Author Topic: Your top 3 favorite portable software programs (Read 31,656 times)

Josh · « **on:** December 20, 2007, 10:30 PM »

I figured that since we have a "3 favorite programs" thread, why not a portable one? I am always interested in seeing what programs are used portably.

Mine are as follows:

Roboform Portable
OpenOffice Portable
FoxIT Reader Portable

jgpaiva · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2007, 11:44 PM »

Other than fSekrit... none

Josh · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2007, 11:56 PM »

But I am talking about real applications ;-) Not imaginary

jgpaiva · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:00 AM »

Quote from: Josh on December 20, 2007, 11:56 PM

But I am talking about real applications ;-) Not imaginary

Blasphemy!
I call f0dder to drop a giant anvil on your head!

edbro · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:09 AM »

- Directory Opus. Absolute #1. I also use it as my program launcher
- Portable Firefox
- Evernote Portable

Lashiec · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:51 AM »

Only Portable Firefox for now

Nighted · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2007, 01:37 AM »

Executor
PStart
Firefox

tinjaw · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:32 AM »

Everything
at
portableapps.com

scancode · « **Reply #8 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:38 AM »

Firefox
Visual Basic 6
Axialis IconWorkshop

PhilB66 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:43 AM »

JkDefrag
XnView
Universal Viewer

cranioscopical · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:59 AM »

Portable Firefox
RoboForm2Go
fSekrit

kimmchii · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2007, 05:51 AM »

-portable photoshop
-portable nero 7
-MPC.

tkh7819 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2007, 07:52 AM »

Firefox
Faststone Capture
Speq

Lashiec · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2007, 03:37 PM »

Visual Basic 6? Portable Photoshop? Portable Nero 7?

Although a quick search in Google questions the legality of all three

JaneDC · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2007, 04:06 PM »

Quote from: Lashiec on December 21, 2007, 03:37 PM

Visual Basic 6? Portable Photoshop? Portable Nero 7?

Although a quick search in Google questions the legality of all three

Seeing a portable version of photoshop posted had me googling as well.

Yep that'd be nice. But there's not one from adobe.

edit:

xplorer2
miranda im
autohotkey

tomos · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2007, 04:09 PM »

Quote from: JaneDC on December 21, 2007, 04:06 PM

portable version of photoshop

I seen it on offer somewhere a while back, but they said you had to have your own key..
and, no, it definitely wasnt from adobe

Armando · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 2007, 04:52 AM »

I'll have to think about that one… hummm my 3 favorite portable apps…

but I wanted to mention http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ . It's really fun to have an OS on a pendrive. The only ones I used as such in the past were puppy linux and MCNlive. they worked really well.

pendrivelinux.com offers different sections and one is about portable apps : http://pendriveapps.com/. A very good selection of portable apps, many of them run on Windows (like Winamp, Pidgin, EssentialPIM...)

e712 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 22, 2007, 05:04 AM »

putty
WinSCP
vncviewer
passpack.exe (encrypted password list utility)

Perry Mowbray · « **Reply #18 on:** December 22, 2007, 11:51 AM »

RoboForm2Go: Makes my on-line life too easy!
AutoIT: Use it for custom solutions at work
PSPad: Use it for XML, HTML, etc editing at work

...And USBStart that holds it all together

suleika · « **Reply #19 on:** December 22, 2007, 12:54 PM »

Firefox
Thunderbird
Tiddlywiki

Darwin · « **Reply #20 on:** December 22, 2007, 01:58 PM »

RoboformPass2Go
ClipMatePortable

I have many others but never use them

lrlewis · « **Reply #21 on:** December 26, 2007, 07:42 PM »

Check out
http://www.winpenpack.com/main/news.php

Yes, in Italian, but you can switch to english in the top right of the page. Prefer the interface to the portableapps one.

vegas · « **Reply #22 on:** May 22, 2009, 02:45 PM »

Definitely a thread in need of revival (can't believe this thread got so lost). OK, so three just isn't enough...

PStart (Portable Launcher)
XYPlorer (File Manager)
foobar2000 (Audio Player)
Firefox Portable 3.0.10 (Internet Browser)
File Locator Pro (Search Tool)
EmEditor (Text Editor)
IMGBurn (Media Burner)
Batchrun (.bat Compiler)
FARR (Yes, I finally installed it mouser!)

Anyone else have some new favorite portable apps 1.5 years later.....

40hz · « **Reply #23 on:** May 22, 2009, 04:10 PM »

PStart, Portable Notepad++ and all the NirSoft and Sysinternals apps on the biggest USB stick you can afford.

If you're a network or server tech, don't leave home without it.

wraith808 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 22, 2009, 04:14 PM »

geek.Menu
xyplorer
XAMPP - PmWiki
Evernote
SharpDevelop
LeaderTask

OK... so I can't count.