As the title says... what portable applications do you think every tech enthusiast should have to hand? /Discuss
The only things I take with me to work are Portaputty, TightVNC viewer, and firefox portable. A guy's gotta be able to talk to home, after all.
And you still remember. It must have been a hard slap. I'm happy with chrome, cpu-z and speedfan. Maybe procexp but it's not really necessary, the standard task manager is pretty good. The biggie is a net connection: with one of those, you can get more or less anything onto any machine very quickly. All these tools are online and take no space, so I don't even bother keeping a 'toolkit' on a pendrive. If they don't have a net connection they're beyond help in my book
I was browsing through my private message about 6months ago and saw cpemma's message . That's why I remember
Theres a portable HDTune!? Also, couple of web browsers, VLC, Notepad++, GIMP, previously mentioned hardware progs (CPUz, GPUz etc). Anybody want to point me to a decent portable virus scanner?
There's a few listed here... http://thepcsecurity.com/ultimate-list-of-portable-antiviruses-for-your-usb/ Trend and Kaspersky are mentioned.
Out of interest...Why? Never used it myself, I prefer a Linux Live CD for emergency diagnosis/repair.
I use the Portable Apps platform, but currently installed on that drive are: 2xClient 7-Zip Portable AIDA32 Autoruns BgInfo CCLeaner ClamWinPortable CommandPromptPortable CPU-Z IfranView KeePass Portable Keyfinder Opera USB Speccy SumatraPDF WinDirStatPortable PuTTY (incindentally, there doesn't appear to be any point to the Portable Apps version of PuTTY, as it's already portable.) For recovery, I'm still a huge fan of BartPE. I only need to work on XP boxes, though, so it may be less than ideal for Vista/Win7.
