http://www.pegtop.de/start/
PStart is a great application for creating a menu of all your portable application. It stores apllication locations as relative locations, so it won’t matter what drive your thumbdrive or cd rom is.
PStart gives you a system tray icon with a right-click menu of all your apps, as well as a window that shows icons […]
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
Process Explorer, by Sysinternals is a very powerful version of task manager. It shows you the command line used to open your running processes, which files they have open, and which processes spawned them.
Process Explorer allows you to kill process trees instead of killing one process at a time. It’s ability to kill processes seems […]
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html
Ps Tools, by sysinternals is a collection of free command line tools for windows that do such things as remotely run programs, show/kill processes, and start services. They come in very handy for remote administration/help desk.
All of them will run just fine from a CD, and by creating a gui with autohotkey, or a script […]
http://www.winvi.de/en/
WinVi is a windows version of the vi editor found on *nix machines. Vi is a very powerful editor with a steep learning curve. If you know how to use it, it’s very cool. And if you’re a good typist, you’ll appreciate that you can do everything without taking your hands off the keyboard.
WinVi is […]
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a wav editor and the only one I’ve used that is portable. I haven’t really used it, so I can’t say how useful it is or anything, but It’s on the CD I take with me to work.
I might use it at some point to record the calls I take. I got a […]
http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/
Win32pad is one of those notepad on steroids applications. It’s pretty good, and a handy thing to have for editing things. Not really essential, but nice.
Win32pad is one of those applications I keep on my work cd because it is very small and I might decide to start using it at some point, but as […]
http://www.ghostzilla.com
Ghostzilla is a neat idea. It’s the mozilla browser, hacked to look very inconspicuous. When you fire it up, it sizes itself to fit within your open applications, so that it looks like it’s a part of them. Once you move the mouse out of the ghostzilla window, it disappears (or so it’s supposed […]
http://www.memecode.com/iftp.php
iFTP is a nice little ftp program. It’s small and doesn’t need to be “installed” so it can just run from its own directory. The configuration files are in its directory too, so you can download it to a thumbdrive or your harddrive, configure it, and then burn that directory to a cd.
Personally, I like […]
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6763/html/dwhtml.html
DwHTML is a tiny html editor that I’ve been using for a long time. It’s a little more useful than notepad, but that’s about it. It dates back to a time when web pages were simpler and people were proud to have written their web sites completely with notepad.
By todays standards, it’s a crappy little […]
http://www.muukka.net/multidesktop/
This one is pretty cool, and I used to use it a lot, but haven’t run it in quite a while.
If you’ve ever run linux, you probably have seen a desktop manager with multiple virtual desktops. You can switch between these desktops and have different programs running on them. This way, your screen does not […]