Latest entries (500)

IrfanView v4.67 Updated

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

IrfanView is a viewer for a wide variety of image, audio and video formats. The program includes batch processing, creation of panoramic images, edition of multi-page TIFF files, lossless JPEG rotate/crop and effects such as sharpen and blur. Other tools such as screen capture, scanner, slideshow, plugin support and ability to capture icons from EXE or DLL.

Alternatively, IrfanView Portable is also available and updates drive letters and handles registry keys.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use (the installer is adware)
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Optionally, delete iv_uninstall.exe
  3. Launch i_view32.exe or i_view64.exe (for 64-bit OS)
Note: Optionally, for more advanced support download the plugins ZIP package and extract the contents to the Plugins sub-folder. Plugins add more than 20 megs to the size and support for more graphics, audio, video and more. Plugins for OCR and PDF tools are available as a separate download -- see the thread in forums on how to enable them with portable installations.
Similar/alternative apps: XnView, Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer
What's new? See: https://www.irfanview.com/main_history.htm
Latest comments
Andrew Lee on 2022-12-11 05:23

@Cornflower: Seems like the 32-bit ZIP is also available now. I have updated both download links.

Cornflower on 2023-12-10 08:43

Also note that virtually every new release updates some plugins, and version 4.65 is no exception. Most users may want to go to https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm and download the 32- or 64-bit package, and dump them into the Irfanview Plugins subdirectory.

Cornflower on 2024-04-05 13:40

I notice in 4.67 that the OCR plugin is updated. It suggests using the Tesseract OCR, which I suspect is not portable. When I test it I will be looking to see if it can be made portable, and if it works with 32-bit Irfanview (there are a number of limitations with the 64-bit Irfanview so I am staying there).

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CherryTree v1.1.2 Updated

Ennovy on 5 Apr 2024
  • 371MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

CherryTree is an hierarchical note-taking application. It features rich-text formatting, syntax highlighting, spell-checking, image insertion and password protection. Data is stored in a single XML or SQLite file. Import from plaintext, HTML or your favorite note-taker, including Zim, Treepad, Keynote, Mempad and RedNotebook. Export to PDF, HTML or plaintext files.

Cross platform with versions available for Linux. CherryTree Portable is a portable wrapper for CherryTree.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes. However, enabling spell-checking creates the folder "enchant" in AppData\Local
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the "portable" 7z package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty text file in the portable folder root beside license.txt and name it config.cfg
  3. From the bin directory, launch cherrytree.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Flashnote
What's new? See: https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree/blob/master/changelog.txt
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2023-12-17 09:47

How to extract 2. should be: "for portable config put config.cfg in portable folder root, beside license.txt" Source: https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/#downl
Look for: Microsoft windows portable archive.
Otherwise settings are written to the user profile folder

Andrew Lee on 2023-12-20 07:08

@Ennovy: Though worded slightly differently, they seem to mean the same thing? Basically just create an empty "config.cfg" in the root folder, a rather typical technique used by many other portable apps.

Ennovy on 2023-12-20 08:47

@Andrew: I had already changed it. Before that the instruction was to create the config file in the bin directory which is incorrect.

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MetarWeather v1.78 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Apr 2024
  • 257KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by guinness

MetarWeather decodes weather reports from around the world and displays them in a simple weather report table. You can export the weather report into text, HTML or XML files. MetarWeather can decode METAR-format reports from a text file, or download the latest reports.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / 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 mweather.exe.
What's new?
  • Updated the links under the Links menu.
Latest comments
TP109 on 2012-04-15 00:06

Extremely fast and lightweight. Use this more than any other weather app. Makes it easy to compare weather reports from multiple areas.

IanFromBarrie on 2017-09-10 15:51

AVG quarantined this when I installed - triggered by AVG's "behaviour shield".

webfork on 2017-09-11 04:01

@IanFromBarrie: please post about virus threats to the forums. Thanks.

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12-Ants v6.35 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Apr 2024
  • 374KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

12-Ants or more for your desktop. Itching is not excluded. Watching the little rascals and have fun.

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 12-Ants_p.exe or 12-Ants_x64_p.exe (for 64-bit OS).
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/12-Ants/History
Latest comments
mrpink on 2011-12-11 20:21

I know. I thought you guys might have a trick to make it stealth

joby_toss on 2011-12-12 05:26

@mrpink: you could use JauntePE to take care of those registry keys; or some other wrapper.

mrpink on 2011-12-19 13:27

There's two more from the same site (didn't bother to look at the main page), cockroach and ladybug lol. David Pi has made a launcher for all 3 of them

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4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls v4.71 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Apr 2024
  • 63KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls generates 8 or more balls to follow the mouse pointer on your windows desktop.

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 4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls_p.exe or 4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls_x64_p.exe (for 64-bit OS).
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls/History
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2013-11-02 17:50

Great program!
@Checker
Can fun be pointless?

Checker on 2013-11-02 18:48

@ smaragdus: In this case it couldn't be point-less ;)

smaragdus on 2014-03-29 23:07

@Checker
I should confess that I love pointless things created for the sake of being pointless, which is not pointless;)

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GnuCash Portable v5.6 Updated

Andrew Lee on 4 Apr 2024
  • 227MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by Arithmomaniac

GnuCash is accounting software that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. Features include bank/liability/expense accounts, stock/bond/mutual fund accounts, small-business accounting (customers, vendors, jobs, invoices, accounts payable/receivable), import from QIF/OFX/HBCI formats, transaction matching, scheduled transactions etc.

GnuCash Portable is a portable version of the official program.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrative rights (if online banking features are used)
Stealth: ? No. Online banking features may leave non-personal information in the registry if a local version of GnuCash is also installed
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GnuCashPortable.exe.
What's new? See: https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml
Latest comments
Carlos on 2009-03-04 09:29

I have an example... I've been working with GnuCash since a couple of months; before that I used to keep my personal accounting using Excel, but after two years I found some drawbacks. If you want the example just write me. caenleve@yahoo.com

Pablo on 2011-04-05 13:26

Gnucash is a full ledger system, and has features geared towards small businesses.

jtemple on 2023-10-07 09:34

Version 5.4 is not shutting down fully when the application is closed. The process continues running in the background and must be killed manually.

Killing it manually causes a warning from the PortableApps launcher the next time you launch it stating that the app was not closed properly.

I rolled back to 5.3, which does not have this problem.

I don’t see a way to get older versions from their website, so thankfully I kept a backup.

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Sigil Portable v2.1.0 Updated

lwc on 5 Apr 2024
  • 344MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 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

FileOptimizer v16.60 Updated

Special on 2 Apr 2024
  • 194MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

FileOptimizer is a broad format file compression tool used to reduce file size without changing the quality, known as "lossless." This is done via wide variety of optimization and recompression tools and techniques. Original files are sent to the recycle bin for restoration in the event the uncompressed version is preferred. A list of the 400+ supported formats include audio/video (MP3, OGG, M4A), image (GIF, JPEG, PNG), office formats (DOCX, XLSX, ODT, PDF) and system files (DLL, EXE).

Supports drag-and-drop of files into the window or onto the program icon. Note that by default the program removes metadata for many file types. This information reduces overall file size and protects privacy but is important to some users (e.g. photographers) and file search tools.

A 64-bit version is available within the folder, the author reports the program is functional in WINE, and can be used on the command line. Many images here on TPFC including our logo have been compressed using FileOptimizer.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU AGPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting 7z.exe package and launch. When prompted, select a folder of your choice. Launch FileOptimizer32.exe or FileOptimizer64.exe (for 64-bit OS).

At startup, the program will optionally show ads to support program development. These can be disabled at any time.

Optionally, to save space:
  • 32-bit systems: delete FileOptimizer64.exe and the \Plugins64 folder
  • 64-bit systems: delete FileOptimizer32.exe and the \Plugins32 folder
  • Delete unnecessary language files
Similar/alternative apps: ArcThemALL!, PngOptimizer, RIOT
What's new?
    - Updated SQLite to 3.45.2 x86 and x64 Visual C++ 2022 custom builds.
    - Updated Leanify to 0.4.3.280.
    - Updated pingo to 1.19.3 x64 version.
    - Updated ECT x64 binaries to 0.9.5.
    - Updated gifsicle to 1.95.
    - Updated Ghostscript to 10.03.0.
    - Updated ImageMagick to 7.1.1.29 with HDRI support.
    - Updated ffmpeg to 6.1.1 x64.
    - Updated FLAC to 1.4.3.
    - Updated cpdf to 2.7.0.
    - Updated to Minify 2.20.19 x64.
    - Updated to OptiVorbis 0.2.0 x64.
    - Updated to mutool 1.23.0.
    - HTML Tidy for Windows 5.9.14
    - Updated UPX to 4.2.3.
    - Some minor optimizations and code cleanup.
    - Updated to NSIS 3.10.
    - Updated to C++ Builder 12.1 Santorini.
Latest comments
mcodex on 2018-12-24 11:44

That's not portable. I can only get a setup file installing in C: drive.

kilouiski on 2019-09-20 12:09

I just tried to reduce the size of a video and it has left me exactly the same and with either option: fast and the best.
Any explanation?.
Best regards.

webfork on 2019-10-06 22:40

@kilouiski: FileOptimizer exists because so few programs take the time and energy to fully compress your files with available tools. It sounds like the program used to generate your video was an exception.

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AnyBurn v6.1 Updated

Andrew Lee on 31 Mar 2024
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

AnyBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / Blu-ray disc burning software with most common features. Includes the ability to burn files/image to disc, create an image from disc, drive info, disc copy, image file conversion (e.g. ISO -> BIN/CUE) and erase rewritable. Can also burn audio files (MP3, FLAC, APE, M4A, WAV, WMA etc.) to audio CD.

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 "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Choose either AnyBurn(32-bit) or AnyBurn(64-bit) folder, depending on your OS
  3. Optionally:
    1. Delete License.txt and unnecessary language files
    2. To prevent updates, create a file named anyburn.ini with the following contents:
      [Settings]
      CheckUpgrade=-2147483648
  4. Launch AnyBurn.exe
What's new? See: https://anyburn.com/tutorials/history.htm
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2023-06-16 15:40

Now at version 5.6

AndTheWolf on 2023-09-20 15:38

Now at version 5.8

juverax on 2024-01-21 12:37

AnyBurn Tutorials: https://anyburn.com/tutorials/

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CHK v5.25 Updated

gbrao on 31 Mar 2024
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 31 Mar 2024
  • 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 v5.25 changes at https://encode.su/threads/1707-CHK-Hash-Tool?p=82432&viewfull=1#post82432.
Latest comments
gbrao on 2023-07-17 05:25

HashMyFiles by nirsoft offers both those options BTW. My most frequent use for hashing programs is finding duplicates. Si I'm using HashMyFiles. It also has a add to context menu option.

gbrao on 2023-08-24 23:41

No change-log yet for v5.00

gbrao on 2023-09-05 23:24

If anyone needs a 32-bit version of CHK : https://compressme.net/chk360_win32.zip

Thanks to a forum member at encode.

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Pocket Radio Player 240324 (Fréquence 3) Updated

Grisu on 29 Mar 2024
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by lautrepay

Pocket Radio Player is a lightweight, skinnable and customizable internet radio client. The program supports Shoutcast and IceCast with station editor, updater and recent songs and stations listing.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / 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 prp.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: streamWriter, RadioSure, Screamer Radio
What's new? See:
http://pocketradio.awardspace.info/prp_changelog.txt
Latest comments
Grisu on 2018-02-06 14:15

@Judy: PRP was so happy to see you back, that the new test version of today is called "For Judy". :)

Could you please visit the forum thread here and check, if this one works for you too?

kanu on 2021-08-05 14:53

Updating the program seems to ignore and overwrite _every_ previous setting with defaults. Overwriting prp.dat and prp.ini with older ones with correct settings does nothing after starting the program again. Going from 190601 to 210522 (or 1.0.2.0 to 1.0.2.5). Should upgrade progressively with intermediate versions?
So weird, anyone has this problem?

Grisu on 2021-11-23 11:20

Updated PRP to build #211122.

@kanu: You've got Mail. :)

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ScreenToGif v2.41 Updated

Andrew Lee on 29 Mar 2024
  • 20MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by Wolfghost

ScreenToGif is a feature-rich recording program for screen, webcam and whiteboard. The program is customizable, includes hotkeys and recordings can be edited and saved to animated GIF, APNG or video formats. You can control frame-rate, snap the recorder to a window, add text/objects, and denote mouse-clicks and key-presses. The editor can also modify existing GIFs and includes resize, crop, flip/rotate, captions, progress bars, borders, watermarks, transitions and more.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET 6.0 Runtime (if installing the Light version)
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: MS-PL
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty file in the same folder and rename it to Settings.xaml
  3. Open Settings.xaml in a text editor and enter the following:

    <ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:stgde="clr-namespace:ScreenToGif.Domain.Enums;assembly=ScreenToGif.Domain" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:s="clr-namespace:System;assembly=System.Private.CoreLib">
    <s:String x:Key="TemporaryFolder">.</s:String>
    </ResourceDictionary>

  4. Save Settings.xaml and launch ScreenToGif.exe
Similar/alternative apps: GifCam, Instagiffer
What's new? See: https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases
Latest comments
__philippe on 2017-08-15 19:05

ScreenToGif would be even better, if it was not for its unwieldy Net Framework 4.6.1 addiction
(2.5 GB of available hard disk space required).

For me, I'll stick with leaner, self-contained GifCam instead, thank you.

https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2541

webfork on 2017-09-08 03:15

The editor for this program just gets better and better. I've really enjoyed seeing it's progress over time.

portablefree on 2022-07-06 16:54

Some interesting news:
- Updated to 2.37 2022, May, 1st
- Repackaged since 2.36 (see https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases)
"New installer and portable versions with the full package (no .NET 6 download required) are available alongside with the lighter versions, which still require the installation of .NET 6 desktop runtime."

So, now we can have either:
- a self contained "ScreenToGif.2.37.Portable.x64.zip" at 67.7 MB
- or a minimal "ScreenToGif.2.37.Light.Portable.x64.zip" at 6.96 MB... but we need .NET 6 installed on the PC :)

I will try it now, for sure :)

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Blender v4.1 Updated

lwc on 29 Mar 2024
  • 230MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by Danilo

Blender is a powerful, integrated 3D creation software suite with character/solids modeling, animation, rendering, rigging, shading, motion tracking and post-processing tools. It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Its features can be extended with a variety of plug-ins, scripts, templates and more.

Cross platform (Mac, Linux). The program has been used for a wide variety of functions, including VFX, video edition, modeling etc.

Alternatively:


Note: Last version for 32-bit systems is 2.80.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. In the 2.8x sub-directory, create a new folder and name it config
  3. In this config folder, create an empty text file and name it startup.blend
  4. Launch blender.exe
See this post for more information.
What's new? See https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes
Latest comments
webfork on 2012-04-28 23:06

Added a note about films because I watched that Sintel short film created with Blender, which was in some areas even better than the work Pixar and Dreamworks are putting out commercially.

Checker on 2012-10-03 18:17

Watch Blender's fourth Open Movie "Tears of Steel" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MlUcmOul8

Checker on 2015-09-18 18:21

If you want to try: v2.76 rc-1 ( http://www.blender.org/ )

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TraceRouteOK v3.35 Updated

Andrew Lee on 29 Mar 2024
  • 90KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by Checker

TraceRouteOK tracks the path of data over the web, internet and local network. The program is optimized for a fast list of data tracked and quick query of the data route. The program is useful for various network tests including network latency, detailing network hardware, seeing how many devices are between you and the Internet 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:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty file TraceRouteOK.ini within this folder
  3. Launch TraceRouteOK.exe or TraceRouteOK_x64.exe (for 64-bit OS)
Similar/alternative apps: CountryTraceRoute
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/TraceRouteOK/History

HWiNFO v8.00 Updated

gbrao on 27 Mar 2024
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Mar 2024
  • 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: Freeware
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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Shutter Encoder v18.0 New

Llewelyn on 17 Apr 2024
  • 259MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by webfork

Shutter Encoder is a portable, cross-platform software for converting videos, audio files and images. It's particularly useful for video editors as it offers a wide range 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

Category:
Runs on: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

WinBin2Iso v6.26 Updated

Andrew Lee on 26 Mar 2024
  • 176KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Mar 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

WifiInfoView v2.93 Updated

Andrew Lee on 24 Mar 2024
  • 404KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Mar 2024
  • 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.

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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 to detect 802.11be access points.
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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KVIrc Portable v5.2.2 Updated

Andrew Lee on 24 Mar 2024

KVIrc (K Visual IRC) is a customizable Internet Relay Chat client allowing multiple server connections, notify and ignore lists, mIRC font codes, themes, and more. The program supports standard + extended direct connect connections (with resume), IPv6, SOCKv4, SOCKSv5, and HTTP proxies. It also comes with a sophisticated scripting language that allows you to implement automated reactions to network events.

The program is cross-platform with clients available for Mac, BSD and Linux. KVIrc Portable is a portable wrapper for KVIrc. Alternatively, you can make standard KVIrc portable by following these instructions.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the portable installer and install to a folder of your choice. Launch KVIrcPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AdiIRC, Pidgin
What's new? See: https://www.kvirc.net/?id=news&dir=latest
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Stable Release is GOOO on 2008-04-30 18:43

There is a new stable release, ver 3.4

Carbonize on 2008-06-13 03:02

In latest version the folder is called $[31] and not $_OUTDIR other than that the instructions are the same.

century on 2012-04-09 11:07

i've tried many portable irc clients, this one is far the best
a great one!

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LibreOffice Portable v24.2.1 Updated

Andrew Lee on 24 Mar 2024
  • 776MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by JohnTHaller

LibreOffice is a complete productivity suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, database, drawing tool and more. Includes strong compatibility for 100s of file formats including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio etc.). The program is similar to OpenOffice, a program that it was derived from, but has added many new features and improvements.

LibreOffice Portable is a special build developed in conjunction with the publisher. On systems without Java installed, some functions such as document creation wizards and the Base database application etc. can be enabled by adding jPortable, though this is optional and can be skipped if those functions are not needed. Alternatively, X-LibreOffice (64-bit version) is also available.

Other available portable versions:

  • Still - more tested and stable but with fewer features/capabilities
  • Legacy - for WinXP/Vista users (unsupported)

The program is cross platform with versions available for Mac, Linux/BSD (comes default with most distros) and supports a variety of extensions.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices
License: GPL/LGPL
How to extract: Download the portable installer and install to a folder of your choice. Launch LibreOfficePortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: OpenOffice, FreeOffice
What's new? See: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
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CornHolio the Gringo on 2018-09-01 13:58

LibreOffice 5.4.7 is last ever version for WinXP

CornHolio the Gringo on 2020-08-28 22:29

LibreOffice 6.4.7 is last ever version for 6 series?
I guess soo

NunoEFSilva on 2021-05-01 12:41

The most capable Portable Freeware Office.
Pity it takes sooo long to load in old machines ... oh, well ... that's the price.
With very capable Word processor, spreadsheet (Calc), presentations (Impress), expression builder (Math, physics, chemistry, etc.), Drawing (vector) editor and dataBase, one only misses specialized apps like diagram (like Dia) and raster image editors (The GIMP, MyPaint, LazPaint) to build an office to rival (and maybe even best) M$ Office.

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Discord Portable v1.0.9035 Updated

lwc on 23 Mar 2024
  • 281MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by Userfriendly

Discord is an easy-to-use, video and voice-over-IP program focused on gamers. The program functions with groups, includes high quality audio and maintains low CPU usage. The program also supports text chat, direct messaging, hotkeys, channels, permissions and embedded file exchange. The program integrates privacy settings, themes, streaming mode, notifications and more.

Discord Portable is a portable wrapper for the Discord instant messaging and VoIP program. The program is cross-platform with clients available for Web, Android, iOS, Mac and Linux. Alternatively, there is a bit outdated (from 2022) another wrapper developed by demon.devin.

Although most functions are free, some channel creations include premium features and games can be purchased via an integrated store.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source (wrapper: MIT, Discord: freeware)
How to extract: Download the self-extracting "setup" EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch discord-portable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Teamspeak, sPortable, qTox
What's new?
  • Discord 1.0.9035
  • Portapps 3.10.0

Qmmp v1.6.6 Updated

Andrew Lee on 22 Mar 2024
  • 41MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

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

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

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

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

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

Optionally, you may delete unnecessary language files from translations sub-folder.
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1, AIMP, foobar2000, Spider Player Pro, Xion
What's new?
  • added TagLib 2.0 support;
  • fixed settings form in the simple user interface;
  • improved lyrics plugin:
  • fixed issue with URL formatting;
  • updated lyrics providers;
  • using UTF-8 for all lyrics providers;
  • updated Spanish translation.
Latest comments
shnbwmn on 2016-07-24 13:02

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

Realist on 2016-10-06 16:25

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

MIKLO on 2017-01-15 17:15

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

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OpenCloseDriveEject v3.24 Updated

Andrew Lee on 22 Mar 2024
  • 598KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by webfork

OpenCloseDriveEject lets you easily explore and eject storage devices by their drive letters, presenting everything under one roof in a simple user interface. This includes USB, CD, DVD, Blue-Ray drives, external HDD and SSD, SD cards, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package.
  2. Extract to a folder of your choice.
  3. As officially documented, create a blank file called OpenCloseDriveEject.ini in the same folder.
  4. Launch OpenCloseDriveEject.exe (32-bit version) or OpenCloseDriveEject_x64.exe (64-bit) version.
What's new? See: https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/OpenCloseDriveEject/History
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2022-12-22 15:43

Now at version 3.11

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OBS Studio v30.1.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 22 Mar 2024
  • 357MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Mar 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:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch obs32.exe --portable or obs64.exe --portable (for 64-bit OS).
Similar/alternative apps: ShareX, Easy Screencast Recorder
What's new? See: https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-30-1-release-notes-copy
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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Clibor v2.3.3E Updated

Ennovy on 21 Mar 2024
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by MakoSoft

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

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

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Clibor.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CLCL, ArsClip, Ditto
What's new? See: https://chigusa-web.com/en/clibor/history/
Latest comments
gbrao on 2022-09-29 06:19

Changelog since 2.2.1E :

ver 2.2.4E
Supports Spanish.

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

ver 2.2.2
Minor corrections.

ver 2.2.1E
Change the default font.

walnut on 2023-02-25 08:54

Clibor 2.3.0E released

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

hamasaki on 2023-03-21 20:57

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

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