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Mutt Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 146 Location: USA

There's a site dedicated to "Portable" FREE software:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php

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This site is dedicated to the collection and cataloguing of freeware that can be extracted to any directory and run independently without prior installation. They can be carried around on a memory stick / USB flash drive, or copied / migrated from PC to PC via simple network copying. Hence the term portable freeware.

- even covers software that requires an Install first, but explains what files to copy to your portable drive, then you can Uninstall the software.

and if you don't want to go through that, just download their Portable Freeware Collection (Vol 1 & 2) which already has the files you'd need.

Stray Dog Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Has anyone actually checked to see if this software is really stand alone? I want to make sure that it not only runs off a thumbdrive, but it would leave no trace of having ever been run. Even if Windows keeps a record somewhere of the program having been run, I most want to make sure that the web browsers and email clients don't leave any saved passwords on the computer.

EEps · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the forums and the pound, madcow3417! Grab a spot by the beer bowl but leave them nuts alone! Big Smile

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: Standalone Software..

madcow3417 wrote:
Has anyone actually checked to see if this software is really stand alone?

Welcome to The Pound madcow3417 Mr. Green

The ones I use are all fully self-sustaining executables.
Some of them write additional files to the thumbdrive.

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:36 am Post subject:

WELCOME!

As far as browsers, and so forth leaving passwords, or history behind... You can set up the app not to save those things, or configure them to save it all on the thumb drive, instead of on the HDD...

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:41 am Post subject:

for that matter.... And completely off topic...

Why is it a thumb drive? If it is only 64MB is it a "finger drive"? How about a simple (like MAYBE 1MB) "pinky" drive that carrys all of your passwords, and the info for a roaming profile. To log into the OS... Plug it in. It reads the info, runs any scripts, and applies any security settings included on the drive, asks for a PIN or p/w to verify that the owner of the drive is the one actually using it... and viola!

Oh, wait.... that's awfully close to smart cards, and other hardware lock technologies...

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject:

MP3 Direct Cut and the 1 by 1 Directory Player are both stand alone exe's.

http://www.mpesch3.de/

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:29 am Post subject:

Should this be made stikky along with favourite software list?

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject:

If someone cleans it up and makes a 'list' with links, I'll sticky it

Stray Dog Joined: 20 Sep 2001 Posts: 47 Location: USA

Check out Eraser. http://www.heidi.ie/products.php

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Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows and DOS), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:31 am Post subject:

finally made the master list to be stikky PM me when you post here and ill update the master list or dont post here at all

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:21 am Post subject:

Xchat - Multiplatform IRC Client

install as normal, placing install directory on thumb drive.
in install directory create new directory titled 'config' or some such
create shortcut to program, and add -d '.\config' to the end of the shortcut

will now run as standalone, loading all info from the config directory

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

fbzip

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Freebyte Zip is a reliable, powerful and freeware zip/unzip program with full Windows user-interface. You can zip and unzip files, create zip archives, password protect files, view sort and encrypt zip file contents, and also make self.extracting archives. This program is the direct successor to the reliable HJ-Zip program. Freebyte ZIP is suitable for Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP. The program is only 300 Kb in size, and does not require any installation.
Licence: freeware for commercial and non-commercial use.

Ii"ve been using this one for years with no problems.
there are also many other freeware programs on www.freebyte.com and links to many other free resources.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:00 pm Post subject:

Not sure if anyone listed this one. Miranda is a standalone multi protocol instant messenger client.

http://miranda-im.org/

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

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Forgot about this one:

Restoration

Graphical user interface for recovering deleted, and emptied from trash items.

Searches for all available files that can be restored so you can look for what you want and restore it, or a bunch of files. I like it becasue I can leave it on someone elses machine and walk them through it over the phone. Nice and simple.

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

This is also a good STANDALONE software utility for those thumb drives

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