Making Skype Portable: Skype remains one of the most well-known and widely used VOIP (Voice Over IP) telephony clients. With Skype, users can make voice and video calls, send messages, and share files—all over the Internet. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to run Skype directly from a USB flash drive, so you can carry it with you and use it wherever you go.
Sophos Anti-Rootkit Portable Scanner for Windows is a lightweight rootkit removal tool that can help uncover hidden malware on your PC. Designed to run directly from a USB drive, this utility is ideal for detecting and eliminating stealthy threats that traditional antivirus software might miss. Rootkits are often used by cybercriminals to maintain unauthorized access to a system while avoiding detection. Sophos Anti-Rootkit provides an efficient, portable, and free solution for cleaning up infected machines.
CurrPorts is a portable tool that can display a list of all open TCP/IP and UDP ports on a computer, allowing the user to monitor any remote activity that might be occurring. The tool offers information about the process that opened the port, the process name, path, when the process was created, and the user that created it. Then the user can choose to kill any processes that has opened a port, closing unwanted TCP connections.
Reach-a-Mail is another portable email client that enables users to bring their POP mail accounts with them wherever they go on a portable USB device or flash drive. Like most email software, It features an address book to store your contacts and supports SSL and TLS. It also includes a built option to import existing mail, settings and contacts from Outlook Express and supports eight different languages.
IZArc2Go is a portable archiving tool that can be used to create or open many different types of compressed files including 7-ZIP, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, DEB, GZ, HA, JAR, LHA, LZH, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TGZ, TZ, ZIP and ZOO. With IZArc2Go, you can create self extracting and password protected archives and also repair broken archives.
Portable Opera @USB is a simple, yet powerful portable web browser based on Opera that you can take with you on a USB flash drive or portable hard drive. Opera combines the best of both worlds, merging key aspects of FireFox and Internet Explorer. It is user-friendly and includes many features like pop-up blocking, an integrated email program, RSS news feeds, and IRC chat. Additionally, Opera allows users to extend its functionality through widgets, making it a highly customizable browsing solution.
XAMPP portable web server. XAMPP is in our opinion the best portable USB webserver available today for web developers serving websites as localhost. It is distributed as an all in one package that includes Apache, MySQL (MariaDB), PHP and Perl. This very popular & easy to use Apache webserver distribution has been around for more than a decade and has quite a large following in the community.
UltraExplorer was designed to be the ultimate file manager and can be used to replace Windows Explorer. It sports many additional features such as a customizable user interface, favorites window, filter window, history window and even comes with the option to run the command line window from the current directory. The best part is, you can do all of your file navigation from your USB device.
Innounp is a command line setup extractor or unpacker. It allows a user to extract and unpack a program without installing the program on the Windows PC. It can be used specifically to extract application files from executable .exe files originally created using the Inno Setup Installer. This is a great way to attempt to make a portable application from Inno Setup created executable installer.
Use LC ISO Creator to create an ISO from a CD or DVD. This portable free ISO maker software allows a user to make an ISO image directly from any disk CD or DVD that is installed in a computer's CD/DVD-ROM drive.
EasyCleaner is a tool that can be used to remove and delete old Windows temp, backup files and registry entries that are no longer being used by your computer. It can also be used to clear internet history, remove invalid shortcuts, add or remove software or manage startup programs. It is easy to navigate and use via a nice simple graphical interface and can be run portably from a USB flash device.
Uniform Server is a complete Windows Apache MySQL PHP (WAMP) portable server package that allows users to run a production or live Web Server and host websites directly from a portable device. Web developers can also use Uniform Server to test applications made with Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Perl without needing to use a dedicated server or web host.
Restoration is a tiny yet simple portable utility that allows users to restore or recover deleted files that have been removed from Windows or deleted from the recycle bin. The free file recovery utility can also be used to recover lost pictures and files from portable media such as USB flash drives, hard drives and compact flash cards.
BurnCDCC is a CD DVD ISO to CD Recorder or CD Burner. This tool allows users to easily create a CD or DVD from an ISO file (burn ISO to CD). By storing this utility on your portable device such as a USB flash drive, you are able to bring it with you. Run the software from USB on any computer that has a CD/DVD burner installed.
USB Encryption with TrueCrypt – Portable Data Protection: Need a reliable way to encrypt your sensitive data on USB drives or external storage? This open source disk encryption software that allows you to securely encrypt files and folders on USB flash drives, portable storage devices, and hard disk partitions. Designed for on the go security, TrueCrypt supports traveler mode, meaning it can be launched directly from your USB drive without installation on the host system.
PSPad is a simple text and code editor that can be run portably. It's a great tool to add to your collection if you spend any time editing or writing code. PSPad can be used to edit or create many types of code, catch and parse compiler output, author webpages, compare code versions, and more. It even allows a user to browse and edit files directly from an ftp server without having to download the file. PSPad also includes a spell checker and dictionary downloads based on language.
Freac, formerly BonkEnc is a free audio converter. A cd ripping software or portable application that can rip cd's and encode and convert audio files to different formats. This enables the user to play the converted audio in various hardware and software players. It can create AAC, MP3, MP4, M4A, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Bonk files.
DrWEB CureIt is free antivirus software. This stand alone utility can be used to quickly scan drives for viruses, and if necessary cure an infected computer. It can detect and remove most of the common threats such as worms, E-mail viruses, file viruses, stealth viruses, polymorphic viruses, boiless viruses, keyloggers, dialers, adware, hacktools, backdoors, trojans and more.
RQ Money is a lightweight and free portable personal finance software designed for managing household finances directly from a USB device. This versatile tool provides an efficient way to track income, expenses, and transactions while ensuring your data remains secure and portable. It utilizes an SQLite database for fast data processing and offers a wide range of features, including reporting, data export, and advanced search capabilities. Additionally, it allows you to protect your financial data with a password for added security.
DriverGrabber is a tiny portable utility that allows you to easily create a backup of all your important third party Windows system drivers. This driver backup tool can be useful for anyone that might need to reformat or reinstall Windows. That is, those of us who do not want to have to hunt down all of our hardware specific drivers - post install.
Icon Sushi is another great Free portable icon creation tool that can be used to convert images to icons and vice versa. It also supports Windows XP 32bit icons, Windows Vista large icons, multiple icons and more. Icon Sushi can open ICO, BMP, PNG, EXE, PSD, ICL and DLL files and can convert files into ICO, ICL, PNG or BMP.
Inkscape Portable is a free scalable vector graphics editor that sports drawing tool features typically found in applications like Adobe Illustrator, Xara X, CorelDraw and Freehand. Some key SVG editing features include, shapes, paths, text, clones, blending, transforms, gradients, patterns and grouping. It can be stored and run directly from a portable USB device and should be a part of every graphical editors collection.
HoverSnap is a nice little stand alone Screen Snapshot tool that allows users to take pictures of their desktop and manipulate the output format of the Screen shot. It supports captured full screen, active window or custom area Snapshots. It can be stored and run directly from a removable device such as a USB drive.
Foxit is a portable PDF Reader that allows users to view and print PDF files. It can easily be integrated into your current web browser as well. It's also fast... at the time of this writing, this software appears to load much quicker than Adobe Reader with virtually no delay in opening files.
CatchColor is a compact and FREE portable color picker tool for Windows that lets you instantly reveal the hexidecimal color value or color code of any pixel on your screen. Ideal for web designers, graphic artists, and UI developers, it helps you identify, copy, and use precise color codes in your projects without installing any bulky software.
LockNote is a simple to use text tool that allows users to password protect their written text or notepad information with password encryption using AES 256bit encryption technology. A user can create new files from scratch or drag and drop existing text files into the LockNote window to encrypt them as well. LockNote is a must have utility for those that like to store important or confidential information in text files.
7-Zip Portable is a free and versatile zip and unzip tool, offering users a straightforward way to compress and extract files without the need for installation. As an open-source file archiver, 7-Zip supports a wide array of archive formats, making it a favorite among tech enthusiasts and professionals alike. Its portable version adds convenience, allowing users to manage files directly from a USB device or other portable storage without leaving traces on the host computer.
IE PassView is a tiny, easy to use utility that enables a user to reveal any passwords that might be stored by the Internet Explorer Web Browser. This password viewer tool has the ability to reveal or view and recover saved HTTP dialog box passwords, FTP login passwords, and Auto Complete form field login passwords.
PC Wizard is a free benchmarking software and diagnostics utility that includes some great tools. It can be used to detect and analyze or test computer hardware, display complete system information and even benchmark parts of your computer system. The tool is multilingual and supports English, French, German, Serbian, Slovak, Russian and Greek languages.
Money Manager Ex is a simple, and very easy to use free personal finance software that can be run directly from a portable device. This stand alone portable application will help users get organized and keep track of where his or her money goes. The utility includes most of the basic features a user would need in personal finance software.
WhoisThisDomain is a simple stand alone tool that will allow the user to collect and display all available owner and registration information for any registered domain. It supports generic domains as well as country code domains. This utility will automatically connect to the correct WHOIS server and retrieve and display the WHOIS record of the selected domain.
IPNetInfo is a neat little free IP lookup tool that allows users to retrieve all of the available information about an IP address. Important information including the owner of the IP address, country and state, IP address range, contact information (address, phone, fax, email) and more. It's like having your own portable WHOIS lookup tool.
ReSysInfo is another great stand alone portable Windows System Information tool. ReSysInfo is very easy to navigate and use. It contains twenty five information modules and currently can detect most computer technologies. This tool gathers detailed system information regarding your motherboard, Bios, video, network, memory, processor and much more. Gathered information can be exported in plain text, HTML and XML.
KeePass Password Safe is yet another great Portable Password Manager that can be run directly from a portable USB device. This application allows you to put all of your passwords in one database, which is then locked with a single password or master key disk. So you only have to remember one password or insert the key disk to unlock or gain access to the whole database.
RoboForm2Go is an incredibly user-friendly, free password manager designed for personal use, and it works seamlessly from a portable USB device. Formerly known as Pass2Go, this version of RoboForm enables you to store all of your passwords, login credentials, and even bookmarks securely on a USB drive, making it the perfect companion for users who are constantly on the go.
McAfee Stinger is a free portable virus removal tool that can be stored and run entirely from a removable USB device. This utility is often used by technical users and computer administrators to help deal with and repair infected computer systems. AVERT Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.
Avast Virus Cleaner was a Fee virus and worm removal tool that could even be installed to and launched directly from a portable USB device. It was a nice tool to have available for those extreme situations when you encounter an already infected computer. For many common infections a virus or worm can be removed quite easily using this Portable Antivirus tool.
Portable uTorrent? uTorrent is a super tiny peer to peer BitTorrent client with a ton of amazing features. The benefit of having a stand alone version is that it can be run portably direct from a USB flash pen drive. This might come in very handy for downloading torrent files while you are on the move.
MegaIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client that can be used portably, Portable IRC. It allows a user to connect to any IRC network and chat with people around the world. The software contains the basic essentials of a standard IRC client.
Now you can create and edit icons portably while on the move. IcoFX is a simple and very easy to use Portable Icon Editor. It is a great portable solution that contains over forty effects for icon creation, extraction and editing. IcoFX was also designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.