Collection Of Portable Apps

Collection Of Portable Apps

This collection was put together mostly for personal use. The main goal was to have most programs as a single
executable with a nice icon and compressed to save on precious space. Some were Thinapp'd, some were made into RarSFX,
some are stand-alone executables. I am not a huge Thinapp fan, so most of them were made that way so they would retain
registration or important personal settings info. 
Rarsfx are mostly rared installations or stand-alones with docs or the like. All SFXs auto-execute the main program
executable after decompressing to your temp folder and all files should get removed after terminating the application,
but some refuse to do so, so it's always a good idea to check your 'Local SettingsTemp directory'. Also, many of them
love to make folders under '%user%Application Data' and write to the registry. When in doubt (or when being raised
paranoid like me), use tools to watch registry and filesystem changes. There's tools for that in this compilation.
If you want to change the settings of an SFX, you can extract, run, configure and recompress. Most have the icon used
inside the archive itself. Or you can simply extract them to your machine if you plan on using them often.

Thinapp will always create a folder with the app's settings and virtual registry. This is called a sandbox. When I
feel it's important or necessary, it will be created in the same folder as the executable. If you don't care about it,
or you want to go back to the original configuration, you can delete this sandbox. You can also try to delete it if an
app loses it's registration and goes into trial mode. If it's an app whose configuration I feel don't matter, it will
be created in '%user%Application DataThinstall%appname%' and it will be emptied upon termination. However, Thinapp
just doesn't offer an option to remove the folder, so if you really don't want to leave stuff around, keep an eye on that location too

Lastly, this is still mostly in the experimental stage. Most apps were tested on a clean virtual box running Windows
XP 32-bit SP3. No .net or VB/C runtimes installed to make sure apps don't have dependencies and run on a fresh install.
But this is all mostly theoretical and not all apps have been thoroughly tested. I don't have an email that I can share
on a public site, but leave comments here and I'll try to look into it. Keep in mind that I'm still learning some
of the things that goes into doing this.

A note about Portableapps.com and Thinapp. There's a few apps here that came from PA.com. I removed the extra stuff
they add from some of the apps. No hate here, but if you add it all together, it does take some space, plus I really
don't wanna see their banner pop up every time I launch one of them, and I think credits should go to the developers,
not to whoever packed it. Some of them are a single executable, and that sorta defies the purpose of "portable". Same
goes for VMWare Thinapp: all packages made by me using it had the pop-up banner removed.

And now for the list. I'll describe the more obscure ones and add notes about how they were made or observed issues. I
won't go into much detail on the ones everybody has.