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.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 […]
Cygwin is a unix/linux like environment for windows. You can go to the cygwin site and use their installer to get a custom environment, or you can just do what I did and get user.exe from this site about unix win32 utilities.Install the program and then edit the batch file or cmd file so it […]
www.7-zip.org
7-zip is in my humble opinion, the best free compression utility for windows. It won’t require registration like winzip, and its own file compression format is more compressed than zip files.
7-zip will run from it’s own directory, so it needs no “installation”. Just download it and burn the directory to a cd. There is a […]
www.autohotkey.com
Autohotkey is the single greatest application I’ve ever found to take to work. It lets me automate all sorts of repetitive things and even create my own little programs and tools for use at work. I don’t ever like to work without it.
I discovered autohotkey when I had an extremely boring job checking remedy tickets […]