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Explorer++ v1.4.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 26 Aug 2025
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Explorer++ is a multi-tab Windows Explorer replacement, featuring image preview, keyboard shortcuts, customizable user interface and advanced file operations (merging, splitting) etc.

Alternatively, Explorer++ Portable adjusts paths and automatically switches between 32 and 64 bit.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty file called config.xml in the same folder
  3. Launch Explorer++.exe
Similar/alternative apps: CubicExplorer
What's new? See: https://github.com/derceg/explorerplusplus/releases
Latest comments
juverax on 2020-09-10 16:43

Current version: 1.4.0.1669 (github)

hamasaki on 2020-09-10 22:46

@juverax 1.4 is a beta version.

antonio on 2025-08-25 12:57

Explorer++ version 1.4.0.2293

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HWMonitor v1.59 Updated

gbrao on 26 Aug 2025
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by JohnW

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors including:

  • CPU temperature, voltage, power consumption and utilization
  • Mainboard voltages, temperatures, fans speed
  • GPU voltage, temperature, utilization
  • HDD temperature

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HWMonitor_x32.exe or HWMonitor_x64.exe.
What's new?

    AMD Ryzen Z2 and Z2 Extreme (Strix Point).
    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 (Shimada Peak).
    NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (GB206), RTX 5050 (GB207).
Latest comments
Craunch on 2012-08-14 12:22

Just checked. The .zip files currently available for download from the CPUID website are not empty now.

softv on 2016-12-27 12:30

I use this regularly. Quite useful.

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WizTree v4.27 Updated

Andrew Lee on 26 Aug 2025
  • 17MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

WizTree is a very fast disk space analyzer and search tool, scanning a single folder or your entire hard drive quickly and showing those files and folders using the most disk space. The program uses the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) feature in Windows to rapidly view files.

Note that this high-speed mode is limited to local, NTFS-formatted drives. The program must do a (much slower) scan of FAT-formatted or network drives for analysis.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Free for personal use/Donationware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WizTree.exe or WizTree64.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: SpaceSniffer, Xinorbis
What's new? Changelog at: https://wiztreefree.com/whats-new.
Latest comments
emmanuel d on 2023-03-21 12:21

Just downloaded the latest portable version, and it asks for admin permission. That is a no no for me.
Looking at the manifest it says: AsInvoker, so i'm not sure why it would ask.

olliebean on 2023-08-26 11:46

I don't know if this is the case in Windows 11, but in Windows 10 the new "Windows 11 style" UI seems noticeably laggier.

Special on 2023-08-26 14:44

Noticed the same thing here, I reverted back personally, and frankly this "change" is enough to keep me from updating to future versions. The dev is very good about these things though, so maybe he'll revert these changes back if he knew there were issues, he's somewhat active (I think) on these here forums.

If it ain't broke...

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Shutter Encoder v19.4 Updated

Andrew Lee on 26 Aug 2025
  • 259MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by webfork

Shutter Encoder converts videos, audio files, and images. It's particularly targeted to video editors with a host of features, including:

  • Converting between a long list of video and audio formats
  • Cutting, trimming, or extracting specific portions of videos or audio files
  • Adjusting video/audio quality and loudness through encoding settings
  • Cropping, adding logos or watermarks, subtitles, file renamer, ftp server, and much more
Cross-platform with clients available for Linux and Mac.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Java Runtime (included)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Create a blank file called settings.xml in the same folder. Launch Shutter Encoder.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Handbrake
What's new? See: https://www.shutterencoder.com/changelog.txt

RedNotebook v2.40 Updated

Ennovy on 26 Aug 2025
  • 277MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by Hydaral

RedNotebook is a modern journal that includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and a "cloud" box containing frequently used words and tags. The program also includes spell check, formatting, insert images, files and links, automatic backup, templates, export to multiple formats. You can also format, tag and search your entries. Your data is stored in plain text files - no database needed.

Cross-platform (Mac/Linux/Win) and available in more than 30 languages. Alternatively, RedNotebook Portable is stealth, smaller, re-opens your last journal and has faster startup times. The outdated X-RedNotebook is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Creates:
%userprofile%\webkit\icondatabase\WebpageIcons.db
%userprofile%\.recently-used.xbel
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the contents of {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Open \files\default.cfg with a text editor and change "portable=0" to "portable=1"
  4. Launch rednotebook.exe

Problems? This process requires an up-to-date component (Innounp 0.36 or above) for Universal Extractor. If you have difficulty extracting the files, follow the steps below and retry:

  1. Download the latest version of Innounp
  2. Extract the RAR package to the \bin folder of Universal Extractor, overwriting the existing innounp.exe
What's new? See: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Latest comments
Checker on 2012-11-06 17:51

Uups, sorry.
Changed back to v1.5.0

smaragdus on 2017-06-11 06:08

I cannot find RedNotebook version 2.0 for Windows (as of 2017-06-11):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rednotebook/files/
it seems that currently it is available for Linux only.
The latest version available for Windows is 1.15.

ashghost on 2017-09-09 01:36

@smaragdus: Version 2.2 was recently released for Windows according to changelog here: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/blob/master/CHANGELOG

The project seems to have moved to GitHub. Downloads (Windows .exe and source archives) are here: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/releases. The link to Windows versions on the website now links to there.

I have not tested it for portability.

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PDF-XChange Editor v10.7.1.389 Updated

Ennovy on 26 Aug 2025
  • 150MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by Midas

PDF-XChange Editor is a fast, feature-rich PDF viewer and editor with a tabbed interface. The program includes edition of text-based PDFs, OCR of images to fully text-searchable, full document spellchecking, rotate/crop, comments/annotations, QR codes and more. You can apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects and add/edit hyperlinks.

The program supports import and export to text or image (BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc.).

Note: The free PDF-XChange Editor lacks some features present in the registered version (payware). Some "Pro" features can be used, but will add a watermark upon saving.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PDFXEdit.exe.

Optionally:
  • Disable most available "Pro" features via the File menu, select Preferences and choose Registration. Check the box "Hide all licensed features from toolbars and menus".
  • Additional language packs are available from the OCR language page. Extract these files to a temporary folder, launch the setup process and, when prompted, select the application folder (the same folder location as the PDFXEdit.exe).
Similar/alternative apps: Foxit Reader, PDF XChange Viewer
Xelitan PDF Reader (8MB)
What's new? See: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/history
Latest comments
portablesw1123 on 2024-11-13 05:36

The download links should be changed. It seems that pdf-xchange.com doesn't offer portable version downloads now. They are available on https://pdf-xchange.eu/DL/pdf-xchange-editor.htm

Andrew Lee on 2024-11-16 00:42

@portablesw1123: Seems like they still do, under the dropdown at the download page?

Midas on 2025-08-12 17:55

v10.6.1.397 released.

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Unicodia v2.12.7 Updated

Ennovy on 26 Aug 2025
  • 142MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by Llewelyn

Unicodia is a simple Unicode encyclopedia and replacement for Character Map.

  • In Windows 10/11 — all characters of Unicode 15 are supported.
  • In Windows 7 — all characters of Base Multilingual Plane, plus Phoenician, Aramaic and Brahmi.
  • Shows if the character is supported in your system, and if so — which font.
  • Copy character codes in HTML, UTF-8 and UTF-16.
  • Simple search.
  • Little emoji reference.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL 3.0
How to extract:
  1. Download the 7zip package and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Open the Unicodia.xml file and replace the string portable="0" with portable="1".
  3. Launch Unicodia.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: BabelMap Portable
What's new? See: https://github.com/Mercury13/unicodia/releases

LazPaint v7.3 Updated

Andrew Lee on 26 Aug 2025
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 May 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

LazPaint is a full-featured image and photo editor with support for layers, drawing tools, filter effects, rendering textures and more. The program can do standard operations like resize, flip/rotate, and crop, as well as advanced operations like zoom without pixelation ("smart zoom") and complex color controls. Supports variety of image formats, including SVG, RAW images, PDN (paint.net) and WebP.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.

Alternatively, LazPaint Portable adjusts paths and includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Optionally, Python 3 for scripts
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the "no_install" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete lazpaint_simplified.ini, readme.txt, unnecessary language files, and optionally, if you don't have Python, scripts directory
  3. In this folder, create a new text file, name it lazpaint.ini and paste the following:

    [General]
    ConfigFile=lazpaint.cfg


  4. Launch lazpaint.exe
Similar/alternative apps: PhotoDemon, paint.net
What's new? See: https://lazpaint.github.io/last/
Latest comments
Andrew Lee on 2025-08-25 01:36

@antonio: Thanks! Database entry updated.

antonio on 2025-08-25 08:24

May I add that it is working on WINE too ?

Andrew Lee on 2025-08-26 23:08

@antonio: Updated entry. Thanks!

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SepPDF v3.93 Updated

webfork on 25 Aug 2025
  • 365KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by I am Baas

SepPDF is a tiny PDF file splitter with drag-and-drop support. Each resulting page can also be further separated into 2-8 smaller pages.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SepPDF.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PDFTK Builder, UnityPDF
What's new?
  • Fixed some bugs.
Latest comments
xor on 2016-09-29 08:10

yep @Midas, I didn't know it was around, I upvoted it too

MIKLO on 2016-12-22 15:57

Well this has been here a very long time, this program has worked fine for my uses.I was looking for an older version from the website I found in Japanese, the problem was many of the Japanese words are spelled wrong which changes the meaning. :D
MIKLO

__philippe on 2017-09-23 10:43

Useful small footprint PDF splitting tool.

Only would wish for slightly more specific changelogs, beside the usual, non-descript
"fixed some bugs"...;-)

see also:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=87982#p87982

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DiskCountersView v1.31 Updated

Andrew Lee on 23 Aug 2025
  • 71KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Aug 2025
  • Suggested by guinness

DiskCountersView displays information about the drives on your system based on Window's system counters of each disk drive. Includes the total number of read/write operations and the total number of read/write bytes. Additionally, general drive information is also displayed like disk name, partition number, partition location, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskCountersView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Always On Top' option.
  • Added 'Black Background' option (Under the View menu). When it's turned on, the main table is displayed in black background and white text, instead of default system colors.