Best Portable Apps

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I've seen "must have" app lists around, so here's one for purely portable software. I prefer portable software for a number of reasons. They're easier to install, remove, and I don't have to redo settings when reformatted.

Aside from stuff like CPU-Z/HWMonitor, my stuff:

Media Player Classic Homecinema - homecinema version allows rebinding of AppKeys, so I can use my keyboard's mail key to play/pause
MP3Gain - fixes volume on MP3s
MP3Renamer - renames MP3s (after rip from CD, etc)
Process Explorer - similar to taskmgr, except a lot more detailed.
SciTE - editor, like Notepad++, except a lot lighter, I use a registry tweak to make me able to rightclick edit anything with it.
Startup Control Panel - I use it to remove Apple/Java startup junk
SumatraPDF - Very lightweight, works well, can associate PDFs with itself
FileHippo UpdateChecker - Definitely more efficient than checking manually. This checks most installed applications, and provides DL links for new versions.
uTorrent - Normally not portable, but if you create a file called settings.dat in the same directory, it becomes portable.

What do you guys use?
 
I use Firefox portable, and I like Evernote as well. I also have used ClamWin portable to scan things for viruses before putting them on my usb drive or to scan infected PCs.
 
MP3Gain does not fix volume levels, it alters the gain levels of MP3s to make them all similar.

I have a load of portable apps on a thumb drive but rarely use them. You can get a decent suite of portable apps from portableapps.com

I do have a few on my HDD that I do use though. Portable version of foobar, Thunderbird and Audacity.
 
I make my own most of the time with Thinstall, so... almost everything I use can or has been made into a portable version over time. I don't actually use 'em that much anymore as I work from home (retired from the "PC industry" and now I just work for myself when the mood strikes) so I have no need to keep things "portable" in the sense of taking stuff with me.

Portable to me means I gotta get up from my chair and walk 3 feet to the cabinet on the side of the bed to get a USB key or CD or something. :D
 
There's Iron portable, which is a fork of Google's Chrome browser. It's great -- when it doesn't crash. For audio, foobar2000 can be easily configured to be portable. The same can be said for Mp3tag. There's OperaTor, which is a Tor-ready version of Opera. Portable OpenOffice is what I use for all my doc needs. CCleaner's awesome for weekly reg cleaning. JkDefrag's for defraggin'.

Pretty much the only programs I use that aren't portable are Firefox, Adobe CS4, Pro Tools, WaveLab and EAC (which is only non-portable because of AccurateRip).
 
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