General Flash Drive Applications

Predator is a freeware USB PC locking tool for Windows that turns a USB flash drive into a secure key. It locks your computer automatically when you walk away and take the USB stick with you (use USB to lock Computer), protecting your data from unauthorized access. When you return, simply plug the USB drive back in and enter your password to regain access.

Portable Webcam is Free, Simple, Fast, and Ready to Go! Need quick access to your web camera attached to a computer without installing bulky software? Portable Web camera Viewer might just be the perfect tool for you!

OpenOffice Portable: A Comprehensive Free Office Suite for All Your Productivity Needs. This open source office suite offers users a full featured, free alternative to traditional office software. Created originally by OpenOffice.org and later packaged for portability by John Haller of PortableApps, it allows users to carry their office software on USB drives or other portable storage devices.

XMIND Portable Mind Map is popular open-source mind mapping software. This easy-to-use and intuitive application is commonly used for brainstorming sessions, personal mind mapping, or capturing knowledge and ideas for projects and project management. The information within a chart or map can be shared online, shared internally, or kept as a personal mind map.

Free USB Microscope Software: ImageJ is an open source, and highly versatile image processing and analysis software. While it's not specifically designed for USB microscopes, it can be used for this purpose by capturing images from your microscope and analyzing them with its powerful tools.

How Do You Encrypt Notes? The Letter Encrypter is a free portable tool designed to send secret, encrypted text messages. It allows you to encrypt your notes or letters easily by entering a password, composing a message, and pressing the "Encrypt" button. Once encrypted, your secret message will appear as jumbled text until decrypted with the correct password.

Blender Portable is an Open Source 3D Creation Software created by Blender that can be stored and then run directly from a USB device. Portable Blender is an advanced graphical creation tool that enables users to render, animate, shade, composite, model, and create all kinds of amazing and cool 3D graphics and animation effects.

What Changed: Portable Utility for Tracking System Changes. This lightweight, portable utility designed to detect changes and track modified files and registry entries during software installation. It’s an essential tool for monitoring the impact of new software on your system, particularly for power users and developers who need insight into file and registry modifications.

An alphanumeric or name to phone number converter is an excellent tool to help your business stand out. By using a name based phone number, you make it easier for customers to remember your contact information, allowing them to recall and dial your number effortlessly. With this tool, you can convert a name into a unique phone number, making your contact details memorable and accessible.

Free Stopwatch is an entirely free and portable stop watch software. It can be used to measure (in 0.01 second increments) time intervals in hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Simply press start to begin counting time and stop to end counting time. A lap button is also available for those that need to record lap time during a session. Recorded time can be saved to a file as well.

Balabolka is a Portable and Free Text To Speech (TTS) Software. It can be used to read text on screen out loud using the voices of Microsoft's built in Speech API (SAPI). Balabolka can read the text from clipboard content, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files. On screen text can be read and then saved as WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA audio files.

TinyTask is one of the most popular macro recorder for games currently available on the free market. It is easy to use and has a wide range of features that make it ideal for gamers who want to take their gaming experience to the next level. Use it to easily record mouse movements, clicks, and keyboard keystrokes and then replay them, allowing you to automate complex tasks in portable games with ease.

Windows 7 in a Box is a Portable Application that attempts to puts an end to the frustration and seemingly endless searching for Windows 7 system settings and applications. This Portable Desktop Companion condenses hundreds of tools, functions, settings, folders and applications a user might find in the Windows operating system and organizes them in one easy to navigate tool.

SE Desktop Constructor is a Free desktop wallpaper, clock and, calendar tool created by SE-Soft that can be stored and run from a USB Flash Drive UFD. SE-Desktop can be used to setup and automatically change your desktop background wallpaper, add desktop clock or calendar using presets and more.

Rapid Typing is free typing speed test software. This keyboard training tool can be used to test and sharpen your typing skills or simply help you learn to type. Helping you improve both your typing speed and accuracy.

NexusFont is a Free font manager for Windows. This Font Manager provides a way to view, compare, and completely manage your fonts. It can be used to compare many font styles in one window, rename fonts, locate duplicate fonts, install or uninstall fonts from windows, print fonts, export font images and much more. The tool is multilingual an supports many common languages.

Free Mind is a Free Open Source Mind Mapping tool. This high productivity brainstorming app allows users to create visual diagrams to organize, brainstorm and structure new ideas. The software was designed to be intuitive and easy to use, making it a popular tool for students, educators, and professionals alike.

Stellarium is free astronomy and planetarium software that allows you to gaze at a realistic 3D view of the sky, planets, and stars by select location. There is a portable wrapper for the tool that was created by John Haller. This portable wrapper enables you to take this portable observatory or planetarium with you on removable media such as a USB flash drive. Enabling you to view the universe while on the go.

ExeInfo is freeware executable information tool. It allows you to check and view detailed information about binary .exe, .dll, ocx, and driver files. Information such as author, file size, file creation/modification date, executable format, header information, and more is displayed.

The Furniture Volume Calculator can be used to calculate the amount of space (volume) in cubic meters or cubic feet that furniture consumes. The volumetric calculation tool becomes handy when planning a move or need to store your household items. It can help you quickly and easily figure out how large of a container you will need to transport or store all of your household belongings.

SysExporter is a compact tool that enables you to export data such as files inside a folder or compressed archive, Windows event logs, Outlook email and contact information, registry values and more from just about every application that might be running on your PC. The data can be exported to a text, HTML or XML file. This tiny application requires roughly 64KB for stand alone portable installation.

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.

NM Collector JE Lite is a Portable Freeware Collection Software — a collector’s dream for organizing and managing collections on the go. This versatile database application is designed for collectors of coins, stamps, firearms, knives, swords, and just about anything else you can think of.

Virtual CD ROM is a Virtual CDRom Driver utility created by Microsoft. The utility enables users to mount an ISO and use an Emulated CD Rom drive to run them. Works well when your computer doesn't have a CD Rom Drive but you do have an ISO of the disk to use. A handy Portable Application to have with you in situations where you encounter computers that do not have a CD drive.

ClipCube is a Free and Portable Clipboard Recorder or Clipboard Capturing Utility that can be stored and run entirely from a USB Drive. Once launched it resides in the system tray, keeping track of all text that has been copied to the clipboard. ClipCube boasts a very simple interface.

Country Codes is a tool that can be used to find country code for over 250 countries. Available Country Code Data includes Continental Location, Top Level Domain Code, ISO number, ISO Alpha 2 and 3 Codes, IOC Code, FIPS 10-4 Code, Currency Code, Dialing Code, NDD Code, IDDD Code, Language Abbreviation, and Flag for each Country.

Windows in a Box is neat little portable program created by bigdaddy design, that condenses hundreds of typical Windows functions, settings and applications a Windows operating system user might use, run and adjust on a daily basis. This Portable Desktop Companion attempts to puts an end to the frustration and seemingly endless searching for system settings and applications.

Birthdays is a Birthday Tracker Application created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to help keep track of birthdays via a calendar. You simply right click within a given month, select Add Birthday and enter the Name, Month/Day/Year of the person who's birthday you would like to keep track of. The check boxes might be used to signify that you have acknowledged a birthday (sent a gift, card, or simply said happy birthday to the recipient).

Free Time Tracker is a Portable Time Tracking Tool created by Kviptech. Record or track how much time is spent at the computer on related activities. Applications are grouped into categories and the percentage of time spent on each is charted for reference. Could be used as a time card to monitor productivity.

Dexpot is a Free for personal use tool that offers the ability to manage multiple Windows Virtual Desktops. Dexpot houses many features including ability to add up to 20 custom desktops, use different settings and wallpapers for each desktop, ability to rotate desktops in a cube like manner via the dexcube windows cube desktop plugin, and more.

OSForensics is a free forensic software. It contains an entire forensic toolkit with the ability to create cases, discover and read files, recover deleted files, find good and bad files using known hashes, search within files and much more. The utility includes several useful digital forensics tools that enable users to easily extract forensic data from computers for study and review of evidence.

Celestia Portable is a stand alone version of the popular Celestia interactive space simulator program. Unlike most planetarium software or astronomy software, this utility enables you to explore the solar system and universe in 3d (three dimensions). Addons are available from the Motherlode allowing you to customize to suite your needs.

ZoomIt is a Free Portable Application that can be used as a replacement zoom tool for Windows. This screen  zooming tool functions much like like the Mac OS X zoom tool but was designed for Windows Operating Systems.

Auto Timesheet is free Time Tracking Software also known as Time Logging Software that can be used to track and log time spent working on sites, files or applications. Auto Timesheet works by  monitoring the applications running on a computer and gathers information about the amount of time a user spends on each application, file or website. The tool and it's time logging information is great for tracking time spent working on a project or task and could even be used as a time card for project time management.

AM-Notebookis a portable application that allows you to create notes, encrypted notes and spreadsheets, access your address book and more all using one single tool. It also utilizes a built in alarm clock that can be used to notify you of important events. It can be installed to a USB device such as a flash pen drive and once launched, AM Notebook can be accessed directly from the system tray (near the clock).

DJO Portable Recipes is a Free Portable Recipe Software created by the DJOPAD project. It can be used to manage all of your favorite recipes. It's Portable Recipe Database ships with over 100 recipes already included. Key features of this app include the ability to search for a particular recipe, add ingredients to a recipe, modify a recipe, add a new recipe, or delete an existing recipe, and two of my favorite features; get calorie count, and modify serving size of a recipe on the fly.

SolarInfo Solar System Information is a Free and Portable Tool created by Jan Horn. This neat tool can be used to provide planetary information regarding the planets and moons in our solar system. Information such as distance from sun, size, mass, gravity, temperature, and length of a day/year.  A real selectable 3d rotating image of each planet is also displayed.

Tiny Spell is a free, handy, tiny and Portable Spell Checker that can be used to check the spelling within any Windows application and if necessary, correct any misspellings. It can even monitor typing on the fly and notify the user when it detects a misspelled word. This convenient little spelling checker can also check the spelling of copied clipboard text for errors.

Xinorbis is a Portable hard disk analyzer created by Paul alan freshney. This Free Disk Analysis tool can be used to display detailed information about the contents of a hard disk, portable drive, network drive or directory. Disk structure, contents, and file composition are viewable and reportable. Reports can be exported in HTML, XML, ASCII and, CSV formats and compared. Although not a small utility, Xinorbis includes portable mode support and can be stored and run entirely from a USB device.

Qwix is a Xbox remote ISO file management and ISO creation tool. It enables PC users that also own an Xbox to easily upload ISO files from a PC to their Xbox. It can also be stored and run portably from a USB flash drive eliminating the need to install it onto a computer's local hard drive.

PhraseExpress is a Free Portable Autotext Software (TextReplacement Utility) that can be used to organize, store and manage frequently typed text snippets (Snippet Manager) and then replace text or auto suggest text as you type (text input suggestion). Phrase Express might be used to correct typos, spelling or grammar errors, expand abbreviations, store and retrieve web links or even as a macro tool to launch applications.

Quitter is a Portable Twitter Client that can be used as an Alternate Twitter Client. Providing an alternative method to access Twitter and do your tweets, Quitter is a quiet Twitter Client that doesn't announce itself to the entire cube farm. Quitter allows you to read - post - reply and retweet, organize and read tweets by group, Use URL shorteners like TinyUrl for tweeting, send and receive direct messages and follow or unfollow other users.

ByteWasher is a Free File Cleanup Tool. This portable utility can be used to Remove Temporary Files, Remove Recent Documents, Delete Thumbnail Cache and clean up other unnecessary clutter. ByteWasher is tiny and makes for a nice portable file cleanup utility to add to your arsenal.

iWisoft Flash SWF Downloader is a Free tool that enables you to download SWF files from a website. The SWF download tool could be used to grab embedded Flash Games, Flash Animations, Flash Movies and more. Simply paste the URL into the address bar and click Download. The SWF Downloading software will then locate and download all SWF files from that page. The tool also comes with it's own preview window, so you can test the files you have downloaded.

Aciqra is a free Portable Planetarium Software that can be used to display a virtual real time, history or future view of the day or night sky from your location. The virtual view displays the planets, stars, comets and other minor bodies along with their coordinates and phases. Usage of the software is easy and requires little to no knowledge of astronomy to use.

Clicky Gone Portable is a Free and Portable Window Hiding Tool created by Alan Howie. It can be used to instantly hide select active windows or all open windows from view. For example, Clicky Gone might be used when someone walks in on you to quickly hide running programs or open browser windows. Features include Boss Key Mode, Toggle Hide/Show All Windows, and many other customizable key combinations.

The Guide is a Free Portable Application that allows you to categorize  information in a hierarchical, tree type structure. Working much like the Help Menus or Help Guides used in common applications, the tree like organization structure could be used to create custom guides, help menus, books and more using parent level topics with child level pages. The Guide utilizes a rich text editor allowing you to modify the format and style of the text.

Yod'm 3D is a portable 3D virtual desktop manager. It does for Windows what Beryl or Compiz does for Linux. It utilizes a 3D rotating cube to allow the user to change desktops and can manage up to four desktops. Best of all, it can be brought with you to run portably from a USB device such as a flash drive or external hard disk.

Eigenmath is basically a Portable MatLab. This tool can help aid in solving algebra and calculus problems through the manipulation of mathematical expressions in symbolic form. It includes many mathematical functions, it has graphing capabilities and also supports scripting.

PureRa is an Open Source portable file cleanup tool. It can be used to remove files from your computer that many other cleaning programs overlook. The tool can help you retrieve valuable space and will attempt to repair or remove files that tend to reappear. Config.msi, Desktop.ini, Iconcache.db, .sqm-files, and Thumbs.db are just some of the files that can be cleaned or removed by PureRa.

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.

Yadabyte Subtext is an Open Source portable application that enables users to create portable text shortcuts for commonly typed words or phrases. Those words or phrases can then be automatically retrieved by simply typing the shortcut you have tied to the text.

gMote is a Free Macro tool that enables a user to control their computer using Mouse Gestures. The scribbles you create with your mouse become shortcuts to frequently performed tasks. Once a mouse gesture has been created, you can perform the specific task by scribbling the gesture with your mouse on screen. For example gMote gestures might be used to Start Programs, Visit Web Sites, Launch Media Player, Check Email, Restart your Computer... the list is endless. gMote can do anything your keyboard can.

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.

Day Text Converter is a simple Free Portable Text Conversion tool that enables you to Convert Text to all lower case or all upper case letters (Convert Upper Case to Lower Case and vice versa). Convert complete sentences or paragraphs on the fly without having to rewrite. Usage is easy. Simply paste the text into the original text box and then copy the text from the upper case or lower case output boxes.

Marxio Login Logger is a invisible Login Tracking,  Login Viewer and Login Logger application that allows you to track who was using your computer while you were away. The Login Tracker records the time a user logged into the computer and when the user logged out. The application could also be used as a sort of time card, enabling you to keep track of when you started and finished a project.

Marxio Timer is a powerful portable Macro program that can be used to launch Scheduled Tasks. Tasks such as turn off or restart computer, logout user or lock workstation, hibernate or suspend computer, display text or play sound, run or close a program or process, send or press selected key combination (Macro), click mouse at selected coordinates, take desktop screenshot and much more.

Time Recording Easy is a Free portable Time Tracking Software for Project Time Management. This handy tool helps you keeps track of the time it takes to complete projects. To use the Time Recording Software, begin by creating a project. Then choose your project from the drop down list and click start to begin tracking your time.  When you have completed your project, click stop. Pause is also available. The project time overview button lists your projects and the time it took to complete them.

Universal Viewer is an Free advanced File Viewer that enables users to view a wide range of file formats. Supported viewable file formats include: Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode of unlimited size, RTF, UTF-8, RTF and UTF-8 encoded text, BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF images, AVI MPG WMV MP3 media files, HTML XML DOC XLS files and more. Most importantly, this Universal Viewer is portable and can be stored and run entirely from a USB device.

EjectUSB is a simple free portable utility that can be used to quickly close all running programs from a USB device and then eject the drive for safe removal. The utility will automatically attempt to close all running applications on the drive it was launched from.

USB Port Blocker is a USB Port Blocking Software Tool created by Al Emran Tareq. It can be used to Disable or Block the USB Ports of a PC from being accessed by unauthorized users. USB Port Blocking can be turned On or Off via a password you set (rebooting is necessary). Useful when you do not want friends, students, employees, etc to have access to the usb ports of a given PC.

Commands In Demand is a Portable Windows Commands Shortcut Tool created by Vasilis Stamatopoulos. It can be used to quickly access commonly used essential Windows Commands and Settings via easy to use structured navigation. Quickly access over 120 different Windows Commands,  Features, and Settings that are normally buried within Windows, all from one simple tool.

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.

Read CSV files the way they were meant to be read with DiamondCS's portable and free CSV Viewer. Unlike reading CSV files with a text reader, CSV Comma Separated Values are displayed with CSView in an easy to read and understand format. Each line in a CSV file represents a row, and each column of data is separated by a comma. CSView is tiny 37KB, Freeware, Portable and easy to use.

gPodder is a Free and Portable Podcast Downloader (Aggregator) created by Thomas Perl. It can be used to keep track of and download free Podcasts from the Internet. Downloaded Podcasts are stored in the downloads folder and can be watched whenever you choose.  Options are available to add subscriptions, check for new podcast episode updates, Podcast Player, and much more.

PacBot Answers is an Artificial Intelligence Prankware Bot created by Pijush Wares. It can be used to trick people into thinking the tool knows the answers to any question it is asked.  The Answer is hidden in the petition! You then pretend to be asking PacBot a question that you already know and have given it the answer to. Essentially fooling your friends into thinking the tool knows the answer to every question it is asked.

OpenSim is a Free and Portable Virtual Reality World Server. It can be used to create Simulated Virtual Worlds similar to those in SecondLife, but self hosted. OpenSim is written in C#, ships with a pre-configured sqlite database. It is also self contained and ready to run out of the box. Client connection requires that a port is opened and that the client connect via a viewer such as Hippo Viewer.

Desktop Snow OK is a freeware portable program created by Nenad Hrg. It can be used to Add Falling Snow to a Windows desktop or background. It's kind of like a Snow Screensaver or  Snow Wallpaper. Options include the ability to select from different snowflakes, number of snowflakes, speed of falling snowflakes, transparency of the snow, and deactivation options via mouse events/keys. Once run, Desktop Snow OK is minimized to the task bar.

Last.FM Downloader is a tool created by run.to/sz that can be used to download streaming songs similar to what you're listening to on the Last.FM streaming music service. Key features of the Last.FM Downloader include; records or saves streamed songs as MP3 files in the destination you choose, ability to stop or skip downloads, and change the listening URL.

Clipboardic is a nifty little tool created by Nirsoft, that can be used to keep track of your Clipboard activity. It works by automatically recording Clipboard data and saving it to a Windows clipboard file (.clp). If you need to recover clipboard history, you simply select the clipboard file, and Clipboardic will display the items or information that was gathered.

24x24 Free Button Icons is simply a compilation of Freeware icons created by Aha-Soft that can be used for personal or commercial use (see the readme in the zip for more info). Although not a portable app, you never know when these Icons might come in handy for an application or website. This is a nice simple set of icons that you can bring with you on your USB device and use when the time arises.

Drive Manager is a free stand alone portable drive info utility. It can be used to display, identify and manage your hard drives, CD/DVD drives, removable USB flash drives, and USB hard drives. From capacity and firmware revision to serial number and product ID, Just about everything you need to know about your drives is available. Other features include the ability to unhide or hide drives, map drives, create remove or substitute drive letters and more.