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Drive Manager v4.20

Checker on 30 Jun 2012
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Gary

Drive Manager enables drive identification/information, hiding drive letters, and substituting drive letters for folders. For drive identification, it displays vendor information so that multiple CD/DVD drives and removable drives (such as USB memory drives) can be differentiated by their vendor and product ID.

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Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DriveMan.exe.
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si on 2009-02-10 12:31

Great, just the job for finding out the serial number of my USB stick - it works, clean and simple.

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UPX Tool v1.0.3 (unofficial 1.1.1)

webfork on 23 Feb 2016
  • 274KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Gary

UPX is a tool that can reduce the size of system files (EXE and DLL) significantly. No additional software is required after compression and some programs will even run faster due to fewer read operations.

UPX Tool is a GUI wrapper for UPX, able to both compress and decompress.

There is an unofficial update created by Lupo PenSuite (UPX Tool+ 1.1.1) that can be download here. The main advantage of this update is functionality with UPX 3.0 (improved compression via LZMA).

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Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The version of UPX included in bin\upx.exe is not the latest version, so you may wish to replace it with the latest version from the UPX website
  3. Launch UPXTool.exe

    Note: I have included a direct download of UPX Tool packaged with the latest version of UPX. Just click on the "download here" link above.
Similar/alternative apps: PortableApps AppCompactor
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Lupo73 on 2010-02-11 11:32

The link to UPX Tool+ is fixed..

carbonize on 2010-02-11 15:27

Just remember that programs compressed using UPX will get reported as a virus by some anti virus software.

Have to love false positives and lazy programmers.

Irgen on 2010-11-20 02:41

ClamWin report "Trojan.Spy-75883 FOUND";Avira report:"TR/PSW.Agent.nup";Please check; and scan with online malware scanner almost report virus

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Vibe Streamer v3.0.2

lwc on 17 Apr 2021
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Nov 2009
  • Suggested by Gary

Vibe Streamer is an MP3 streaming server that allows you to listen to your music anywhere in the world using a standard web browser. The server supports users/groups and different access rights, access restriction based on client IP address, sharing of any number of files and folders, etc.

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Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete $PLUGINSDIR and move the contents of $_OUTDIR up one level to where the folders db and sites are located
  3. Delete $_OUTDIR
  4. Launch vibestreamer.exe
What's new?
  • Added support for displaying cover art found in the ID3 metadata.
  • Fixed last.fm plugin encoding problem.
  • Added button to the web client for toggling the explorer.
  • Added setting to the web client for player buffer time.
  • Upgraded sqlite and taglib to latest versions.
  • Hot-fixed the server GUI to work slightly better with higher DPI setting.
  • Settings in the web client are now listed alphabetically.
  • UPnP is now working on Windows 7.
  • The metadata field "Track" is now available in the playlist.
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MarkyMark on 2015-04-19 19:24

The instructions no longer seem valid (there is no $_OUTDIR directory for example) and the download link is is now http://www.vibestreamer.com/downloads/

Though the version number seems to match. Strange.

Midas on 2015-04-19 23:50

Thanks, download link corrected. :)

smaragdus on 2015-04-21 00:28

It's a pity Vibe Streamer has been discontinued. The developer open-sourced it- https://github.com/versionstudio/vibestreamer , but its very unlikely that someone will take over the project. For me Vibe Streamer has two major flaws- it doesn't support Unicode and it can stream only lossy MP3s.

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Drive Manager v3.16 Private

Checker on 8 May 2013
  • 875KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Gary

Drive Manager is a tool to inspect all your storage devices from the USB stick. It can mount folders into a virtual drive, hide them from Windows Explorer, verify their integrity with CHKDSK, show the S.M.A.R.T. attributes, etc. You can also use it to perform various operations, including lock/unlock, subst, defrag etc.

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Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DriveMan.exe.
Latest comments
ildar on 2008-10-21 01:23

look here simple script and describtion of persistent subst:
http://code.google.com/p/psubst/

Emka on 2011-12-27 16:31

v4.11 (?) is available, dont know if still portable

rogerthedodger on 2013-02-04 01:50

this has been replaced by version 4.20, which is also separately listed in this category, suggest remove the double posting?

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