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I have been a fan of a lot of portable and/or tiny apps on a day to day basis. Some of them are

Executor - Program launcher

Ditto - Clipboard manager

Everything - File search utility

AntRenamer - Batch file renaming utility

XMPlay - Music player

What are the other portable apps that you use regularly

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If you have not looked at PortableApps, check that out too.

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Each of the SysInternals tools is a small independent application that is fantastic.

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files.

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SpaceMonger 1.4 - a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system.

There are other applications that do this, but this one does it in simple colours, small-footprint and is still free.

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windirstat is an alternative tiny app that is also excellent – Ram Sep 24 '09 at 4:52
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Here are some of the apps I use every day (some of the other apps I use have already been mentioned):

  • MonitorES - turns the screen off and mutes the computer when it's locked
  • Taskbar Shuffle - allows you to rearrange the items in the taskbar
  • TrayIt! - minimizes apps straight to the System Tray
  • Launchy - program launcher
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providing links would be great :) – TuxGeek Sep 24 '09 at 6:07
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It would, but I was in a hurry. Sorry about that! – alex Sep 24 '09 at 7:04
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TinyResMeter - a small tool that displays useful information about system resources in real time, but it also gives much more detail when you right-click on the displayed fields

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JkDefrag 3.36 - a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.

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7-zip command line version (the zip pack at that link).

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+1. This blows everything else out of the water. – paxdiablo Sep 24 '09 at 7:13
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VLC for watching anything anywhere. Open Office or even better (due to smaller size) Abi Word for when a user does not admin rights, has Office 2003 without the 2007 compatibility pack, and you need to access a Word 2007 file.

Also the brilliant Everything as mentioned. And I didn't know that Ditto was a portable. Thanks!

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Portable Firefox - I don't have admin rights on my system and I'm stuck on IE6 - so portable Firefox is a must for me.

Another must is WinDirStat - use the KDE version on my laptop, but this is for my office system

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I think you may find that any corporation that's limiting your admin rights probably also has a "you're fired" policy with regard to bringing in outside software. Tread carefully. – paxdiablo Sep 24 '09 at 7:15
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