Portable Apps

[mjc]

Okay, all you USB mass storage device users...

This is for you!

You ever want to have a host of programs that you can take with you?

Well, now you can.

Some of the most common freeware/Open Source Windows programs have been specially built to be used FROM USB devices...

http://portableapps.com/

(full list)

* Audio & Video
o Portable VLC media player
* Development
o Portable NVU - Webpage editing made simple
o XAMPP - Apache, mySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin and more in an integrated package
* Games (Coming Soon)
* Internet
o FireFTP Extension (FTP client extension for Portable Firefox)
o Portable FileZilla (FTP client)
o Portable Firefox (Web browser)
o Portable Gaim (Instant messaging: AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, etc)
o Portable Miranda IM (Instant messaging: AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, etc)
o Portable NVU (Webpage editor)
o Portable Thunderbird (Email client)
o Sage Extension (RSS reader extension for Portable Firefox)
* Office
o Calendar Extension (Calendar/tasks extension for Portable Thunderbird and Portable Firefox)
o Portable AbiWord (Word processor)
o Portable OpenOffice.org (Office Suite: Word processor, spreadsheet, presentations)
o Portable Sunbird (Calendar and tasks)
* Operating Systems (Coming Soon)
* Photos & Design
o Portable GIMP (Image editor)
* Utilities
o Portable ClamWin (Antivirus)
o PStart (Application menu/launcher)

[PrntRhd]

Made this a sticky post.

[Sylvander]

Acerose Password Vault (http://www.dexadine.com/acerose.html) doesn't put any settings in the registry [at this time = June 2006, this may change in the future say the makers] and can therefore be run from any location that Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP can access.

You use this to hold information [web addresses, user name, password and more] securely encrypted and safely auto-backup protected from loss. It's a good idea to also manually backup [to a different partition or drive] the primary ".apv" archive files after making any update to the archive contents.
This because if you were to restore an image backup of the partition holding the files, the archive files would "jump back" and changes included after that partition image backup was made would be lost. You'd need to restore the manual backup to recover those, or else...
After restoring the partition image backup, immediately open the vault and restore the latest auto-backup.
If you don't do this, when you shut down the Password vault it would auto-backup the out-of-date vault information, and the latest auto-backup would be out-of-date.

You can only access the Password Vault by providing your user name and password, but that's all you need remember or record elsewhere; there's no need to memorise the other info since it's all recorded inside there and can be copied and pasted once inside.

[mjc]

Another nifty portable app:

DeepBurner Portable (http://www.deepburner.com/?r=products&pr=deepburner&prr=portableed)

DeepBurner Portable works straight from your removable media, whether it's a USB flash drive, compact flash card, or even a good old floppy.

[rio_bugarin]

cool ! Now I know why I bought a 1Gb usb drive :D

[mjc]

Another list and offers a CD's worth of apps as a single download...lots of great software in there.

http://www.theinfobox.com/index.php/Portable_USB_Apps

[normeck]

can thunderbird portable dowload email from ypops?

[mjc]

It has been awhile but here is another site with hundreds of portable apps.

The maintainer of the site lists some details about each program, whether the app is a true portable or if it writes to the registry, whether or not the app qualifies as a 'stealth' program--makes absolutely no 'tracks' in Windows, or not

http://www.portablefreeware.com

Here is a site listing a good number of useful tools...portable for the most part, it also includes instructions on how to add them to a Bart's PE disk.

http://www.dirk-loss.de/win-tools.htm

[Sylvander]

My present list...

[sassie05]

Ok this is strange to me. This thread shows up under "New Posts" I click on the Thread title and it does not show the last post by suzanlawrence. When I click on the name (suzanlawrence) under last post column it directs my to Sylvander's last post, which is the last post in the thread.:confused:

[Budfred]

That is because suzanlawrence is a SPAMmer... Look in Bit Bucket...

[sassie05]

Interesting that I've never run into this situation before.:confused:

[Budfred]

It was a matter of timing... You were looking around the time that I nuked the post and moved it to Bit Bucket... Otherwise, the only way you would have known about it is if you had subscribed to this thread and you would have been notified of a post waiting... :)

[sassie05]

Thanks Budfred. It's like the clouds have parted and a bright light has been...:)

[mjc]

Not much to report/update on this sticky...just check the sites for updates to specific apps. I was and it looks like it is time to redo my portable app tool kit...:rolleyes:

[Sylvander]

FREE Windows and Linux versions of PeaZip Portable Archiver Utility (http://www.peazip.org/).

[Sylvander]

1. FREE RootKitty.exe portable program (http://www.ezpcfix.net/download.aspx?dload/RootKitty.exe).
As explained here. (http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5868)

(a) It finds rootkits by finding files that are being hidden within the Windows environment.

(b) You hold the RootKitty.exe file anywhere that can be accessed by OS's suitable for running it.

(c) You run the prog within Windows and hit the Win-Scan button, and it scans all files [the default scan path is C:\] and lists them in C:\Win-Files.txt.

(d) You then shut down Windows, boot into some other OS environment [UBCD4Win?], run the RootKitty.exe file, click the PE-Scan button to scan the same path, and the results of that are saved to C:\PE-Files.txt.

(e) Then when the 2nd scan [as explained in (D)] is complete, you click the "Compare" button and the program displays any differences in the 2 lists of all files held on C:\ [or wherever] as recorded in the 2 txt files.

(f) Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Files being concealed within Windows: are they necessarily malicious?

[Sylvander]

1. FREE Portable TextDiff.exe program compares the text content of 2 files to display differences. (http://angusj.com/delphi/textdiff.html)

2. Having scanned with RootKitty, I had difficulty getting it to display only the differences.
So I used TextDiff to 1st successfully display both lists of files, and then the differences only.
See screenshot below showing that the only file different was a temp file listed in Windows, but gone by the time I scanned in UBCD4Win.
So no rootkits found.
.

[Paul Komski]

1. Files being concealed within Windows: are they necessarily malicious?
2. So no rootkits found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit

Not all rootkits consist simply of hidden files.
Not all rootkits are bad.
Not all hidden files are bad.

[Sylvander]

ATF-Cleaner in Budfred's signature is portable. :)