Geek lists: Free Portable Applications

Since the moment i got my 1 GB Flash Memory stick, i began to gather all the portable applications i can find. Usually these applications are not marketed as portable, but you can easily figure it out by renaming the installation directory and running the application, if it run properly then it’s a portable application.

Here’s a list of free portable applications that every IT guy should have on his flash memory at all time.

PortableApps.com’s has a very nice list of portable application, here’s my favorite:

• 7-Zip - Compression/decompression Software
• FileZilla - FTP Client
• Mozilla Firefox - Web Browser
• Miranda IM - IM application
• VLC Media Player - Media player capable of playing almost any file
• Sumatra PDF - PDF reader
• AbiWord - Rich Text editor
• ClamWin - AntiVirus application, constantly updated

DesktopApps’s Simple and portable applications:

• menuApp - a menu based application launcher.
• audioApp - for all your one-click muting needs.
• monitorApp - a small system resource monitor.
• imageApp - a digital image viewer.

Windows Sysinternals’s (formerly Sysinternals) portable system monitoring software:

• Process Monitor - real-time monitoring of file system, Registry and process/thread activity

• RegMon - Sysinternals.com - Monitors all modifications on the registry
• DiskMon - Monitors all modifications and traffic on the hard drives
• FileMon - Monitors all modifications and traffic on files
• TcpView - Monitors all traffic incoming and outcoming from the system

All of the following application are 100% portable:

• GreatNews - Curiostudio.com - RSS Aggregator
• Notepad++ - SourceForge - Advanced Text Editor
• eMule - eMule-project.net - P2P client
• Free Download Manager - Freedownloadmanager.org - Download manager with support to Bittorent protocol and Preview options
  
• µtorrent - Utorrent.com - Torrent client
• Angry IP scanner - Angryziber.com - IP scanner capable of scanning big ranges of IPs and checking for specific open ports.
• SIW System Auditor - Gtopala.com - Gathers ALL available information about the system and dumps into a file.
• CPU-Z - Cpuid.com - Gathers information on some of the main devices of your system and dumps it into a file.
• LCleaner - 585Soft.com - Cleans the system from unwanted files
• XP Security Console - DougKnox.com - This application offers hidden options in XP and can help you override modification implemented by Trojans and other malwares
• TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Foundation- On the Fly-Encryption
  
• XAMPP Lite - Apachefriends.com - a portable Apache/PHP/MySQL server
• The File Splitter - Dekabyte.com - This is a program that will split any file into pieces of any size and later combine the pieces to form the original file
• Qumana - Qumana.com - A blogging tool, witch enables you to blog directly from your desktop

i will keep updating this list, every time i find a new portable application