKO v6.46 Updated

Andrew Lee on 9 Jan 2025

ProcessKO is a small useful tool designed to quickly kill any running or hanging process / program.

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:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a blank text file and name it ProcessKO.ini
  3. Launch ProcessKO_Win98.exe, ProcessKO_Unicode.exe or ProcessKO_x64.exe
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/ProcessKO/History
Latest comments
__philippe on 2013-12-08 13:44

ProcessKO v 3.21 released.

fullbug on 2014-03-21 22:22

Thanx! Great little program....

MIKLO on 2016-10-01 18:27

Really like this pgm small and powerful, does exactly what I want when I want, what a concept.
MIKLO

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OnlyStopWatch v6.46 Updated

Andrew Lee on 9 Jan 2025
  • 72KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by guinness

OnlyStopWatch is a simple time monitor that includes a stop-watch and countdown timer. The program can display the hour and milliseconds and several background options are available.

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 OnlyStopWatch_p.exe or OnlyStopWatch_x64_p.exe (for 64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: Timer, Ten Timer
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/OnlyStopWatch/History
Latest comments
__philippe on 2013-08-03 11:25

Alternative: Rob Keir's minuscule Timer.exe (8k), including a more subdued display.
http://keir.net/timer.html

__philippe

__philippe on 2013-08-04 16:15

Please see also Timer related forum post:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=849&hilit=timer+keir

__philippe

Checker on 2013-08-04 19:44

@ __philippe: Timer added under "Similar/alternative apps:"

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ESEDatabaseView v1.76 Updated

Andrew Lee on 9 Jan 2025
  • 137KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by Checker

ESEDatabaseView reads and displays the data stored inside a database used by a variety of Microsoft programs known as Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database (aka Jet Blue or a .edb file). It displays a list of all tables available in the opened database file, allows you to choose the desired table to view, and then when you choose a table, it displays all records found in the selected table.

The program also allows you to easily choose one or more records, and then export them into a variety of formats including CSV, HTML and XML, or copy and then paste them into a spreadsheet program.

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 ESEDatabaseView.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: In some strings, ESEDatabaseView displayed compressed string without decomrpessing it.
  • Fixed bug: In some circumstances, ESEDatabaseView failed to extract the correct string from the database.
  • Fixed bug: When 'Auto Detect 64-bit Date/Time Value' option was turned on, ESEDatabaseView displayed some strings as date/time values.
Latest comments
Midas on 2013-01-15 12:17

In case (like me) you're left wondering what is this good for, here's a quote from the Wikipedia relevant article:

"ESE is notably a core of Microsoft Exchange Server and Active Directory. Its purpose is to allow applications to store and retrieve data via indexed and sequential access. Windows Mail and Desktop Search in the Windows Vista operating system also make use of ESE to store indexes and property information respectively."

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

MIKLO on 2017-01-04 16:36

Well that sure clears that up lol, but really like many apps a user has a need and finds a solution that works for them and then passes along their work for others to freely use. In my mind that's the way its supposed to be.
MIKLO

Spacegirl on 2020-07-23 18:41

I think this is a very useful application

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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition v134.0 Updated

Ennovy on 9 Jan 2025
  • 468MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Eu Gene Lim

Firefox Browser is a fast, powerful and secure web browser that supports open standards and many of the latest web technologies. The program includes smart search, bookmark management, web development tools and built-in download manager. Smart content blocking for ads and trackers is available in both standard and private browsing modes.

Versions available for Mac, Android, iOS and Linux with synchronisation of passwords and browser state across devices. Additional features and customisations are available via the add-on system, which allows for thousands of specialized functions.

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is a special build licensed by Mozilla and includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds and selects the appropriate one for each PC. Beta, Developer, Extended Release, and Win 7/8/8.1 and XP/Vista versions are also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Launcher: GPL, Program: MPL v. 2.0
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FirefoxPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Pale Moon Portable, SeaMonkey Portable
What's new? See: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releasenotes/
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2020-06-11 12:24

64 bit system: save 181 MB by deleting firefox folder, and renaming firefox64 to firefox. Beta, standard, and ESR work fine.

AndTheWolf on 2022-09-22 14:45

Now at version 105

AndTheWolf on 2024-03-21 14:28

Now at version 124.0

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KeyNote NF v2.0.3.01 Updated

Ennovy on 11 Jan 2025
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by joby_toss

KeyNote NF is a tabbed notebook that is particularly suitable for writing and organizing free-form information, especially those that fit naturally within a tree-based structure, such as lists or outlines. It supports rich text and images, multi-level notes and strong encryption. A search function quickly locates information you are looking for. Notes can also be securely encrypted using IDEA or Blowfish.

KeyNote NF is a fork of the original early 2000s' open-source Keynote, which is no longer being developed. It adds many new features, including check boxes on children of selected nodes, hidden nodes, alarms on nodes, better treatment of tables, improved treatment of links, multi-language support, automatic compression, etc.

Category:
Runs on: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: MPL 2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch keynote.exe.
What's new? See: https://github.com/dpradov/keynote-nf/releases
Latest comments
User2100 on 2024-01-28 07:03

I love this program. Glad someone picked it and started updating it again, if only so it remains running on future hardware and OSes.

FileHandler on 2024-01-28 15:52

Been using it for over a decade. Elaborate export feature that turns tree branches into headings, customizable key shortcuts, BG-colors, fonts, icons...
And with recent improvements, it got better than ever. Lots of hidden features, if you take the time to dig deeper.

Alternative margins, for instance, to name just one example. You set them up in keynote.ini, then toggle them on via View > Alternative Margins. Allows to set up a distraction-free writing area with plenty of white space left and right, when coupled with hidden sidebars.

kanu on 2024-12-08 02:54

This program was great before, now it's superb. Don't let the 90s look deter you from a very capable AND light note taking app.
Those Trillium, Joplin... have nothing on this one.

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Don't Sleep v9.69 Updated

rbon on 9 Jan 2025
  • 511KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by joby_toss

Don't Sleep helps prevent system Shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart operations. This is useful to temporarily disable automatic power-saving tools without modifying any system settings. Works great for running a presentation, defragmenting a disk, or encoding a large file.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
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 DontSleep_p.exe or DontSleep_x64_p.exe (for 64-bit OS).
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep/History
Latest comments
rbon on 2020-12-02 15:38

Don't Sleep 7.55 released https://www.softwareok.com/?Download=DontSleep

shawnadam on 2023-01-22 00:59

Does this stop automatic restarts after windows updates?

tomcat on 2023-09-12 03:38

Settings > Power Options > Power & sleep > Sleep (&/or Screen): select value from 1 min to never.

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WordWeb Free v10.50 Updated

Ennovy on 7 Jan 2025
  • 41MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by motormaroon

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia. It includes full dictionary and thesaurus for the various English variants including American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian and global.

A pro version available with additional features.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Greenware - free if you only take one return flight in any 12 month period
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and launch
  2. Enter a destination folder of your choice
  3. Click on the Advanced options... button, and ensure the Install as portable app check box is selected
  4. The program will automatically launch but in the future, run wweb32.exe

Optionally, delete uninst.exe and launch
Similar/alternative apps: TheSage
What's new? See: https://wordweb.info/users.html
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2022-11-13 18:42

It appears 10.21 is current Free version, 10.23 is Pro version update.

Ennovy on 2022-11-14 00:40

@PAFuser: Thanks, I changed it back to 10.21 until the new free version is released

Pendrive on 2023-06-27 13:45

It is now at v10.33.

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Sizer v4.0 New

Midas on 7 Jan 2025
  • 228KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Apr 2020
  • Suggested by Midas

Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots for documentation, using Sizer allows you to easily maintain the same window size across screen grabs.

Sizer 4.0 has been completely rewritten to improve compatibility with modern applications including Windows 10 Apps. Sizer 4.0 is less intrusive than previous versions and therefore is more stable. Unfortunately this increased stability comes at a small price, some infrequently used features have been removed as a result.

Note: Further feature info and previous 32-bit Sizer v3.32 still available from https://www.brianapps.net/sizer/.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: 1. Download the binaries only ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
2. In that folder create a text file called sizer.xml with the following content.
3. Launch sizer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: WinSize2

Betterbird v128.5.2esr New

Midas on 7 Jan 2025
  • 324MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by fang-face

Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will.

Betterbird is better than Thunderbird in three ways: It contains new features exclusive to Betterbird, it contains bug fixes exclusive to Betterbird and it contains fixes that Thunderbird may ship at a later stage. [...]

Easy adoption: You can install Betterbird at the same time as Thunderbird and run them on the same profile. That means that you can try out Betterbird with zero hassle, and go back to Thunderbird if you don't like it - which is unlikely. Please read the fine print on our support page.

Category:
Runs on:Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Mozilla Public License v2.0
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 'BetterbirdLauncher.exe'.
Similar/alternative apps: Thunderbird, sylpheed
What's new? Release announcements at https://betterbird.eu/releasenotes/.

TextWorx v1.6 Updated

Ennovy on 6 Jan 2025
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by webfork

TextWorx lets you access a large suite of text manipulation functions within any text editor or browser. It provides a universal context menu and custom toolbar/s that you invoke with a hotkey. To use, select the text that you wish to manipulate, then open the context menu and select the function that you wish to run the selected text against.

The things you can do includes: insert various date formats, change case to various different formats, delete duplicate lines, HTML tags, multiple regex search-and-replace etc. Note that you can easily add your own functions by editing a INI file, so it can be fully customized to your own needs.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TextWorx.exe.
What's new? See: https://www.dcmembers.com/bgmcoder/textworx-updated-to-version-1-6/
Latest comments
TxT-man on 2025-01-07 07:49

A very handy tool that adds many(!) functions to all text editors.
Nice to see that BGMCoder is back after a long silence.

BGM on 2025-01-08 09:28

Thanks for your kind mention!

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cPicture v4.5 Updated

Ennovy on 6 Jan 2025
  • 15MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Lesmo16

cPicture is an image viewer that supports both images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, RAW) and other media files (AVI, QT, MOV, MPEG, MP3, WMV). You can also use it to remove red-eye from your photos, as well as create a HTML index for your collection.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Some settings are written to the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\TheCloud\cPicture\Workspace
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. You may also want to download the plugins to support RAW and TIFF files, as well as additional color profiles
  3. Create an empty file called cpicture.config in the same folder so that settings will be written there
  4. Launch cPicture.exe
What's new? See: http://thecloudsite.net/cpicture/blog/index.php
Latest comments
Nh on 2008-01-13 20:01

This is the new address:
http://cpicture.net/en/index.html

juverax on 2021-12-13 13:30

Softpedia: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/cPicture.shtml
has an entry for an application named cPicture v.3.8.6 that is Freeware and Donationware

Web Site: http://cpicture.thecloudsite.net/

VirusTotal Score:
cPicture.exe 2-70
cpp_tiff_png.dll 1-68
All the other files are clean

Assuming that cPicture is not harmful
Unzip and run cPicture.exe (It seems that it is a no install app)
This application is very fast.
It leaves a couple of keys in the registry.

The cPicture v.3.8.6 and cPicture LE v1.6.x seem to be developed by the same developer(s).

Ennovy on 2024-01-20 14:47

cPicture now at version 3.8.8 and it is freeware/donationware.

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TagScanner v6.1.19 Updated

Ennovy on 6 Jan 2025
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by scamme

TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of most audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Album info available via online databases like gnudb, Discogs or MusicBrainz and includes a built-in audio player.

Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4 (iTunes) tags. Includes powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features and a playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML, Excel or any user-defined format.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
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 Tagscan.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new? See: https://www.xdlab.ru/en/history.htm
Latest comments
EL_DeLino on 2014-09-01 19:36

v5.1.652 is Online!

http://xdlab.ru/en/download.htm

Checker on 2014-09-01 21:32

@ EL_DeLino: Thanks ... and updated ;)

zorro on 2021-04-27 05:55

Note: starting with actual version 6.18 TagScanner requires the VC-/Universal Runtimes. I stumbled upon because this runtimes cannot be installed on my system. Version 6.17 however works fine.
For systems without this runtimes the workaround could be to copy the runtimes from LibreOffice or Firefox and place them in the root folder of TagScanner (x86 or x64 accordingly).

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RegCool v2.020 Updated

Ennovy on 6 Jan 2025
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jan 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?
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Minor GUI improvements

CLaunch v4.06 New

joby_toss on 2 Jan 2025
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Nov 2023
  • Suggested by webfork

CLaunch is the program launcher that has the following features:

  • You can select multiple operations to display the launcher panel from more than 100 kinds of methods such as double-click on the desktop, cursor movement to the screen edges or hotkeys.
  • Launcher panel will hide when the cursor leaves from there, so it doesn't interfere with your work.
  • You can launch the registered items directly by hotkeys and mouse operations without displaying the launcher panel.
  • It supports shortcut key and item search by keyword input, so you can launch the registered items only with the keyboard.
  • Registered items can be grouped on a page-by-page basis, and you can switch the display page by the mouse wheel rotation.
  • You can also subdivide registered items on the pages by creating the submenus.
  • The page-specific design setting and overlay icon display make it easy to identify the target page and item.
  • It can be used for portable by relative path specification.
  • You can change the appearance of launcher panel by applying the skins.
Note: To enable automatic relative path support check the box for Register items in relative path under Options/Others. And if you want the settings to be saved independent of the user account name, check the box for Single user mode.

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: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CLaunch.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AutoRun LWMenu, Qsel, SideSlide

WinDirStat v2.2.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 5 Jan 2025
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Marc

WinDirStat provides a visual and statistical representation of disk usage, as well as cleanup tools. It reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: directory list, extension list, and tree map. Its built-in cleanup actions include open, show properties, delete as well as user-defined ones.

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

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Windows registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Seifert\WinDirStat
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The download contains a 32-bit and a 64-bit version
  3. Launch windirstat.exe
Similar/alternative apps: WizTree
What's new? See: https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Latest comments
ghalandar on 2024-10-23 02:05

After first launch, the user should go to Options->Settings and check "Run in portable mode" on General tab.

Midas on 2024-10-23 09:14

FYI, WinDirStat changelog is at https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

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Shutter Encoder v18.7 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Jan 2025
  • 259MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by webfork

Shutter Encoder converts videos, audio files, and images. It's particularly targeted to video editors with a host of features, including:

  • Converting between various video and audio formats
  • Extracting specific portions of videos or audio files
  • Adding logos or watermarks
  • Adjusting video/audio quality through encoding settings
  • Analyzing audio loudness

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux and Mac.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Java Runtime (included)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Create a blank file called settings.xml in the same folder. Launch Shutter Encoder.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Handbrake
What's new? See: https://www.shutterencoder.com/changelog.txt

PointerStick v6.46 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Jan 2025
  • 829KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Checker

PointerStick modifies the mouse arrow to appear as a virtual pointer stick. This is helpful for presentations to highlight content and the size, shape and other details of the pointer can be customized.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create blank text file and name it PointerStick.ini
  3. Launch PointerStick.exe or PointerStick_x64.exe
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/PointerStick/History
Latest comments
Daneel on 2012-07-03 18:26

But my arrow doesn't disappear with the stick.
It is possible to have the stick without original pointer with some effect for every cursor? Like normal, text, link cursor etc.

rogerthedodger on 2012-10-27 02:51

Yes agreed would be more useable if the original arrow was to disappear whilst the stick was on show. I do however like software by this guy, and couldnt live without "always mouse wheel" which is what microsoft should have originally had.

MIKLO on 2016-08-23 14:35

Since I don't see as good as I once did (old eyes)I'm always interested in a way to make a pointer BIGGER. Thanks.
MIKLO

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Blank And Secure v7.97 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Jan 2025
  • 135KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by guinness

Blank And Secure is a basic tool for permanently deleting files from your hard drive by overwriting them. The program includes drag-and-drop capability, multiple overwrites for greater security and a free space wipe feature to help prevent recovery of files already deleted.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a blank text file and name it BlankAndSecure.ini
  3. Launch one of the following (based on Operating System):
    • ANSI version (Win9x/ME): BlankAndSecure_Win98.exe
    • Unicode version (WinNT or above, 32-bit): BlankAndSecure.exe
    • 64-bit: BlankAndSecure_x64.exe
Similar/alternative apps: WipeFile
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/BlankAndSecure/History
Latest comments
Beeber on 2015-06-05 18:43

I use shredder.exe. It is less than 150kb and fast. As I work, I can move files to be deleted into a 'new folder', planted anywhere. When I am done, shredder.exe takes the 'new folder', and seconds later, it is gone. Loading individual files works fine, too.

LonerD on 2018-12-10 08:45

Unicode support- partially. Author doesn't want implement fully support. Some months ago I reported about bug - program can't work with Unicode file names from command line. No answer, no fix...

OGRan on 2024-04-08 07:07

The files are still v7.67. I notified the author.

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TreeSheets Jan 4 2025 Updated

Ennovy on 4 Jan 2025
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jan 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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Imagine v1.7.3 Updated

lintalist on 4 Jan 2025
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by infimum

Imagine is a lightweight, fast and easy to use image viewer with basic graphics and animation edit features. Also includes screen capture, thumbnail browser, slideshow and metadata disclosure. Conversion tools include batch format change to dozens of formats and lossless JPEG changes (rotate and flip).

Additional formats support available through plugins.

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:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete Total Commander plugins and unnecessary language files
  3. Create a file named Imagine.ini with the following content:

    [BrowserOption]
    ThumbnailDirectory=2

  4. Launch Imagine.exe or Imagine64.exe
Similar/alternative apps: IrfanView
What's new? See: https://www.nyam.pe.kr/dev/imagine/whatsnew/
Latest comments
filobus on 2023-09-25 12:32

On site download link doesn't work (anyway, as it is on github, I found that link: https://github.com/nyam1003/imagine)

Hegel on 2023-10-08 18:55

This is impressively fast when it comes to handling DDS files.

lintalist on 2024-02-25 07:15

@Midas any specific ones, works for with various ones I tried.

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NewFileTime v7.44 Updated

rbon on 3 Jan 2025
  • 424KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by guinness

NewFileTime is a small but effective tool that provides you easy access to correct or manipulate any of the timestamps for any file and folder.

This is useful for other tools that rely upon timestamps (archiving and automation programs) or removing indicators that a file was modified recently (for security).

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:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty text file and name it NewFileTime.ini
  3. Launch NewFileTime.exe(ANSI) or NewFileTime_uc.exe(Unicode) or NewFileTime_x64.exe for 64-bit
Similar/alternative apps: Touch      (CLI 45KB) https://stevemiller.net/downloads/ctb11w32.zip
Filetouch (CLI 16KB) https://tinyurl.com/FileTouch
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/NewFileTime/History
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2016-08-25 12:28

It works but its not the most user friendly app I've ever seen, but 2B fair it did change my file time with a little experimenting.
MIKLO

Wolfghost on 2016-12-04 22:45

So why it suddently write to appdata roaming too??

Special on 2017-03-14 01:20

"So why it suddently write to appdata roaming too??"

Notices this too, so it's not portable?

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OBS Studio v31.0.0 Updated

joby_toss on 2 Jan 2025
  • 449MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by webfork

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio is a powerful and flexible screen recording and screencasting tool. The program includes real-time recording, broadcasting, and audio mixing and layouts. The "scene" system allows building custom input settings with numerous audio and video sources (multiple microphones, webcam, applications, screens etc.). Available filters allow for automatic, live filtering including crop, color correction, sharpen, chroma key, audio gain and more.

Cross-platform with versions available for Mac and Linux. Alternatively, PortableApps' OBS Portable is also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder.
Note: At this time, files used within the scene collection (images, media) are not portable, even when in portable mode. If you plan on relocating the portable instance, you will need to either modify the scene collection JSON file manually, or use a generic path common on all your devices.
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice;
  2. Either place an empty portable_mode or portable_mode.txt file in the root directory and open obs64.exe in [bin/64bit];
  3. Or, launch [bin/64bit/obs64.exe] using the --portable flag.
Similar/alternative apps: ShareX, Easy Screencast Recorder
What's new? 31.0 New Features
  • Added NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur [pkviet]
  • Added preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator [cg2121/Warchamp7]
  • Added v210 format support for AJA device capture [paulh-aja]
  • Added Amazon IVS service integration [palana]
  • Added QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding [thyintel]
  • Enabled first-party YouTube Chat features [msuman-google]

31.0 Changes
  • Updated the browser source/docks CEF (Chromium) to version 127 (6533) on all platforms [reitowo/WizardCM/PatTheMav/tytan652/pkviet/kkartaltepe/Lain-B]
  • Changed scene items to use relative coordinates [derrod]
  • Existing scene collections will be automatically converted to use relative coordinates if the scene collection has a known output resolution set.
  • Split NVIDIA Audio Effects from Noise Suppression [pkviet]
  • Existing filters will be automatically migrated.
  • Changed the Image Slideshow's Playback Mode property from radio buttons to a dropdown [derrod]
  • Disabled the (currently unsupported) built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland on Linux [tytan652]
  • Improved error messages for macOS Virtual Camera [jcm93]
  • Changed Display and Window capture on Windows to not capture the first found display or window [Lain-B]
  • Changed display and window capture on Linux to not capture implicitly [Lain-B]
  • Added a warning to Window Capture when trying to capture WinUI 3 applications with BitBlt [qhy040404]
  • Refactored the NVENC implementation with various improvements [derrod]
  • SDK 12.2 features, such as split encoding, are now supported.
  • Additional features from old SDKs are supported:
  • B-Frames as reference
  • Target Quality VBR mode (CQVBR)
  • A custom options field has been added to allow setting more options that don't warrant their own UI elements.
  • Improved screensaver inhibit functions on Linux in Flatpak
  • Changed scripts to correctly pass settings to modified callbacks on reload [Penwy]
  • Removed legacy QSV code for old devices (Haswell or older) [RytoEX]
  • Removed legacy QSV code for Windows 7 [RytoEX]
  • Removed default desktop audio device on macOS 13+ [jcm93]
  • Removed NVIDIA Kepler GPU support for NVENC [derrod]
  • Removed FTL support [derrod]
  • Removed legacy migrations from OBS Studio 28.1 and earlier [derrod]
  • If updating from these older versions, you may wish to update to OBS Studio 30.2 first, and then update to OBS Studio 31.
  • Removed support for Ubuntu 22.04 [derrod]
  • Removed legacy YouTube chat [gxalpha]
  • Blocked TikTok Virtual Camera from loading in OBS due to known issues [notr1ch]
  • Application settings have been split into "app" configuration and "user" configuration, rather than storing everything in global.ini [PatTheMav]

31.0 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed two crashes with the QSV encoder on Linux [kkartaltepe]
  • Fixed a crash with a race condition involving multitrack video output reconnect [dsaedtler]
  • Fixed two potential crashes in Linux Window Capture [Lain-B]
  • Fixed a crash on macOS that could occur if an audio device was disconnected [jcm93]
  • Fixed a crash on Windows when capturing D3D12 games [confusionattack/Lain-B]
  • Fixed a crash on Linux when importing a scene collection created on Windows [SarenDev]
  • Fixed a crash on Windows when capturing a Vulkan application [Charlese2]
  • Fixed a deadlock in MP4 muxer [derrod/notr1ch]
  • Fixed a deadlock when shutting down muxer [exeldro]
  • Fixed a potential deadlock when stopping an encoder [derrod]
  • Fixed a potential memory error and crash in text parser [fzwoch]
  • Fixed a couple minor memory leaks [pkviet]
  • Fixed a memory leak in PipeWire plugin [dimtpap]
  • Fixed a memory leak when playing an HDR media file [tt2468]
  • Fixed an issue on FreeBSD with handling SSL certificates [emaste]
  • Fixed an issue with pressed button color in the Rachni theme [shiina424]
  • Fixed an issue with some missing icons in the System theme [shiina424]
  • Fixed an SRT listener bug where the socket was not closed properly [pkviet]
  • Fixed an issue where the current scene collection could be erased to default when trying to switch to a different scene collection that's corrupted or invalid [derrod]
  • Fixed a buffer overrun in UTF-8 text conversion [derrod]
  • Fixed an issue that could cause bitrate spikes in QSV CBR [thyintel]
  • Note: This fix only applies to Lunar Lake or newer except Alder Lake N.
  • Fixed an issue where the Auto Configuration Wizard could unintentionally enable Enhanced Broadcasting [lexano-ivs]
  • Fixed issues with the audio clipping indicators displaying incorrectly on volume meters [norihiro]
  • Fixed an issue causing hotkeys to register inconsistently on macOS [jcm93]
  • Fixed an issue causing multitrack video output to fail if color format was set to I444 [dsaedtler]
  • Fixed an issue where Custom CSS in browser sources no longer worked with certain websites (namely YouTube chat) [vvto33]
  • Restored STUN support for WHIP output [mondain]
Latest comments
Specular on 2019-03-05 08:39

@vmars316 - I checked and OBS Studio is QT-based rather than Electron-based (though a different project called Streamlabs OBS is). I've updated the entry.

Yucca on 2019-06-12 11:35

As of June 12, OBS version 23.2.0 is a release candidate and not the current stable version. The current stable version is 23.1.0. If you post a release candidate, that should be stated in the description so users can know what they are downloading.

rb161 on 2020-12-16 23:25

My recently purchased webcam only works with one version of OBS so I'm unable to upgrade to use new features. I have always had problems playing any video except uncompressed and despite being able to play and edit just about any anything in other software on my PC. Other people have complained about the same issue (videos showing as a black screen) for years but the problem is never addressed by the developers. If you can work around issues such as these or are lucky enough not to be plagued by them, then OBS is nice, light software and recording and streaming work well.

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QiPress Lite v1.077 Updated

joby_toss on 2 Jan 2025
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jul 2023
  • Suggested by billon

QiPress is a monitor for the system keyboard and mouse, describing activity in a small, semi-transparent black box in the corner of your screen. Ideal for presentations, screencasts and program how-tos, the program can also behave as a diagnosis tool for keyboard problems, describe unlabeled keys, or provide feedback show when an application is ignoring input.

Settings are available to ignore key-sets to exclude for example mouse or keypad activity, as well as window color, transparency, fade-out and more.

A pro version of the program is available for commercial use, and has the same feature-set.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
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 QiPress.exe.
What's new? See:
http://aalapshah.in/qipress

What's new in v1.077:
  • More robust key-combination handling.
  • More keys added to Key Relabelling.
  • Some applications have started to use Quadruple-Clicks. This is now handled along with Double and Triple-Click of all mouse buttons (Left, Middle, Right, X1 and X2).
  • Support for 32-bit dropped, since the compilation for this platform had some signature which anti-virus did not like.
  • Removed version check calls.
Latest comments
utilfreak on 2015-05-31 01:35

The program is stealth again.

I am Baas on 2015-06-02 02:52

@utilfreak

Thank you.

Also, QiPress triggers a User Account Control (UAC) prompt. What does it need it for?

utilfreak on 2015-06-03 16:09

@I am Baas
Thank you for your note, I wasn't aware of it as I have set UAC to the lowest level. QiPress 1.064 Build 6 will now trigger UAC only if it is running within:
a) C:\Program Files*\* OR
b) Root of a drive
This is generally required by programs that need to dynamically update their resources within those paths.

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PeaZip v10.2.0 Updated

Ennovy on 1 Jan 2025
  • 37MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by Yucca

PeaZip is a feature-rich file archiver with broad support for 200+ file types. The file manager interface includes a hash tool, file wipe, file associations, file splitter, themes, estimated compression level, system benchmark, image crop/rename and much more.

Formats supported include most mainstream archive formats, including ZIP, 7Z, ACE, BZIP2, CAB, GZIP, TAR, UPX, ZIPX, as well as it's own PEA format. Can extact but not create MSI and RAR files.

Note that tools setup through the Task Scheduler are not portable.

Cross platform with clients for Mac, Linux, and BSD, as well as a 64-bit version is available. Alternatively, PeaZip Portable portablizes bookmarks and includes both 32 and 64-bit versions, automatically using the proper one on each PC.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU LGPL
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch peazip.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: 7-Zip, IZArc, Bandizip
What's new? See: https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2014-11-16 17:37

Download link (http://www.peazip.org/peazip-portable.html) raises a 404 "not found" error. Link instead just to http://www.peazip.org/ or to http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip-portable.html.

webfork on 2014-11-16 18:56

AndTheWolf: Joby updated, thanks for the note

Happy.Camper2 on 2014-12-24 02:22

My experience with PeaZip is to go to:

HomePage: http://www.peazip.org/
Download Link: http://www.peazip.org/downloads/peazip-5.5.2.WINDOWS.exe

Happy Holidays to everyone :)

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phiola v2.2.8 New

joby_toss on 31 Dec 2024
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Nov 2024
  • Suggested by freakazoid

phiola is a fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android. It can play audio files from your device or remote server, record audio from your microphone or Internet radio stream, process and convert audio into another format, and more. You can issue commands to phiola via its CLI, TUI, GUI, system pipe and SDK interfaces. Its fast startup time allows using it from custom scripts on a "play-and-exit" or "record-and-exit" basis. It's completely portable (all codecs are bundled) - you can run it directly from a read-only flash drive. It's a free and open-source project, and you can use it as a standalone application or as a library for your own software.

Category:
Runs on: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: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice;
  2. Navigate to [phiola directory]/mod/gui/ folder and create an empty user.conf file;
  3. Launch phiola-gui.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: foobar2000, AIMP, XMPlay

Freeplane v1.12.8 New

joby_toss on 31 Dec 2024
  • 206MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by webfork

Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information, getting things done at work, in school and at home. It provides you a set of tools for mind mapping (also known as concept mapping or information mapping) and navigating the mapped information. Freeplane's capabilities will appeal to power users, but for the typical user is also a more robust alternative to Xmind, Mindmeister, and similar mind mapping software.

Category:
Runs on:Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Open JDK JRE64 portable java version 15 (included)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
How to extract:
  1. Download Freeplane-Setup-with-Java-x.x.x.exe and extract to a folder of your choice;
  2. Delete everything except the [runtime] folder;
  3. Download FreeplanePortable-x.x.x.paf.exe and run;
  4. Move the previously saved [runtime] folder in the newly created [FreeplanePortable] one;
  5. Navigate to [FreeplanePortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher] folder and open the FreeplanePortable.ini file;
  6. Change the last line to: FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME=%PAL:AppDir%\..\runtime and save it;
  7. Launch FreeplanePortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: XMind, Blumind

NAPS2 v7.5.3 Updated

Andrew Lee on 1 Jan 2025
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Midas

NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP or 7Z package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Optionally delete contributors.txt, license.txt and unnecessary language files
  3. Launch NAPS2.Portable.exe
Similar/alternative apps: WinScan2PDF
What's new? See: https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2/releases/tag/v7.5.0

Nemp v5.2.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 1 Jan 2025
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 31 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Nemp (Noch Ein Mp3-Player) is an intuitive and easy-to-use audio player that plays most common audio formats. The program features a media library with support for drag-and-drop and tag-cloud organization, as well as audio effects, EQ, coverflow, webradio, a Web server for remote control and much more.

Supports streaming of multiple formats and recording and automatic management of MP3 streams.

Based on the BASS audio library.

Category:
Runs on: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 nemp.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Winyl
What's new? See: https://github.com/DanielGausi/Nemp/releases
Latest comments
kowcop on 2011-10-18 22:46

I like this player a lot. I love that it can be setup to use relative paths for the music folder (I had to edit the config file for this). My only gripe so far is that it will not read the coverart from the ID3 tags... it only looks at the art in the folders.

hamasaki on 2023-01-02 03:09

Now at version 5.0.1

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XMPlay Portable v4.0 Updated

joby_toss on 31 Dec 2024
  • 1009KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Ed Brownstein

XMPlay is a skinnable audio player that plays all major audio formats and includes gapless playback, effects, equalizer, net streaming. More features are available using plugins, including visualizations, more format support, cover art and more. Note that the library and playlist will not work as you change PCs.

Can play MP3, WMA, M4A, OGG and more, as well as output to WAV, MP3 OGG etc. (via external encoders).

Alternatively, XMPlay is natively portable but does not automatically adjust library and playlist paths: download the ZIP package, extract to a folder of your choice and launch xmplay.exe.
Also, you can always download the "Latest stuff" version.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / 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: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch XMPlayPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: foobar2000
What's new? New in version 4.0:

* New default skin (old skin is downloadable)
* Skin hue and light adjustment
* Anto-mini mode can be enabled/disabled for all skins, with adjustable timeout
* WMA and AC3 support via Media Foundation (old WMA plugin is downloadable)
* Support for multiple tracks in MP4 files
* Support for 64-bit WAV and AIFF files
* GZIP archive support
* Support for #EXT-X-MEDIA tags in HLS master playlists
* Support for event message (emsg) metadata in fMP4 HLS streams
* Taskbar playback control buttons
* Adjustable seeking time step
* Old tracks can be faded-out over new tracks
* A gap can be inserted between tracks
* Crossfade/fade-out/gap track transitions can apply to subsongs too
* Option to disable preloading the next track when not crossfading
* Balance control added to DSP options
* The monitor can be kept awake during playback (for monitor speakers)
* Tracks can be sent to other apps/tools
* Filename and full path playlist column options
* Queue display option in extended playlist
* Shortcut/menu option to move selected tracks to the bottom of the playlist
* Shortcut/menu option to crop the playlist/library (remove unselected)
* Shortcut to play a random track from the library
* Track last play time is when playback ended (not started)
* Library average play count changed from per-month to per-year
* Abbreviated option for library "size" column
* Adjustable nested playlist reading limit
* File deletion can be disabled or require confirmation, optionally to the recycle bin
* Improved drag'n'drop support for moving tracks within XMPlay and to other apps
* Improved edge snapping for skins with empty space at the edges
* Main and info windows can be snapped together
* Main window can be moved together with the info window
* Info window can be hidden when XMPlay is inactive
* Channel/bpm/speed info in MOD pattern display (replaces time display option)
* The documentation is now online, with context-sensitive help button in options window
* "Input plugins" options renamed "Decoders" and includes built-in decoders
* New "Version" options page showing the version of XMPlay and installed plugins
* Warning shown when assigning a shortcut to the same key as another one
* Per-user config enabled by default when installed in Program Files
* %USERPROFILE% used in playlists/library for tracks in the user profile path
* Downloaded files can be cached in temporary internet files folder
* History (URL/folder/search/playlist) saving can be disabled
* Default playlist (XMPLAY.PLS) saving can be disabled
* Info bubbles use same font size with all skins for consistency
* Formerly sliding panels in skins now open/close with a click
* Improved Wine compatibility for single/merged panel skins (inc. default)
* Archive plugins that crash are disabled (with notice) and XMPlay continues running
* Separate title formatting option for the playlist panel is removed
* Skinning enhancements (see skinning kit)
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TP109 on 2015-01-03 03:45

@smaragdus Thanks. I downloaded it. BTW, XMPlay archives older versions here: https://support.xmplay.com/files.php?id=20

The problem seems to be related to plugins. It's working now. See post at un4seen forums here:
http://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=16287.0

Checker on 2016-02-26 18:34

There's a v3.8.2.3 available.
See: http://www.un4seen.com/

dbonnell1972 on 2016-12-08 17:11

I used to use WinAmp (over the years became bloated and tool forever to load), then tried Cool Player (good, but not enough features for me). XM Player is the perfect balance - super fast, reliable (so far), flexible, and customizable. J.U.S.T. Perfect!

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MACAddressView v1.50 Updated

Andrew Lee on 31 Dec 2024
  • 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?
  • Added 'Save All Items' option (Shift+Ctrl+S).
  • Updated the internal MAC Addresses database.

MKVToolNix v89.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 31 Dec 2024
  • 153MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by agam

MKVToolnix is a freeware utility that allows you to create, alter, inspect, etc., video files with the MKV format.You can use MKVToolNix to create, split, edit, mux, demux, merge, extract, or inspect Matroska files.
MKVToolnix program will also work with other video formats including AVI, MPEG, MP4, MPEG, MPEG1/2, h264, and more, as well as some video codecs such as VP9, audio including AAC, FLAC, MP2, MP3, AC3, DTS/DTS-HD, Vorbis and most subtitle formats including SRT, PGS/SUP, VobSub, ASS, and SSA.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. QtProject registry key
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the Portable 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mkvtoolnix-gui.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Avidemux, MKVcleaver
What's new? See https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/NEWS.md (detailed) or https://www.bunkus.org/blog/ (summary but might not be limited to just what's new)

Tenacity v1.3.4 New

joby_toss on 1 Jan 2025
  • 53MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jan 2025
  • Suggested by joby_toss

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, Linux, and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open-source software.
Features:

  • Recording from audio devices (real or virtual)
  • Export & Import a wide range of audio formats (extendible with FFmpeg)
  • High Quality including up to 32-bit float audio support
  • Plug-Ins providing support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins
  • Scripting in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl and other languages with named pipes
  • Editing arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline
  • Accessibility including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support
  • Tools useful in the analysis of signals, including audio

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Creates an empty SessionData folder in AppData.
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPL Version 2
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer according to your OS architecture (eg. tenacity-win-x.x.x-x64.exe for 64-bit Windows) and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Create an empty folder and name it Portable Settings in the same directory
  3. Launch tenacity.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Audacity, ocenaudio
What's new? v1.3.4 Changelog:
  • Increased default maximum spectrogram frequency to 20 kHz.
  • Tenacity now warns you if you save to a FAT32 drive on FreeBSD.
  • Enabled drag-and-drop project importing.
  • Fix sync-lock drawing.
  • Update about dialog to add new contributors plus Matroska info (#226).
  • Updated manual packaging (#406).
  • Added FFmpeg 7 support (#484; an accidental backport believe it or not but why not ;)
  • Windows: Fixed some flickering issues.
  • Windows: Fixed issues when building Tenacity for ARM.
  • Windows: Fixed issues with garbled text in the installer (#486, #509).
  • Windows: Fixed OGG imports causing crashes (#311, #511)
  • Windows: Changed EXE description to reduce confusion in Task Manager (#510).
  • macOS: Applied patches from @ryandesign to improve macOS support.
  • Haiku: Applied patches from @davidkalory to improve Haiku support.
  • Linux: remove unused launcher script (#358, #513).
  • Some error help buttons and preferences no longer point to broken links (#519).
  • Removed some overhead on initialization (#526).

For packagers and other advanced users
  • Updated vcpkg to 2024.12.16 (our fork).
  • Enable SBSMS timestretching by default in vcpkg builds.
  • musl libc builds should now be less susceptible to breakage, although you will see new output if ran from the terminal.
  • Build times should be much faster with vcpkg (#483) and slightly faster without it (#405).
  • Due to its use of VLAs and a recent update, lilv is no longer built on Windows. LV2 isn't supported on Windows currently either, but will be once vcpkg has suil.
  • Tenacity can now be built against a more minimal wxWidgets configuration. It only requires the base, core, html, and net wxWidgets libraries now (#525). To see this in action, view our Flatpak maniefst.
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Guido76 on 2025-01-01 05:39

Version 1.3.4 available but cannot be extracted to a folder....

joby_toss on 2025-01-01 08:44

Yes, it can. Make sure you're using the latest innounp.exe ( https://www.rathlev-home.de/tools/prog-e.html#unpack ) in your [UniExtract\bin] folder.

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Youtube Downloader HD v5.9.3 Updated

joby_toss on 30 Dec 2024
  • 92MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by boloyoung

Youtube Downloader HD saves videos to your computer for playing outside a browser or offline viewing. The videos can be downloaded in Flash video format (FLV) or, where available, MP4 formats (playable by iPhone, iPod etc.). The program can also convert files to Xvid format, compatible with most video players.

Functionality is limited to YouTube. Although there is no batch download, multiple instances can be opened concurrently in order to simultaneously download multiple videos.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch YouTubeDownloaderHD.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: 3D Youtube Downloader, YouTubePal
What's new? See: https://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/features.html#whatsnew

    [December 29, 2024] v.5.9.3 Happy Holidays!
    Small download improvements
    For Windows 7 users: Added the ability to download version 5.8.2 which works on Windows 7

    [December 18, 2024] v.5.9.2
    Another hotfix for Downloader
Latest comments
gbrao on 2023-05-06 09:06

[March 25, 2023] v.5.1 High Speed Edition

Significant increase in download speed for large videos (thanks to Dharam for help)

gbrao on 2023-05-06 09:14

the zip also has a file YouTubeDownloaderHD.ini. so if you blindly unzip, you will lose your 'settings'.

the ini file has a entry AutoCheckUpdates=1 . you may want to set it to zero (manually). not sure how you get to settings from the UI.

gbrao on 2023-05-09 21:50

Hi,
I use the portable version.
1) Please do not include the fileYouTubeDownloaderHD.ini in the zip. If the user blindly unzipsthe file, he loses the original ini file (and the settings).
I would suggest the program check if the file already exists, if it does not exist then create the default ini file (similar to the one now included in the zip).
2) I noticed AutoCheckUpdates=1 in the inifile. How do I set it to 0 ? I cannot find a settings icon inthe UI.

---

Hi,
Thanks for feedback!
1. Ok, I updated the portable version.
2. I don’t want to overload GUI with a bunch of options. So you can change ini file with any text editor.

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Text Editor Pro v31.2.0 Updated

rbon on 29 Dec 2024
  • 31MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Midas

Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editor with a customizable interface. View options include minimap, directory view, line numbers, rulers, and skins. The code viewer enables syntax highlighting support for over 50 languages and scripts, customizable with over 100 options, 29 ready made styles.

Search tools include a file comparison feature, wildcards and regular expressions support, multiple directory results, and a duplicate text finder.

Other power features include macro recording and playback, hotkeys, and file execution. You can also convert untis (e.g. volume and mass), speak text, onscreen zoom, SQL formatter and more.

Supports 20 world languages.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. %LOCALAPPDATA%\TextEditorPro
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP or 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TextEditorPro.exe -appinipath.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad3
What's new? See: https://texteditor.pro/index.php?page=history
Latest comments
webfork on 2019-01-27 13:09

It doesn't have functionality far in advance of other editors, but the interface is great. There are big, clear icons, themes, easy tabbed interface, and a really smooth options menu. If you think text editors are supposed to be functional rather than friendly, this might not be your cup of tea. Otherwise...

PapaiMark on 2020-02-25 15:11

Nice. The best text compare Ive ever seen. And mainly because of the trim-left/right.

eitang on 2021-12-10 15:46

Hi all,

Yes, Great editor !!! BUT:

Although it says compatible with Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 version v18.2.1 is NOT compatible with (at least) Win XP SR3 (which I still use).

I wrote to support@texteditor.pro but no reply as yet.

Anybody has a cure ? a Work Arounfd ? (it may be some useless DLL, for example...)

TIA,

EitanG

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WinContig v5.0.3.0 Updated

rbon on 29 Dec 2024
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by MarcoNovaro

WinContig is an easy-to-use file defragmentation program that allows defrag of parts of the drive. This is useful for squeezing extra performance out of important or frequently used files or programs without wasting time and energy cleaning up the rest of the drive.

Note that this is recommended only on magnetic disks. Flash-based drives (SSDs and thumb drives) don't benefit from defragmentation and such maintenance tools can reduce the life of the drive.

The program engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API and allows you to group files into profiles, accepting a number of available command-line switches for additional control.

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 WinContig.exe or WinContig64.exe (for 64-bit OS).

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: UltraDefrag
What's new? See: https://www.mdtzone.it/sw/wincontig/en/history.html
Latest comments
__philippe on 2018-09-12 08:35

Sysinternals' lean Contig.exe v1.8 (248KB) CLI will defrag selected files just as well…;-)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/contig

Bonus point: still behaves under WinXP...;-)

appsuser on 2019-11-27 20:17

Although a little difficult to figure out, have successfully used this to defragment fragmented .ISO files resulting from an AnyBurn .IMG file conversion.

gbrao on 2021-02-28 23:18

WRT __philippe post (2018-09-12 08:35) on sysinternals CONTIG v1.8 :

The 64-bit version does not work. The 32-bit works OK.

I lost a lot of time, thought I was doing something wrong.

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SQLiteStudio v3.4.13 Updated

Stephen Leibowitz on 29 Dec 2024
  • 67MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Dec 2024
  • 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

QMPlay2 v24.12.28 Updated

joby_toss on 29 Dec 2024
  • 77MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

QMPlay2 is a video and audio player. It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and MyFreeMP3 browser.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
How to extract: Download the portable.7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch QMPlay2.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PotPlayer, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, VLC, SMPlayer
What's new? https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2/blob/master/ChangeLog

Changes in QMPlay2 24.12.28
  • add option to maintain panels size when resizing main window,
  • add input dialog for zoom and add precise zoom control,
  • live update when changing values in input dialogs,
  • add FFmpeg audio filters,
  • teletext improvements,
  • fix various crashes,
  • other minor fixes,

GestureSign v8.1.0.0 New

joby_toss on 28 Dec 2024
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Feb 2022
  • Suggested by joby_toss

GestureSign is a gesture recognition software for Windows. You can automate repetitive tasks by simply drawing a gesture with your fingers, pen or mouse.
GestureSign supports the following commands:

  • Activate Window
  • Window Control
  • Touch Keyboard Control
  • Keyboard simulation
  • Key Down/Up
  • Mouse Simulation
  • Send Keystrokes
  • Open Default Browser
  • Screen Brightness
  • Volume Adjustment
  • Run Command or Program
  • Launch Windows Store App
  • Send Message
  • Toggle Window Topmost

Category:
Runs on:Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies:
  • Administrator rights are necessary for full functionality.
  • .NET Framework v4.8
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL-2.0 license
How to extract: Download the Portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GestureSign.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: StrokesPlus

WinUpdatesView v1.20 Updated

Andrew Lee on 27 Dec 2024
  • 138KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by billon

WinUpdatesView displays the history of Windows updates on your system. It can load the Windows updates history from your local system, using API, and it can also read and parse the Windows updates database file (DataStore.edb) from external drive or from remote computer on your network.

For every Windows update history record, WinUpdatesView displays the following fields: Title, Description, Install Date, Update Operation (Install, Uninstall, Not Started, In Progress), Operation Result (Succeeded, Succeeded With Errors, Failed, Aborted), Category, Information URL, Support URL, Uninstall Notes, Client Application ID, Service ID, Update ID, Revision Number, Unmapped Result Code, Server Selection, hResult.

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 WinUpdatesView.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: WinUpdatesList, UninstallView
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: When reading the updates history database directly, the description of 'Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool' items displayed gibberish characters.

Q-Dir v11.96 Updated

Andrew Lee on 27 Dec 2024
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Island Boy

Q-Dir is a quad-pane file explorer that supports favorites, file/color filtering, export to XLS/CSV/TXT/HTML, screen magnifier, quick preview etc.

Alternately, Q-Dir Portable at PortableApps.com automatically switches between 32/64-bit and is approved by the publisher.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
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 Q-Dir.exe or Q-Dir_x64.exe (for64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: CubicExplorer, Tablacus Explorer
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir/History
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2023-09-26 00:26

@pendrive: It was just a friendly question, I did't mean to offend you in any way

Midas on 2023-09-26 09:18

@Pendrive: please don't. Your input is highly appreciated. Would you consider improving your rank by participating in forum discussions, for instance?

shiny on 2024-04-18 07:34

just asked developer about one feature, it still not implemented(

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FreeCommander XE 2025 Build 921 Updated

Ennovy on 27 Dec 2024

FreeCommander XE is a powerful, dual-pane file manager with hundreds of features including folder size calculation, folder comparison/synchronization, file/duplicate search, filtering, MD5 calc / verfiy, folder compare, sync and a customizable interface. Includes a file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format; an archive handling ability for standard compressed formats including ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write) and RAR (read); built-in copy/move/delete handlers; and much more. Additional features are available via plugins.

A 64-bit version is available for donors, while a PortableApps version is also available from the author's website.

Category:
Runs on: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: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FreeCommander.exe.

Note: It is not recommended to overwrite the file fcStart.ini when the application is being updated.
Similar/alternative apps: Multi Commander, Q-Dir, CubicExplorer
What's new? See: https://freecommander.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=775&sid=f1809a9ef15797c7cdf58de4820b5f99&start=345#p42540
Latest comments
peter48 on 2019-07-12 04:25

I like this software but it has some bugs.

qj3328 on 2019-10-31 00:35

I have been using FreeCommander for many years and it is, simply, outstanding. To not have a real file manager is a misfortune; to be without FreeCommander is to be handicapped. Over time I have introduced many new users to FreeCommander and the results are always the same after several weeks of use - fascination that they ever managed to function with that Windows File Explorer thing. I had moved to FreeCommander when the old Xtree/XtreeGold file manager was no longer functional in Windows, and other file managers were not handling the complex file management work regularly encountered. At first, the two default panes in FreeCommander seemed odd. Though one pane can be disabled or hidden, dual panes grow quickly on the user until one realizes - wait, how can anyone function with a file manager that has just one pane?

PAFuser on 2022-01-11 13:04

FreeCommanderPortable_2022_Build_860.paf.exe available on author's website.

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Torrent File Editor v1.0.0 New

joby_toss on 27 Dec 2024
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Oct 2024
  • Suggested by rbon

Torrent File Editor is a cross-platform application intended to create and edit .torrent and uTorrent .dat files.
Features:

  • Create .torrent file from a scratch.
  • Add new files to .torrent file.
  • Removing files from .torrent file.
  • Change files order in .torrent file.
  • Change main .torrent file infomation: name, comment, publisher, url, creation date, trackers and author.
  • Edit data as JSON-format. In this mode non-ASCII symbols not supported.
  • Translated to many languages (use Ctrl+T hotkey to change).
  • Support different encodings.
  • Portable.
  • Edit .torrent file as binary tree.
  • Search and replace in tree.
  • Open files with drag-n-drop.
  • Remove files from file list with filter.
  • Command line mode.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
How to extract: Download torrent-file-editor-1.0.0-x32.exe or torrent-file-editor-1.0.0-x64.exe (according to your OS architecture) to a folder of your choice and launch.

FreeVimager v9.9.24 Updated

Ennovy on 26 Dec 2024
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Oct 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

FreeVimager is a fast media viewer and image editor with full screen and multi-monitor support. Includes various image modification tools (lossless rotate and crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen) and analysis tools. Includes batch processing and CD/DVD slideshow creation, as well as a random setting. Touch screen gesture support for zoom in/out and for next/previous picture.

Includes EXIF date / time adjustment, view image location in Google Maps and can view/edit JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG, PCX, EMF, HEIC, WEBP, AVIF, and JXR as well as save to PDF.

Also includes basic screenshot and very efficient scanning tools.
The interface with the scanner driver stays in memory, allowing quick scans of multi-page documents, and then quick saving of the sequence of scanned pages (Escape Key, then provide a file name for each scanned page displayed on screen).

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Donationware/GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download FreeVimager-X.X.XX-Portable.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
What's new? See: https://www.contaware.com/downloads/HistoryFreeVimager.txt
Latest comments
__philippe on 2017-10-19 11:23

FreeVimager v7.5.0
Dropped Windows XP and Windows 2003 support...:-(

tomcat on 2024-12-26 04:19

Version 9.9.24 is now available, released on Oct 21, 2024. Windows 7 to 11 are supported.

Note that to view HEIC images, you need to install the codec from the Microsoft store.

Ennovy on 2024-12-26 06:22

@tomcat: thanks and I updated the database

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Notepad++ v8.7.5 Updated

Ennovy on 25 Dec 2024
  • 21MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Notepad++ is a tabbed source code editor and Notepad replacement with a customizable interface. Includes source code "folding", allowing users to quickly reduce and expand sections of code to see the overall document. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, Perl-compatible regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback, document map etc.

A host of additional functionality is available via the plugins admin view, including tools for file analysis, programming languages, viewers, calculations, user interface and many more.

Alternatively, Notepad++ Portable and the outdated X-Notepad++ clean the local folder.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP or 7z package according to your OS and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete unnecessary localization files
  3. Launch notepad++.exe
Similar/alternative apps: AkelPad, PSPad, EditPad Lite
What's new? Changelog at: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/.
Latest comments
Pendrive on 2021-12-08 16:48

Where is this "v8.1.9.3"?

PAFuser on 2022-01-19 09:26

8.2 does not seem to have sessions check box under general tab, and session does not seem to load or save. Any comments?

Mike.S.G. on 2022-01-20 09:43

@PAFuser

Things have changed a bit, can you make something happen by tweaking settings in Backup & Multi Instance... looking at the changelog some settings have been tweaked regarding Sessions???

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WinBin2Iso v6.41 Updated

Andrew Lee on 23 Dec 2024
  • 176KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Checker

WinBin2Iso converts CD and DVD disk images from BIN to ISO format, including files over 2GB. As many more tools support ISO over BIN images, this can save time and energy.

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 "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinBin2Iso_p.exe(ANSI), WinBin2Iso_uc_p.exe(Unicode) or WinBin2Iso_x64_p.exe.
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/WinBin2Iso/History

AutoHideMouseCursor v5.71 Updated

Andrew Lee on 23 Dec 2024
  • 100KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Checker

AutoHideMouseCursor automatically hides the mouse cursor with an adjustable timer. The program is useful for reducing distractions for users while reading, during presentations, or for personal preference.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
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 AutoHideMouseCursor_p.exe or AutoHideMouseCursor_x64_p.exe (for 64-bit OS).
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/AutoHideMouseCursor/History

DesktopSnowOK v6.44 Updated

Andrew Lee on 23 Dec 2024
  • 204KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Checker

DesktopSnowOK adds a little winter magic feeling (up to 2000 snow flakes) on your Desktop. Can also add flowers, stars or leaves.

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 DesktopSnowOK.exe or DesktopSnowOK_x64.exe.
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopSnowOK/History
Latest comments
rodger123 on 2012-10-15 04:42

Neat little harmless program-wish it had skulls and other creepy stuff falling,maybe they could make a halloween version?

rodger123 on 2012-11-14 05:00

It did nothing spectacular for me,but I had my sister in arizona DL it and she went gaga over it!Must be a girl thing!Nice Job.

fullbug on 2015-12-28 15:16

Kinda cool, would be better if the snow built up a bit on the bottom of the screen.....

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Multi Commander v14.5.3054 Updated

Ennovy on 23 Dec 2024
  • 15MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Multi Commander is a customizable, feature-rich and multi-tabbed file manager with a dual-pane layout. The program includes the standard file manager features with the ability to browse a variety of resources including local hard drives, network servers/shares, system registry and FTP (with SSL/TLS Support). Available tools include quick search, file verifier, splitter, audio, picture, clipboard, permissions and many more. The program can browse many archive formats like folders on your system (zip, tar, gz) as well as manage/open other formats (7z, RAR).

Includes intelligent functions that allow you to do advanced tasks with ease such as auto-unpacking, auto-sorting, internal file type associations, a powerful scripting engine for automation and command-line field.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Some settings are written to the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MultiCommander
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MultiCommander.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: FreeCommander XE
What's new? See: https://multicommander.com/ChangeLog
Latest comments
apometron on 2016-12-26 05:28

MultiCommander has a bug in log into other directories. I could not log into directories reliably. =( Check the directories you enter with MC!

Ennovy on 2020-11-24 08:51

Version 10 no longer supports Windows XP
Download latest XP Edition here: http://multicommander.com/downloads/XP

zorro on 2024-01-30 08:14

Multi Commander unfortunately isn't stealth > creates MultiCommander-key in HKCU\Software. Could be triggered by some settings. Deleting apparently doesn't affect settings/functionality, but the key reappears on every start.

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Notepad3 v6.24.1221.1 Updated

Ennovy on 23 Dec 2024
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Dec 2024
  • 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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ClipAngel v2.15 Updated

Ennovy on 23 Dec 2024
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by smaragdus

ClipAngel records all data copied including text, images and files, making it easy to retrieve earlier data where Windows usually allows only one item at a time. The program keeps data even after reboot and can paste in RDP, CMD, elevated windows etc. independently from current input language. Clipboard views include rich text and HTML formatting, filtering by text and details on URL, application and window data.

The program can emulate keyboard input and includes customizable hotkeys. For additional security, the program can block specific applications where passwords may be copied and encrypt stored items.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder. If not launched in portable mode, writes to AppData\Local\Clipangel.
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2+
Stealth: ? Yes. It can write temp files to standard TEMP folder of user profile, but you can change path to this folder in the program settings.
It can write to registry HKCU if you turn on AutoStart setting.
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete unnecessary language resources
  3. Launch ClipAngelPortable.bat or ClipAngel.exe /p
Optionally, you can disable update checking by going into Settings - Autocheck for program update
Similar/alternative apps: ArsClip, ClipDiary, Ditto
What's new? See: https://sourceforge.net/p/clip-angel/blog/
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2017-05-14 14:41

One does not need the BAT file ("ClipAngelPortable.bat") to start ClipAngel in portable mode, just run the EXE with this parameter- "ClipAngel.exe /p".

The name of the program is not Clip Angel but ClipAngel as it can be seen in program's main window and in "About" window.

Program's icon does not imply an angel but an alien.

tormozit on 2017-05-14 16:46

@smaragdus
Yes, "ClipAngel" is more correct than "Clip Angel". Over time, I will try to replace "Clip Angel" with "ClipAngel" everywhere I can.

kiwichick888 on 2022-10-20 04:41

The sourceforge page says portability can also be achieved by the "presence of file PortableMode.txt".

https://sourceforge.net/projects/clip-angel/files/

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darktable v5.0 Updated

Ennovy on 22 Dec 2024
  • 303MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by shnbwmn

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and non-destructive raw developer - a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database annd lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images, enhance them and export them to local or remote storage. It focuses on the workflow to make it easier for the photographer to quickly handle the thousands of images a day of shooting can produce. It is one of the very few FOSS projects that supports tethered shooting.

Category:
Runs on:Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Copy all files (except Uninstall.exe) to a folder of your choice. Uninstall the application. Create an empty subfolder called config in the same folder. Launch using start bin\darktable.exe --configdir config.
What's new? See: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0
Latest comments
juverax on 2023-08-12 15:25

https://www.darktable.org/news/ Darktable 4.4.2 released

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Stellarium Portable v24.1.0 Updated

Ennovy on 22 Dec 2024
  • 940MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by krungthep

Stellarium is a planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope, with realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset. It features over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog with associated information.

Stellarium Portable is a portable version of the program. The 0.22.x 32-bit version is also included for use on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 32-bit. Version 0.13.3 is available for Windows XP. Alternatively, X-Stellarium is also available.

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: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch StellariumPortable.exe.
Latest comments
Midas on 2014-07-22 10:13

@Foot: sorry about that, I forget they're third party repacks. PA has updated now...

Foot on 2014-07-22 12:39

@Midas: No harm done. Thanks for the alert to PA's timely update.

MIKLO on 2017-12-30 15:54

Very cool :)

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SyMenu v8.04.9022 Updated

joby_toss on 22 Dec 2024
  • 174MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Sep 2024
  • Suggested by SymoPd

SyMenu is a customizeable menu launcher that allows to organize and find your portable applications in a quick and easy way. Moreover, it can automatically link any application residing on host PC. Any linked item (SyItem) can be organized in a hierarchical structure with colorful folders and found with the internal search tool. The Standard for Portable Software (SPS) allows to install, update and remove the programs available in the SyMenu suites automatically, see more in Manual.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? 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 SyMenu.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Portable Start Menu, PortAL, Tray Launcher, PStart
What's new? See: https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuDownload.aspx

Version 8.04.9022 [2024.09.13]
New 15 seconds timeout on all the API connections
The update of a program doesn't clear anymore the user command args if it was set
Paths containing ampersand character (&) are now correctly escaped and become usable
With the special option SyMenu can appear as a button on the taskbar. It's useful only to pin SyMenu
New innounp version (v1.72)
New 7zip version (v24.08)
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2024-04-16 22:15

Now at 8.01.8833

Rubber_Ducky on 2024-12-12 22:31

You say its file-size is a mere 5MB while https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/symenu.html says it is 71MB, https://www.snapfiles.com/get/symenu.html says it is 70.7MB and https://symenu.en.lo4d.com/windows says it is 71.28MB.

joby_toss on 2024-12-22 01:29

Somewhere down the line it started to include a bunch of libraries (I think the entire .Net v8, so no need to list that as a dependency), so the size grew up considerably. Also I can't find a 64 bit version, so I removed the download link for that. The OS requirement seem to come down to only Win 10 and 11 (the ones that are able to allow .Net v8.0 apps to run).

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WinScan2PDF v9.19 Updated

Andrew Lee on 21 Dec 2024
  • 206KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Emka

WinScan2PDF is a very small program for scanning documents and saving them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
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 WinScan2PDF_p.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Not Another PDF Scanner 2
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/WinScan2PDF/History.
Latest comments
opsimathic on 2017-08-12 08:51

@Emka - The first item under OPTIONS look like you can set the utility to delete the jpgs when you exit the program. I have never been very sure the program actually does what it says, so I simply use the second item in OPTIONS to check and delete as necessary. Periodically I use the jpg instead the pdf so I actually find this useful. Bottom line is that I wish the author would clean all this up a bit more, but I find the utility so useful (use it every day almost) that I am prepared to work around the idiosyncrasies.

MIKLO on 2017-08-26 14:06

@__philippe thanks for the help I appreciate very much.
MIKLO

Emka on 2019-07-30 01:11

@MIKLO & _philippe: It now seems possible to select a folder for temporary files, so you can change the default location in AppData to the app's folder for example.

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GPU-Z v2.61 Updated

Andrew Lee on 21 Dec 2024
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by JohnW

GPU-Z is a lightweight system utility designed to provide vital information about your video card and graphics processor. It supports AMD, ATI, Intel and NVIDIA graphics devices.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download GPU-Z.x.xx.x.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a blank text file in the same folder and name it GPU-Z.ini
  3. Launch GPU-Z.x.xx.x.exe
Similar/alternative apps: CPU-Z
What's new? See: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/#history
Latest comments
veyselcelik on 2013-09-13 21:53

It's not stealth. Where the files or regs stored?

I am Baas on 2013-09-14 01:28

@veyselcelik

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TechPowerUP\Gpu-z

tomcat on 2024-08-18 03:55

You may not need this, as there is an on-board facility. First try (e.g. Windows 10):
Type info in the search box on your taskbar, and then select System Information.

You'll get a lot of info under various categories. Only consider installing this, if that's not enough.

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CPU-Z v2.13 Updated

gbrao on 20 Dec 2024

CPU-Z gathers and displays information on some of the main components of the machine, including CPU, motherboard, memory, GPU and operating system.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch cpuz_x32.exe or cpuz_x64.exe (for 64-bit OS).

Optional: To disable update check, edit cpuz.ini and change CheckUpdates=1 to CheckUpdates=0
What's new?

    Intel Arc B580 GPU.
    Intel Arrow Lake-U preliminary support.
    Improved support of Intel Lunar Lake.
    Intel Q870, B860, H810, W880, HM870, WM890, WM880 chipsets.
    CAMM2 memory modules type.
Latest comments
dany on 2011-10-27 15:15

@Cattleya: Make sure you download the zip package, because the installer does the following:
"The kernel mode driver used by CPU-Z is installed on the system, that avoids to install / remove it at every run."
The portable version leaves no driver behind, just tested it.

@kc: I used to do sysadmin for a small non-profit org. 7 pc's and 2 printers, no big deal. I carried all my tools on a pendrive. Off course I had admin-rights, but this is a typical scenario a lot of us are in, so it's not entirely useless, portable is the way to go for sysadmins ;)

kleinkinstein on 2014-03-22 13:09

CPUZ is old, tired and practically useless. It's heyday was about six years ago. Speccy is a must for today.

appsuser on 2019-09-03 23:47

The customized versions for different board manufacturers (on the home page) are also portable (download the zip package). The customized versions include the manufacturer's logo as a window background and theme.

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paint.net v5.1.2 Updated

Ennovy on 20 Dec 2024
  • 208MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by nunoleite

paint.net is an image and photo editing software with support for layers, unlimited undo, image effects and a tabbed thumbnail interface. The program includes a variety of paint bushes and selection tools as well as image filters such as sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise etc.

The program supports plugins and will automatically start in 64-bit within an operating system that supports it.

Use 4.3.12 for: Windows 7 (32/64-bit) [with Platform Update], 8.1 (32/64-bit), or 10 (32-bit). It can be downloaded from here or here.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Writes to C:\Users\~\AppData\Local\paint.net
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package (go with x86 if you're not sure which one to choose) and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch paintdotnet.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: GIMP, PhotoFiltre, PhotoDemon, PixBuilder Studio
What's new? See: https://blog.getpaint.net/category/update-news/
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2022-05-24 23:53

The website reports: NOTE for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and 32-bit/x86 users: Paint.NET v4.3.x will be the last release(s) that work on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or on any 32-bit/x86 version of Windows(........)Starting with Paint.NET v4.4, only Windows 10 and 11+ will be supported, and only on 64-bit (x64 and ARM64). Updates for 4.3.x will be released on an as-needed basis until v4.4 is completed.

shiny on 2024-12-05 11:31

so, where is 32-bit?

Ennovy on 2024-12-05 12:15

@shiny: only 64-bit is supported. I removed the 32-bit downloadlink

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RSS Guard v4.8.0 Updated

Ennovy on 19 Dec 2024
  • 232MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by smaragdus

RSS Guard is a customizable, skinnable feed reader with a tabbed interface. It can fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM and store them in a nested list, keyboard shortcuts, notification settings, gesture support and more.

Only available for 64-bit Windows. Cross-platform, supporting a wide array of operating systems (Linux, OS X, *BSD, and more).

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: All custom dependencies are packed in the archive. If user wants to use MySQL backend, then he/she has to have MySQL server running.
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch rssguard.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary translations to save space.
Similar/alternative apps: QuiteRSS, GreatNews, FeedReader, NFReader
What's new? See: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases
Latest comments
rbon on 2019-08-19 16:52

I suggest specifying that the file to download to get the portable version is:
-> rssguard-3.5.9-565b07a-nowebengine-win64.7z
direct link: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases/download/3.5.9/rssguard-3.5.9-565b07a-nowebengine-win64.7z

B.T.W.
program is working on Windows 32/64 bit.

Prompt24 on 2022-04-29 17:03

The best of many others. I recommend for sure. Thanks a lot.

kowcop on 2023-01-13 17:06

Has anyone found a way to auto mark feeds or articles as read? In most other readers, there is an option to mark as read when you navigate away from the feed

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RedNotebook v2.37 Updated

Ennovy on 18 Dec 2024
  • 277MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Hydaral

RedNotebook is a modern journal that includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and a "cloud" box containing frequently used words and tags. The program also includes spell check, formatting, insert images, files and links, automatic backup, templates, export to multiple formats. You can also format, tag and search your entries. Your data is stored in plain text files - no database needed.

Cross-platform and available in more than 30 languages. Alternatively, RedNotebook Portable is stealth, smaller, re-opens your last journal and has faster startup times. The outdated X-RedNotebook is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Creates:
%userprofile%\webkit\icondatabase\WebpageIcons.db
%userprofile%\.recently-used.xbel
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the contents of {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Open \files\default.cfg with a text editor and change "portable=0" to "portable=1"
  4. Launch rednotebook.exe

Problems? This process requires an up-to-date component (Innounp 0.36 or above) for Universal Extractor. If you have difficulty extracting the files, follow the steps below and retry:

  1. Download the latest version of Innounp
  2. Extract the RAR package to the \bin folder of Universal Extractor, overwriting the existing innounp.exe
What's new? See: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Latest comments
Checker on 2012-11-06 17:51

Uups, sorry.
Changed back to v1.5.0

smaragdus on 2017-06-11 06:08

I cannot find RedNotebook version 2.0 for Windows (as of 2017-06-11):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rednotebook/files/
it seems that currently it is available for Linux only.
The latest version available for Windows is 1.15.

ashghost on 2017-09-09 01:36

@smaragdus: Version 2.2 was recently released for Windows according to changelog here: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/blob/master/CHANGELOG

The project seems to have moved to GitHub. Downloads (Windows .exe and source archives) are here: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/releases. The link to Windows versions on the website now links to there.

I have not tested it for portability.

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ThisIsMyFile v4.38 Updated

Andrew Lee on 17 Dec 2024
  • 302KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by billon

ThisIsMyFile is a program for unlocking protected files or folders. The program can delete stubborn files or remove them at system reboot, as well as make a copy for further analysis.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty text file and name it ThisIsMyFile.ini
  3. Launch ThisIsMyFile.exe or ThisIsMyFile_x64.exe (for 64-bit OS)
Similar/alternative apps: Unlocker, FileASSASSIN
What's new? See:https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/ThisIsMyFile/History
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2018-01-20 12:03

Could not "unlock" or delete 3 files I tried :(
MIKLO

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CrystalDiskMark v8.0.6 Updated

Andrew Lee on 17 Dec 2024
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Nov 2024
  • Suggested by malikorx69

CrystalDiskMark is benchmarks disk performance, measuring sequential and random 4KB/512KB reads/writes for any storage device. The target device does not need to be formatted.

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

Alternatively, CrystalDiskMark Portable is also available, which auto-switches between x86 and x64.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskMark32.exe or DiskMark64.exe (for 64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: HD Tune, IsMyHdOK
What's new? See: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/crystaldiskmark-history/
Latest comments
Checker on 2015-08-01 18:52

@ smaragdus: First mentioned by malikorx69 [07 Feb 2008], so this is the forum topic.
guinness post is dated [09 Nov 2009].
I agree to merge the two, but malikorx69's should be first!

AndTheWolf on 2016-11-07 21:09

CrystalDiskinfo should not be listed under Similar/alternative apps for CrystalDiskMark. CrystalLDiskMark benchmarks, whereas CrystalDiskinfo supplies a lot of disk information, but does NOT benchmark.

webfork on 2019-10-07 21:39

A remarkable number of commercial disks are benchmarked using this tool. It's a must-have for comparing hardware performance.

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EssentialPIM Free v12.1.2 Updated

Ennovy on 17 Dec 2024
  • 25MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

EssentialPIM includes a calendar/scheduler, todo list, contact manager, basic e-mail client, and tree-like multi-level notes tool that supports rich text, formatting and images.

While many advanced functions such as synchronization and encryption are exclusive in the Pro version, the program is capable of manually importing from variety of formats including Outlook, TreePad, Google calendar etc. Additionally, it can export to many formats including HTML, vCard, iCal, RTF, CSV, iPod, text etc.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract: 1. Download the installer, run and choose "Portable version". Launch EssentialPIM.exe.
2. Goto Tools / Options / General and disable Help improve EssentialPIM by sending anonymous usage statistics
3. Optionally: Delete unnecessary language files.
What's new? See: https://www.essentialpim.com/blog-and-news/version-history
Latest comments
gjsmith1949 on 2020-10-24 15:09

I have used this PIM for many years however since Yahoo inflicted their new security measures I have been unable to download messages from my Yahoo account, I have followed all the instructions provided by Yahoo to add Essential PIM to the list of message services but to no avail.

Even Anton at Astonsoft could not help as his recommendations were exactly the same as those from Yahoo.

DzejPy on 2020-10-26 09:34

EssentialPIM free since version 9 can not add e-mail account Google (Gmail) or Microsoft (Outlook) - fails 2-step verification (OAuth).
Version 8 can do it...
Tested repeated on different computers and operating systems.

FireRabbit on 2021-12-14 00:27

PSA: I've tested both Outlook and Yahoo in version 10 and they both work fine for me.

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MiTeC EXE Explorer v3.7.4 Updated

Ennovy on 17 Dec 2024
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by juvera

MiTeC EXE Explorer reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types, as well as .NET executables.

The program identify compiler and packer/protector, enumerates introduced classes, used units and forms for files compiled by Borland compilers. It contains powerfull Resource Viewer that is able to abalyze and display all basic resouce types and some extra ones as JPEG, PNG, GIF, AVI, REGISTRY and Type Library viewer that enumerates all objects and creates import interface unit in Object Pascal language. Every type of resource can be saved to file.

Program data can be output to a text report.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: If "File | Persistent Layout" option is enabled, an INI file will be written to '%APPDATA%\MITEC\EXE Explorer'. Also writes to the Registry when "File | Shell Integration" is enabled (saved to 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\EXE Explorer').
Stealth: ? Yes. But only without persistent layout or shell integration; otherwise see "Writes settings to" above.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch EXE.exe or EXE64.exe (for 64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: PPEE, PEAnatomist, pestudio
What's new? See: https://mitec.cz/exe.html#VersionHistory
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CornHolio the Gringo on 2018-02-06 16:27

All MiTeC software that I use, writes to registry.
MiTeC HexEdit 6.1.0
MiTeC Icon Explorer 4.2.0
MiTeC Mail Viewer 2.3.0
MiTeC Network Scanner 4.0

Therefore Ive used JauntePE060Nightly to make it true stealth.

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foobar2000 v2.24.1 Updated

Midas on 16 Dec 2024
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Barrette

foobar2000 is an audio player with low memory footprint and native support for most popular audio formats. It includes CD ripping, format conversion, replay gain, audio normalization, equalization and more. Playlist display and keyboard shortcuts are both very customisable. Additional functionality available via a wide variety of plugins.

The program can edit song tags (album and song name, number, year etc.) based on the FreeDB Internet database and even rename the original songs based on these tags. A file format conversion tool is available, but must be enabled with external downloads. Can even fix some MP3s with corrupted file headers.

Windows 2000 users can download the last compatible version: 0.9.4.
Windows XP and Vista users, download last version from 1.5 series.

Category:
Runs on: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: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and launch
  2. Select "Portable installation" and choose the destination folder
  3. Launch foobar2000.exe
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1, Boom, Winyl
What's new? See: https://foobar2000.org/changelog.
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2023-04-26 15:52

64bit available on download page, see https://foobar.hyv.fi/2.0/?sort=modified&dir=r for 64bit components. 32bit will not work.

Ennovy on 2023-04-26 16:12

@PAFuser: added the 64bit downloadlink, thanks.

freakazoid on 2023-06-10 00:59

PSA: For older users, use the 32-bit version of v2.0 for now.

v1.6 was 32-bit only and v2.0 has a 64-bit version. I upgraded to the 64-bit version of v2.0 and found that most of my custom components stopped working because the component does not have a 64-bit version yet.

Easiest way to get everything working again is to use the 32-bit version of v2.0 until all your favorite components have a 64-bit version.

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Katalog v2.3 New

joby_toss on 15 Dec 2024
  • 37MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

Katalog is a desktop application to manage catalogs of disks and files:
- Create catalogs from different sources or devices,
- Search files even when the devices are disconnected, and find duplicates or differences
- Organize your Collection of catalogs, Storage devices, and Virtual storage devices and get Statistics,
- Data is stored in csv (tab separated) files for full control by the user,
- Available in English, French, Czech, and German
- OpenSource and cross-platform (Linux Plasma and Windows 64 installer or portable).

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Qt registry entries left behind, but no app settings.
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the latest portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Katalog.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Cathy, Librer, Virtual Volumes View

Tablacus Explorer v24.12.9 Updated

Andrew Lee on 14 Dec 2024
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by am Baas

Tablacus Explorer is a quad-pane file manager that supports tabs, mouse gestures, favorites, filters and different view styles. Its functionality can be extended via plug-ins which can be installed and updated from within the program.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TE32.exe or TE64.exe depending on your OS.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: Q-Dir
What's new? See: https://github.com/tablacus/TablacusExplorer/releases
Latest comments
rfithen on 2020-04-20 10:19

Am I msising something? The Devs changelog always says "Some fix". lol.

aazard on 2020-11-26 00:54

Tablacus Explorer is very powerful >>> in the way of plugins (see for yourself)

It can be a simple, but very well made, file manager or mid-weight IDE to replace gVIM/Geany (seriously)

If you want a file manager, explorer commander or QDir are very nice, fast & light with good features

BUT if your a "power user"..YOU WANT THIS APP

aazard on 2020-11-26 00:56

Missing Plugins Link, because that's this apps "thing":
https://tablacus.github.io/TablacusExplorerAddons/

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MultiClipBoardSlots v3.35 Updated

Andrew Lee on 14 Dec 2024
  • 310KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by billon

MultiClipBoardSlots allows you to extend the Clipboard for up to 10 clipboard storage slots to easily insert text, images and other objects between the programs via freely selectable Windows shortcut. The program doesn't lose the contents of the Clipboard Slots because the default Clipboard will be overwritten by other programs.

The keyboard shortcuts for the Clipboard Memory Slots are predefined, but always can be individually adjusted.

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. Create file MultiClipBoardSlots.ini. Launch MultiClipBoardSlots.exe.
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/MultiClipBoardSlots/History
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2016-11-22 11:26

Sorry but this is not for me, though I like some other titles from this designer.

I have to remember what text is in what clipboardslot and with what hotkey I have to copy paste. I prefer a conventional clipboard tool like Ethervane Echo

smaragdus on 2016-11-22 19:52

I concur with Ennovy, I have no use for this tool either, I have tested most of the utilities by SoftwareOK and I like and use many of them, MultiClipBoardSlots is the first one I find to be rather awkward.

MIKLO on 2018-01-18 09:45

As others have said I use and like other titles the designer has made, but sorry this is to much to remember where and what I entered. It really is a good idea just doesn't work 4me, thanks for the work you have done it is appreciated very much.
MIKLO

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ColorConsole v7.17 Updated

Andrew Lee on 14 Dec 2024
  • 383KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by guinness

ColorConsole is an enhanced console with changeable font, style and color. Features include sizable window, multi-tabs, copy/paste/cut function, a fast folder switch, and export to RTF and HTML.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ColorcConsole_Portable.exe or ColorConsole_x64_p.exe (for 64-bit OS).
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/ColorConsole/History
Latest comments
Peter202 on 2014-07-04 13:05

What is the template to add commands to the menu list? Whatever i try it doesn't work.

Anyone knows about other cmd replacement that allows you to save commands?

Midas on 2014-07-04 17:45

JPsoft 4DOS/4NT (currently renamed to Take Command) allows you to set up persistent "alias", just check the documentation...

Peter202 on 2014-07-05 07:55

Thanks!

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jaBuT Backup v2024.04.39018 Updated

joby_toss on 14 Dec 2024
  • 57MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by smaragdus

jaBuT (just another Backup Tool) Backup is an flexible and powerful backup and synchronization program. It supports different processing modes including copy, move, and compress both with and without file comparison, as well as mirror and sync. The program includes exclusion/inclusion of processed data, a variety of profile options, scheduled execution and a variety of file comparison options.

Supports batch processing, GUI customization, rich tray control, command-line options, and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Cardware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch jaBuT.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Back4Sure, Directory Compare, DirSync Pro, Zback
What's new? See:
https://jabut.de/changelog-en.php

[-]Version 2024.04.39018: (2024-04-26) (Changes: 1)
*Added support for 7z LZMA2 compression method (default compression method) (thanks to Alexander K.)

[-]Version 2024.03.39010: (2024-03-10) (Changes: 2)
*Fixed an issue which caused a wrong notification toast message caption when minimising the program to the system tray
*Fixed an issue which caused the program to restore from system tray when executing a profile by shortcut or command prompt (thanks to Rick F.)

[-]Version 2024.02.38999: (2024-02-18) (Changes: 10)
*Added ability to save and load last window state (maximised, normal state and tray) (thanks to vevy)
*Added ability to show and hide profile list columns (first version) (thanks to vevy)
*Removed functionality which allowed the program to pause all profiles when Windows does in standby mode (due to incompatibilities)
*Fixed an issue which caused to trigger the "Do you really want to close this window" window when opening a profile for editing (thanks to vevy)
*Fixed an issue which caused the profile group captions and images to move up and down when selecting a group
*Fixed an issue which could cause existing profile groups to be added
*Fixed an issue which caused displaying a second "Program in tray" notification when opening e.g. profile settings
*Fixed an issue which caused the progress in tray window not displaying the correct source and destination paths
*Fixed an issue which caused a profile to display an error icon when cancelling before executing it
*Fixed an issue which caused the feature "Backup files to be deleted" not to work
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jabuTBackup on 2019-02-11 07:32

Recent statement
--- I am developing jaBuT 32 bit only because to compile it in 64 bit too it would be cost a bunch of money to get a proper developer licence ---

jaBuT Backup is now 32 bit and 64 bit due to some licence changes.

FireRabbit on 2020-12-08 20:21

When I first found jaBuT I liked it and thought it was working, until I realized that it stops working every time you sleep/wake your computer unless you manually restart it. unfortunately I realized that after I needed to recover files I thought it was baking up.

I reported this to the developer to learn that jaBuT is made this way by design. No backup program I have ever used [besides this one] is made to stop working when you sleep your computer, and I was not expecting that behavior at all.

For me I have moved to Backup4Sure and am quite happy with it, and unlike jaBuT it has actually saved my files when I needed it to save my files.

That said I still think jaBuT is a decent program for the right tasks, though I would be very hesitant to ever trust it again. It's always hard to trust again after you've been burned, especially when you've found something that works for you.

lintalist on 2020-12-12 16:12

@FireRabbit new update seems to fix your issue

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MeinPlatz v8.38 Updated

Ennovy on 14 Dec 2024
  • 920KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by lautrepay

MeinPlatz scans the hard disk for lost disk space. Results can be printed using integrated print preview and variable aspect ratio, as well as a small screen magnifier. The results can be exported to XLS, HTML, CSV and TXT.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Leaves an empty folder in %APPDATA%
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MeinPlatz.exe.
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/MeinPlatz/History
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2015-09-01 18:07

Yes, it already says so in the Stealth field.

smaragdus on 2015-09-01 20:52

@joby_toss
Thanks, I missed to read the description. :(

TP109 on 2019-02-15 09:43

A handy program that is especially good for scanning and analyzing individual directories. Displays data such as size on disk, number of files/subfolders, folder/file sizes, path lengths, file dates, and other useful information for each entry under the selected drive or folder.

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Sigil Portable v2.1.0 Updated

Ennovy on 13 Dec 2024
  • 344MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by ChemZ

Sigil is a tabbed editor for the EPUB format commonly used in eBooks. The program includes basic formatting, customizable fonts and styles, hotkeys and spellcheck. You can generate a table of contents, embed files (audio, video, or other), edit/add metadata, rearrange or split pages, add vector (SVG) images and available "clips" for frequently entered text.

As the format is based on simple HTML, the program includes a WYSIWYG-style book vs. code view, the ability to modify cascading style sheets and additional functionality via plugins. The program can even shrink some eBooks by discarding unused media elements.

Cross-platform with clients for Linux, Mac and supports many languages. Sigil Portable is a wrapper version of the program and an outdated X-Sigil is also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch SigilPortable.exe.

Optionally, the user guide is available as a separate download.
Similar/alternative apps: KompoZer
What's new? See: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases

Textadept v12.5 Updated

Ennovy on 13 Dec 2024
  • 38MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Midas

Textadept is a minimalist programmer’s text editor featuring split views, themes, auto-complete. Also features syntax highlighting, advanced search, and bookmarks.

Cross-platform with versions available for Mac OSX, Linux, and BSD.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch textadept.exe -u .\data
What's new? See: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/changelog.html

QOwnNotes v24.12.3 Updated

Ennovy on 13 Dec 2024
  • 64MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2024
  • 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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Shortcuts Search And Replace v2.5.1 Updated

Stephen Leibowitz on 12 Dec 2024
  • 945KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by guinness

Shortcuts Search And Replace is a tool for system shortcuts that lets you:

  • Search for shortcuts target path, working directory, arguments, and icon location content.
  • Replace multiple shortcuts' target paths, working directories, arguments, and icon location content (useful if you move portable applications paths or directory).
  • Search for dead links to resolve or delete them (multiple resolves/delete in one click).

Alternatively, Shortcuts Search and Replace Portable is also available.

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: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ShortcutsSearchAndReplace.exe or ShortcutsSearchAndReplace64.exe.
What's new? History

EmEditor Free v24.5 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Dec 2024
  • 184MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by smaragdus

EmEditor is a tabbed text editor with themes, syntax highlighting, stay-on-top and customizable keyboard mapping. The program supports batch find-and-replace, regular expressions and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Internet Explorer v11
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch EmEditor.exe.

Skip the 30-day evaluation of the full version by selecting the Help menu and click Downgrade.
Similar/alternative apps: Notepad++
What's new? See: https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/history/new-in-version-24-5/
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2018-05-05 05:26

Thanks guys.

shiny on 2024-10-02 09:06

24.3.2 on website

Ennovy on 2024-10-04 02:04

@shiny: thanks. Downloadlink is still v24.3.2 so I changed the entry again

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Audacity v3.7.1 Updated

Ennovy on 12 Dec 2024
  • 26MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Audacity is a multi-track sound recorder and editor with support for most audio formats and sophisticated effects such as noise removal and studio reverb. Users can record live audio, compress or convert file types, as well as cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.

Cross platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.

Alternatively, Audacity Portable and an outdated X-Audacity are also available.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty folder and name it Portable Settings in the same directory
  3. Launch Audacity.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Wavosaur
What's new? See: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
Latest comments
anon2219 on 2021-12-29 23:12

My understanding is that data collection concerns can be disabled: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213#issuecomment-892556317

Ultra7ven on 2021-12-31 13:06

After years of not being able to just drop-in a recent version of ffmpeg in Audacity's application folder, you can finally just do that.

Tried on recent version Audacity_x64 with ffmpeg_x64 (needs the shared builds) and it works! Just have to update location folder of ffmpeg on main gui.

Audacity-win-3.1.3-64bit.zip

ffmpeg-4.4.1-full_build-shared.7z https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

[ Audacity ]
[ ffmpeg ]
avcodec-58.dll
avdevice-58.dll
avfilter-7.dll
avformat-58.dll
avutil-56.dll
ffmpeg.exe
ffplay.exe
ffprobe.exe
postproc-55.dll
swresample-3.dll
swscale-5.dll
[ help ]
[ Languages ]
[ modules ]
[ nyquist ]
[ plug-ins ]
Audacity.exe
.
.
.

NB: on the portableapps version I replaced the old ffmpeg binaries with new versions, and it works too.

freakazoid on 2021-12-31 16:28

@Ultra7ven - I have a forum post written up about how to set ffmpeg as a portable relative path: https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=101359#p101359

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SearchMyFiles v3.31 Updated

Andrew Lee on 11 Dec 2024

SearchMyFiles is a powerful alternative to the standard Windows search. It allows you to easily find files by wildcard, last modified/created/last accessed time, file attributes, content (text or binary search) and file size. File types available for search includes Microsoft Office and PDF files. The program also be detect duplicate files via the "Search Mode" drop-down box.

Note that the program is non-indexing, meaning it searches the drive directly, which is often slower but more accurate.

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 SearchMyFiles.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: SwiftSearch
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles crashed when it failed to retrieve the file owner properly.
Latest comments
Checker on 2014-08-14 18:34

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

MIKLO on 2018-04-06 14:57

I have tried and used several search apps before and was not very impressed but as soon as I saw that this product was from NirSoft I knew I had to try it. NirSoft makes so many great apps that I use a lot, its difficult to say something new about them due to the fact that just about everything they make works great and is pretty awesome overall. One thing is 4sure the native Micro$oft search engine is close to worthless, so just about anything will be an improvement.
MIKLO

freakazoid on 2022-01-11 16:08

The latest version is such a welcome addition as it allows you to set the font and size used in the search results.

My eyes are not what they once was, so increasing the font size makes things much more legible for me especially when sitting far back in my chair!

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CCleaner Free v6.31.11415 Updated Adware

Ennovy on 11 Dec 2024
  • 159MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Ennovy

NOTE: Recent press about CCleaner indicates it may represent a privacy concern.

CCleaner is a feature-rich system optimization and privacy tool. The program cleans unused, temporary and log files from your system, as well as traces of online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. The program contains startup controls for Windows, major internet browsers and context menu entries. Includes a separate registry cleaner, duplicate search, system restore tool and can wipe both deleted files and drive free space for security.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder). Monitoring functions are only available in the pro version.

Additional cleaner rules can be using an unofficial set of community-developed set. It should be noted that many of these rules are alpha and the developers will not provide support for these rules, a thread in the users forum is dedicated to supporting the add-on rules.

Alternatively, ccPortable is also available.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete License.txt and unnecessary language files
  3. Launch CCleaner.exe or CCleaner64.exe (for 64-bit OS)

If the "Portable" ZIP package is not yet available:
  1. Download the installer and extract CCleaner.exe or CCleaner64.exe and necessary language files using 7-Zip to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a file named ccleaner.ini in the same folder
  3. Launch CCleaner.exe or CCleaner64.exe (for 64-bit OS)

Don't forget to disable usage data sharing in 'Options' - 'Privacy'.
Similar/alternative apps: BleachBit, PrivaZer
What's new? See: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/version-history
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2022-08-27 15:06

I confirm writing to the registry (Windows 11):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Piriform
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Piriform

shiny on 2024-03-13 10:21

not allowed to run in my region. Goodbye=)

Midas on 2024-03-13 10:27

@shiny: knowing which region that is could help others...

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Unicodia v2.9.3 Updated

Ennovy on 11 Dec 2024
  • 142MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by Llewelyn

Unicodia is a simple Unicode encyclopedia and replacement for Character Map.

  • In Windows 10/11 — all characters of Unicode 15 are supported.
  • In Windows 7 — all characters of Base Multilingual Plane, plus Phoenician, Aramaic and Brahmi.
  • Shows if the character is supported in your system, and if so — which font.
  • Copy character codes in HTML, UTF-8 and UTF-16.
  • Simple search.
  • Little emoji reference.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL 3.0
How to extract:
  1. Download the 7zip package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Open the Unicodia.xml file and replace the string portable="0" with portable="1".
  3. Launch Unicodia.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: BabelMap Portable
What's new? See: https://github.com/Mercury13/unicodia/releases

Task Manager DeLuxe v4.8.7 Updated

Ennovy on 11 Dec 2024
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Dec 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Task Manager DeLuxe is a powerful alternative to the native Windows Task Manager, offering detailed monitoring and efficient administration and manipulation of processes, windows, services, sessions, startup entries, environment and system performance.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
If TMI.ini does not appear in the application folder, writes to AppData.
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. Create an empty text file in the same folder and name it TMX.ini or TMX64.ini (for 64-bit OS)
  3. Launch TMX.exe (for 32-bit OS) or TMX64.exe (for 64-bit OS)
Note that settings are discarded on exit.
What's new? See: https://mitec.cz/Data/XML/data_tmxvh.xml
Latest comments
Midas on 2018-08-07 07:06

Thanks for reporting, rqqt.

webfork on 2018-08-13 14:13

rqqt: confirmed, updated entry with additional instructions. Thanks for the note.

REVerdi on 2020-01-11 08:58

Correction:
2. Create an empty text file in the same folder and name it TMX.ini (for 32-bit OS) or TMX64.ini (for 64-bit OS)

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