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.
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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 |
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tomcat
on 2023-09-12 03:38
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Settings > Power Options > Power & sleep > Sleep (&/or Screen): select value from 1 min to never. |
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.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 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 |
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__philippe
on 2013-08-03 11:25
Alternative: Rob Keir's minuscule Timer.exe (8k), including a more subdued display.
__philippe
on 2013-08-04 16:15
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Please see also Timer related forum post: |
Shutter is a customizable program that lets you perform a variety of actions when a user-specified event occurs. Events include timer countdown, a certain time trigger, low CPU usage, user inactivity, a low battery etc. The corresponding actions include shutdown, reboot, logoff, lock workstation, sleep, hibernate etc.
The program can play a custom sound and/or run a program of your choice, in addition to displaying a user-configurable message. A web interface is also available that permits remote execution of one of a list of actions.
Note: A pro version is available without the limitation of 5 presets, events and actions.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use/Liteware |
How to extract: |
Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Shutter.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
What's new? | See: https://www.den4b.com/news |
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smaragdus
on 2013-09-05 17:50
Shutter version 3.3 is no longer FreeWare for non-commercial use, it is now CrippleWare- Shutter Lite.
freakazoid
on 2014-04-24 17:07
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Recently, I upgraded to Windows 8.1 Update 1 and had trouble waking up the computer from sleep. |
System Scheduler Free schedules unattended running of applications, batch files, scripts etc. Intended as a replacement for Windows' own scheduler, the program adds more flexibility and features including popup reminders for appointments, reminders, and events that can be set to run once or every minute, hour, day, week, month, or year.
The program also includes it's own scripting tools for mouse, keyboard and other operations. Additional features are available in it's "Pro" version described on the home page.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Last window location is written to Windows registry, while the scheduler database is written to the local directory. |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Liteware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | TimeComX |
What's new? |
See: https://splinterware.com/info/news.html |
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FireRabbit
on 2021-01-26 13:42
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Almost useful to me, but too many important features are locked under the pro version and $30 is too steep for what I'm doing with it. |
RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify. This utility doesn't change the current system date and time of your computer, but it only injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application.
You can run multiple applications simultaneously, each application works with different date and time, while the real date/time of your system continues to run normally.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RunAsDate.exe. |
What's new? |
You can now attach to a process from command-line. You can specify the process filename or process ID, for example: RunAsDate.exe 25\04\2005 17:12:15 Attach:Outlook.exe RunAsDate.exe 25\04\2005 17:12:15 Attach:2756 |
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MIKLO
on 2016-10-10 16:18
I really find this program useful just like most all NIRSOFT products :)
smaragdus
on 2016-10-14 00:20
A new version 1.31 of RunAsDate, which fixes the discrepancy between version number and file version number, has been released, for more information see this forum post:
tomcat
on 2022-06-11 06:55
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From the developer’s site, for those who entertain a similar thought: |
UK's Kalender is a personal calendar that sits in the system tray and reminds you of upcoming events or deadlines. Events can be displayed in weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly view. They can also be organized into different categories with their own settings. Documents or programs can be attached to an event so that they are automatically launched when the event fires. The program also allows sharing via network (multi-user).
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Kalender.exe. |
What's new? |
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smaragdus
on 2015-10-11 00:22
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The missing forum thread- http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=107 |
KShutdown is a system scheduling tool to turn off, restart, hibernate, sleep, or log off a computer. It can also lock the screen, show a custom message, or execute a user-defined command at a specified time. The program features various time and delay options, command-line support and notifications.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch kshutdown.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | TimeComX Basic, PShutDown, Poweroff |
What's new? |
See: https://kshutdown.sourceforge.io/releases/ |
Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination) allows you to build profiles that can launch or close programs and services. Supports drag-and-drop, hotkeys, process priority, and includes the ability to open specific files, folders, URLs, and even other Splat profiles. The program can aggressively close (kill) applications that may not shut down normally or add delays of time, CPU usage, or whether the previous program has closed yet.
Great for a computer startup sequence that won't slow down your computer or for switching between different separate program groups (such switching from a view all your financial programs, data, and files to all your photo/video editing tools)
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Runs on: | Win7 |
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 Splat.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Lacuna Launcher |
What's new? |
Applause for "Best new portable freeware of 2015" ! |
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webfork
on 2015-01-18 22:43
I very quickly integrated this into the startup sequence on both of my main machines. Great to get multiple portable software up and running in a system-friendly way.
Midas
on 2015-01-19 13:16
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Thanks, webfork. Your comment made me realize that Splat can be used as a start-up manager... duh! |
TimeComX is a small and resource-friendly automation program, that can execute various actions after specified time or by a lower deviation of network and processor usage activity. User can Restart, Shutdown, Log Off, Lock, Hibernate, Suspend and Wake, Play any type of audio-file (mp3, ogg, wma, wav...), as well as file execution (e.g. batch files).
Optionally, you can let TimeComX make a screenshot before the action starts.
NOTE: Site offline, linking to Softpedia and archive.org.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | DShutdown |
What's new? |
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daren_rupert
on 2010-10-05 11:40
@Midas did you enable hibernation via "powercfg -h on" as administrator? It worked perfectly for me and now TimeComX shows hibernation as well as sleep mode.
Onesimus Prime
on 2020-04-22 01:42
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In need of a timer program, I just tried to use this one portably. The previous instructions (i.e. just portable "out of the box" once extracted) didn't work, nor did creating an .ini (mentioned in comments here for a previous version) or manually moving its settings files to a profiles or config subfolder or the app folder itself. |
Mozilla Sunbird is a calendar client that supports the creation of scheduled events and the ability to get an overview of events on a particular day, week or month. The calendar can be shared by publishing it to a WebDAV-capable server.
Sunbird Portable is a portablized build of Sunbird.
Note:
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MPL (Sunbird), GPL (launcher) |
How to extract: | Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SunbirdPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | SeaMonkey |
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Luis
on 2007-12-03 01:39
17MB for a calendar program is to much ...
webfork
on 2017-05-13 22:19
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I recently used this program to parse out an ICS file with a bunch of duplicates and data that wouldn't show up properly in other viewers. The export to HTML and CSV was enormously helpful. Even though it hasn't been updated in over a decade, it still works great. |