Pendriveapps

Providing categorized reviews of free portable applications, USB games, software, utilities, open source tools, and stand alone executables that can be stored and run entirely from an external USB device such as a flash drive.

USB WebServer - A Free Portable Web Server

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USB WebServer is portable website or http server package that includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin. Like XAMPP Portable, and Server2Go portable web server for Windows, it is dock able to the system tray and can optionally be run or installed as a system service.

RandomNames - Random Baby Name Tool

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Random Names is a Free portable tool that can be used to randomly select a set number of baby names. It contains a database of over 7800 total names. 4900 daughter names and 2900 son names. So if your indecisive on a name for your baby, this tool may be just what you need. Random Names requires roughly 188KB for completely portable installation.

PStart - Portable Start Menu

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PStart is a lightweight, free portable start menu application that allows users to easily manage and launch programs from a USB flash drive, SD card, external hard drive, or even from a local hard disk. This tool is especially useful for tech enthusiasts and IT professionals who frequently use portable software and need a simple launcher to organize their tools for quick access on the go.

USB Disk Ejector - Easily Remove USB Devices

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USB Disk Ejector is small and effective tool that allows a user to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It has the ability to eject any USB device for safe disconnection from the system. USB Disk Ejector can be run from it's simple yet intuitive GUI or via a command line. USB device disconnection in Windows XP or Vista is fast with nearly no wait time. This application requires only 500KB of free disk space for installation.

FollowMeIP - Display External IP Address

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FollowMeIP is a FREE Portable IP tool that can be used to quickly display your external IP address for reference. It works even if your computer system is behind a firewall or router and can be docked in the taskbar for quick retrieval. Very useful for monitoring your broadcasted IP address for game servers and other services. This application requires only 152KB of free space for completely portable installation.

AIDA32 - Portable System Information Tool

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AIDA32 is a capable and compact PC system Information tool. The free and portable utility provides in depth details about your computer's hardware and software. Whether you're an IT pro, technician, or just a curious user, it helps you analyze your system's components, detect potential hardware issues, and generate reports for documentation or troubleshooting.

Angry IP Scanner

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Angry IP Scanner is an open source, free, and fully portable network IP address scanner and open port scanning utility designed to be extremely fast and simple to use. This popular networking tool is widely used by network administrators, technicians, and security professionals to quickly identify live hosts, resolve hostnames, and detect open ports on a network.

GreatNews RSS Feed Reader

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GreatNews is a portable RSS feed reader. It can be used to quickly access and read your favorite RSS web feeds. This RSS feed reader supports custom labels, multiple viewing styles, email and blog integration and personalized keyword alerts or news watches that allow you to easily find interesting articles and have them available from a specific category.

WinAudit - System Hardware Information Tool

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WinAudit is a FREE portable hardware and software information tool. Similar to SIW and Belarc Advisor, it enables a user to perform a detailed audit of the hardware and software and its related configuration on your computer. The software can report all installed software, programs, startup programs, license information, hardware peripherals, processor model, memory usage, network settings and much more.

Jarte - Portable Word Processor

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Jarte is a FREE Portable Word Processor or text editor. Based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine that built into Windows, it enables a user to open rich text or plain text documents including .doc documents created with Microsoft Word. Some key features include spell checking, formatting tools, multi level undo, clip functions, customizable look and feel and multi document support.

Omziff - Portable Encryption Tool

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Omziff is a Free Portable File Encryption Tool that enables you to encrypt and decrypt text-based files using a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms. This lightweight utility also features password generation, file splitting, and secure file deletion, making it a versatile tool for privacy-conscious users. No installation is required, simply run it from your USB flash drive.

1by1 - Portable Audio Player

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1by1 is a tiny, powerful and fast portable audio player that provides a simple and smart environment with which to manage and play tracks from your music collection. It is super simple, it eliminates the need for a database or playlist to play your music.

mp3DirectCut - Portable Audio Editor

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mp3DirectCut is a portable mp3 audio editor and recorder. It allows a user to directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. Saving encoding time while preserving the original audio quality.

Xion - Portable Audio Player

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Xion Audio Player much like Winamp, is a skinnable high fidelity audio player (Free Music Player). Some key features include streaming MP3/OGG internet radio, gapless audio playback, presets for a 10 band equalizer, customizable hotkeys, dock able system tray support and more. Xion is easy to skin using a powerful but simple skinning system.

PhotoRec | Data Recovery

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PhotRec is a free portable data recovery utility. It can be used to recover files including video, pictures or photos (hence the name), documents and archived files from hard disks, removable storage devices and even CDs. the software can recognize the header formats of supported file types and works even if the filesystem on the drive is severely damaged or has been reformatted.

Mini Relay - Portable SMTP Server

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Mini Relay Server is a free portable SMTP server that runs locally on your computer and acts as your own personal mail relay. Once launched, it listens on localhost and allows you to send outgoing email directly to recipient mail servers without relying on your Internet Service Provider SMTP server.

Free FLV Player - Portable Flash Player

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Free FLV Player is a stand alone Portable Flash Video Player that allows users to play Adobe Flash Video (FLV) files directly from a Windows PC without requiring the Adobe Flash plugin. This lightweight viewer can open and play back .flv video files stored locally or streamed from a direct video URL. It is a simple and convenient option for users who still work with archived FLV videos and need a portable tool to view them.

Deepburner Portable Disc Burner

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DeepBurner Portable is a compact yet feature-rich tool for creating, copying, and managing CDs, DVDs, and ISO files. This Windows-based application is ideal for users looking to perform disc authoring tasks without installing bulky software. Whether you're archiving files, producing audio CDs, designing disc labels, or burning ISO images, DeepBurner makes it simple through its intuitive interface and portable nature.

Tiny Spell - Portable Spell Checker

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Tiny Spell is a free, lightweight, and portable spell checker for Windows that works system-wide across virtually any application. It can monitor your typing in real time, detect misspelled words on the fly, and notify you instantly. In addition to live spell checking, Tiny Spell can also check the spelling of copied clipboard text, making it a convenient utility for everyday writing tasks.

PC Chrono - Portable Alarm Clock

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PC Chrono is an all in one advanced portable alarm clock, stopwatch, timer, and Wake Me Up alarm clock for Windows. This lightweight utility is perfect for users looking for a customizable USB alarm clock or portable stopwatch they can carry on a flash drive.

Portable Qemu Manager

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QEMU Manager is a lightweight, portable graphical front end for the QEMU emulator that allows users to create, configure, and run virtual machines without relying on complex command line options. Designed for simplicity and portability, this utility makes working with virtualized operating systems more accessible for developers, IT professionals, and advanced users.

Because it can run directly from a USB flash drive, QEMU Manager is especially useful for creating and managing portable virtual machines that can be carried between systems.

DOSBox - Portable DOS Emulator

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DOSBox is a portable DOS emulator or Portable DOSBox that can be used to run many old DOS games or applications that cannot be run on a modern Windows Operating System. It is great to use for those old DOS software applications or games you may have sitting around collecting dust.

Jnes - Portable NES Emulator

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Jnes is an old school Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator that can be run from a portable device such as a USB flash drive. This lightweight NES emulation software not only provides accurate gameplay but also includes an advanced database of Pro Action Replay and Game Genie cheat codes to enhance your gaming experience. Best of all, it supports Kaillera netplay so you can play with or against your friends across the network in real time.

FastStone Photo Resizer

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FastStone Photo Resizer is a portable image editing tool that can be used to easily convert and resize images. In addition it can also be used to rename, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images all via the easy to use GUI applet or simple drag and drop operation. Edit single images or bulk edit in batch mode many images (resize multiple images) at once.

Regshot: Portable Registry Monitoring Tool

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Regshot is a tiny open source portable registry monitoring tool. This diff comparison tool allows a user to take a snapshot of the system registry and compare any registry modifications made after doing system changes or installing new software. The detailed report contains a list of all registry modifications or changes between the two snapshots and can be exported in either text or HTML format.

Power Defragmenter - Portable Defragmenter

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Power Defragmenter is a lightweight portable defragmentation utility that works as a graphical front end for Contig by Sysinternals. While Contig itself is a powerful command line defragmentation tool, Power Defragmenter makes it far more accessible by providing a simple and easy to use GUI interface.

PageDefrag - Portable Defrag Tool

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PageDefrag is a free, portable defragmenter designed to handle files that typical defragmenting tools can't manage. These include files such as registry hives, paging files, event logs, and hibernation files. It is particularly useful for defragmenting files that are open for exclusive access by the operating system or applications.

WinContig - Portable Defrag Tool

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WinContig is a simple free defrag tool that can be used to quickly defragment files without defragmenting the entire disk. This tool can even defrag ISO files. The creator designed it to have the ability to defragment folders or even single files without having to defrag a whole drive or partition.

The PC Decrapifier - Remove Bloatware

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The PC Decrapifier; is an application to uninstall or remove unnecessary software (bloatware) that is included on and ships with OEM Computers. Use it to decrapify and speed up a PC by removing installed trialware and bloatware from computer manufacturers such as Dell, HP, IBM, Gateway, etc.

SQLiteSpy | Portable Database Manager

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SQLiteSpy is a portable database manager for SQLite. It operates via an intuitive and clean Graphical User Interface GUI. It can be used to read SQLite3 files and execute Structured Query Language SQL against them. This embedded graphical database management tool simplifies the process of exploring, viewing, and manipulating your SQLite3 databases.

Frets on Fire - Portable Guitar Hero Like Game

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Frets on Fire is a Guitar Hero like game for PC that can be used to test your musical skills and fast finger playing agility. The focus of this open source portable game is to a play guitar with your keyboard as accurately as you can. It's fun and works similar to Guitar Hero, but you use your keyboard as the instrument.

Asterisk Logger - Password Recovery

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Asterisk Logger (now called BulletsPassView) is a asterisk revealer. A portable password recovery tool or password revealer that allows users to reveal or recover passwords hidden behind asterisks or bullets. With many applications, the typed password is not displayed on the screen, instead you might see a sequence of asterisk **** characters also known as bullets. This utility will reveal passwords stored behind asterisks or bullets.

0irc - Tiny Portable Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

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0irc is the smallest known (IRC) Internet Relay Chat client in the world for Windows. Not only does it have a small footprint, but also contains a small set of necessary features. Features such as chat, dcc file transfers, multiple server connections and an all channel overview. 0irc is command line based with no menu, so it is meant for those who already know their way around IRC Clients. 0irc requires only 172KB for complete installation.

DTaskManager Free Task Manager

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DTaskManager is a portable and free Task Manager created specifically to provide advanced features that the default task managing tool that ships with Microsoft Windows does not provide. Some example functions include the ability to suspend and reactivate a process much like Linux does, select multiple processes to terminate at a time, no need for confirmation windows.

HiJackFree Malware Scanner

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a-squared HiJackFree, now called Emergency Kit is a Malware Scanner and informative system analysis tool that advanced users and administrators can use to help detect and then remove all types of Malware; HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms. It can be used to manage autoruns, processes and associated modules, control Browser Plugins, and view all DNS entries.

Process Explorer Portable System Task Manager

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Process Explorer is a system task manager that can be used to Kill Running Tasks or Kill Running Processes that normally refuse to be killed. Process Explorer can also be used to display which running programs have a particular file or directory open. It can also display information about which handles and DLLs processes have loaded. This application requires 3.48MB of free disk space to be installed.

TeamTalk - Portable VOIP

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TeamTalk is Portable VoIP software that enables a user to easily communicate with their friends, colleagues or clients via Voice over IP communication. Much like TeamSpeak, with TeamTalk any number of people can participate in a conference type conversation, only limited by the bandwidth available to each user. The user can choose his or her own audio quality which determines the throughput required to each user. This application requires 4.7MB of disk space for installation.

Phoner - Portable VoIP

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Phoner is Free electronic portable VoIP Internet Phone software that enables a user to make and receive VoIP calls through SIP. Perform Voice over IP communication with your friends, colleagues, clients etc. You can even send emails via the built in SMTP client. With Phoner, users can send SMS to mobile phones, record messages via an onboard answering machine and much more. This VoIP application requires 5.9MB of disk space for installation.

Sylpheed - Portable Email Client

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Sylpheed is a clean, powerful and easy to use email client that can be run portably from a USB flash drive or other portable device. Built mainly for Unix like systems such as Linux, BSD and Mac OS, there is also a version for Windows users which is our main focus in this review.

Koma Mail - Portable Email Client

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Koma Mail is a free and fully portable email client designed for users who want to manage their email directly from a USB flash drive or other removable media. This lightweight portable email application supports multiple accounts and a wide range of modern mail protocols, making it a flexible solution for users on the move.