I'm after suggestions for portable Win apps I can put on a pen-drive. So far I've got PStart Portable Menu Firefox 2 - a browser IE7 - because I can. Filezilla FTP Open Office FastStone image viewer SIW Windows System Info ClamWin AV 7-Zip file unpacker Any more recommendations? I'd like some trouble-shooting stuff.
Format? Slightly more serious, I have GIMP from Portable Apps as I generally find random edits to images and stuff for no reason.
Portable Thunderbird... Great to check my thousands of mailing lists... Or go wild and create a custom Linux Live distro for a USB drive... That eliminates the biggest virus of them all, Windows J/K
I have most of the above and a registry backup and restorer, I forget the site I got it from. Also portable gaim, torpark, vlc portable, winscp, putty, fox it reader.
You might consider using this site: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ as a checklist for things to get to help with troubleshooting. It's intended as a package for CD's but it has a list of all the stuff on the disc versions and links to the sites of the software so you could easily go down the list, see what's usefull, and nab it.
The portable IE7 linked wouldn't install and totally borked my real IE7, so beware. Half the links to 'portable IE7' seem to be seedy sites and no info AFAICS. I've added the Foxit reader, Notepad++, Adaware, Irfanview and a couple more. A collection of 143 apps here for instant 1Gb-full but most are dross IMO. It also set my AV off - "Hacktool.PassReminder is a program that attempts to discover the system password" - hopefully to only tell me. The free software list here is good in that any writes by a program to the host system registry, etc, are noted.
