CloneApp, Backup and Migrate your App Settings

CloneApp [Portable | Free for Personal and Commercial Use] is a specialized backup program created to backup all your App settings from Windows' directories and the Registry, and you can select only those you really need.

In addition, CloneApp allow you to set a custom File/Folder/Registry/Command to backup App not found in the list. However, this backup program is more suitable to individual than to corporate users as it will not allow you to restore different variation of the backup since all new backup performed will replace the old one. Meaning that won’t have 2 different settings of a app backup in a single CloneApp folder. 
Therefore, if you wish to have different backup, you should have a separate CloneApp for each individual.

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5 Must-Have Useful Windows Programs

1) Listary [Free for Personal use] | 19.95 USD [Lifetime updates]

Listary is one of the must have software in my computer as it saved me lots of time when searching for files and folder. It is not as Lightweight as Everything but it is well-integrated in Windows Explorer. The free features is sufficient for most users but Pro feature might useful if you want to use custom shortcut for folder,file, project folder, command to process files and folder such as Resizing images etc.
If you are a person with lots of files, folder, apps and use command to save your time, Listary is designed for you. Note, this software does not search file contents.
For a Single License, you can use it on up to 3 devices owned by you and you do not need to deactivate manually as it will automatically deactivate and active on your last 3 devices.

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2) f.lux [Free] – Eye care by reducing bluelight

it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. Basically, it helps to reduce eyestrain and  improve your sleep. You can also disable Flux temporary when working on color-related tasks.
Note: Do not use it when performing activities like Video Editing, watching video, Presentation etc.

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3) Greenshot  [Free | Open Source | Portable]

Alternative: ShareX
Greenshot is a screenshot software that not only allow you to take screenshot but also allow you to edit it for better presentation of the screenshot. For instance, you could blur the images (Privacy Warning: It is possible to unblur images, so black out the content especially for sensitive content)
It a simple to use GreenShot but if you required tools like video recording, color tool, you can try out ShareX [OpenSource| Portable] .

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4) KeePass [Free | Open Source] [Windows. Linux, MacOS]

If you are still storing your password in a plain text, you should consider using Keepass as you can protect your username and passwords with the Master Key plus you can search for it. So no more remembering unimportant passwords. It is recommended to increase the Security of your Database before storing important passwords.
[Which can be found under File ⇨ Database Settings⇨  Security]
Alternative: LastPass [Cloud-based, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac] 

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5) PhraseExpress [Free for Personal Use ] | Starting Price From 49.95 USD

PhraseExpress [Windows|Mac|iOS|Android] is a Text Expander software for Windows which allow you to increase your productivity by minimizing repetitive task. For instance, you could use the Macro feature built-in to decrease the number of step or time in performing your Task. Some of the thing you could do is change content from uppercase to lowercase. For instead, it will perform copy the highlighted text and then change the text to lowercase on the press of F10. Another thing that are very unique for this software is the ability to exclude the same shortcut in certain application. For Instance, you could have F12 to perform Resize function in Photoshop but the same key will perform Backup in another Application. The free feature of PhraseExpress should be sufficient but for commercial use, you may prefer Phrase Express Professional and above if you wish to use feature like input form, Mouse Recorder, etc.
Here my Sample Phrase for you to play with


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Foobar2000 Audio Player and Lyrics Plugins

Foobar2000 [Freeware]

Description

• Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
• Gapless playback
• Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component
• And More

Audacity : Free Open Source Audio Editor

Description :

Audacity is a free and open source software for recording and editing audio. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Common Use

• Extract Audio From Video (Require FFmpeg Library) 

• Download and extract the zip file to App\FFMpeg 

• Edit Audio and Export as mp3 (Require LAME Library )
• LAME is a library that allows some programs to encode MP3 files. LAME is free, but in some countries you may need to pay a license fee in order to legally encode MP3 files.

FileBot, Automatic TV Shows and Movie Renamer

Description

FileBot a free open source tool for all major operating systems that can automate the task of renaming TV shows and movies for you. You can download Filebot [Here]

Runtime: Java

Features:

Subtitle Downloader [OpenSubtitles Database]

 (Free Members : 200 Subtitles per day, Vip Members: - 1000 Subtitles per day)
 [You need to register a OpenSubtitles Account)

TV Shows and Movie Renamer

The program supports three TV and two movie databases, including
TV Database: TheTVDB, AniDB [For Anime Lover], TVrage,
Movie Database : IMDB and TheMovieDB.

Advance Renaming

FileBot | Official Website | Download

This Software is often used together with

Plex Media Server

Alternative
ReNamer {Free For Personal  use with limited feature but enough for normal use]
** Note that it does not detect based on the show name, only useful when filebot does not detect the show name.

File Optimizer ,Compress your files to the smallest possible size

FileOptimizer is a Portable lossless file size optimizer , It is able to optimize many type of extensions as it actually just a combination of a bunch of open source tools that would normally do the same task , but combined .This help us to save time by using  only one software to optimize  instead of using tools one by one to optimize different files type.

To compress a file, just load it up ,right click and click optimize.
Depending on the file, you might get anywhere from 50%  to 100% of the original size

Do aware that FileOptimizer will remove additional metadata, and other unneeded information, so if you want to further modify the original files, remember to create a backup of them.  The speed of the recompression depends on the particular format of the file.

Supported File Types

AIR,APK,  APNG , APPX ,  BMP , CBZ, DOCX, DLL, EPUB, EXE, GIF, GZ, ICO, JAR, JPEG, MNG, MP3, MPP, PNG, PPTX, ODT, OGG, OGV, PDF, PUB, SCR, SWF, TIF, VSD, WEBP, XAP, XLSX, and ZIP formats among others

Why you need it ?

• Save your hard disk space
• Save Bandwidth and increase page load speed

Requirements

- Operating System: Windows 2000 +
- 32 Mb of free memory.
- 5 Mb of disk space available.

License
FileOptimizer (Open source ) is totally free, both for commercial, and private usage.

FileOptimizer Homepage

Source [ DotTech ]

Repair Corrupted File With File Repair

File Repair software is a powerful tool to repair your corrupted files. It scans the damaged file and extracts maximum data from it to a new usable file.

Using File Repair, you can repair:

• corrupted Word documents (.doc, .docx, .docm, .rtf)
• corrupted Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xla, .xlsx)
• corrupted Zip or RAR archives (.zip, .rar)
• corrupted videos (.avi, .mp4, .mov, .flv, .wmv, .asf, .mpg)
• corrupted JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG or RAW images (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .png)
• corrupted PDF documents (.pdf)
• corrupted Access databases (.mdb, .mde, .accdb, .accde)
• corrupted PowerPoint presentations (.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• corrupted music (.mp3, .wav)

Official Site
http://www.filerepair1.com

Portable Version by Portableapps
http://portableapps.com/node/28234

Please note that you can only repair file one at a time


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Mouse Without Borders By Microsoft

Mouse Without Borders is a software that allowed you to use one keyboard and mouse to control multiple computer by moving the mouse pointer from one screen to another

( Just like they are connected to each other)

Here is a small clip introducing Mouse without Borders

To get it working , you will have to install the application on every computer you want to connect .

Feature

• Copy files from one computer to another by simply dragging and dropping to another screen

• lock or log in to all PCs from one PC

• customize your Windows logo screen with the daily image from Bing or a local collection of pictures

[ Download Mouse with Borders ]

Alternative
Synergy  [ Windows , Linux , Mac ]
Input Director [ Windows ]
Share Mouse [Windows , Mac ] [Portable version Available]

Drag and Drop Resize Images with Dropresize

I bet sometimes you hate manually resize images
With Dropresize you can resize it without manually resize it :)

First ,you can set it to monitor a folder ,
Then set resize image to .......

After that select whether you want to Include SubFolder , or Backup Images before resized

Lasly Select JPEG Image quality
Recommend : 75% or 85 %

After you set up these , all you have to do is to open this software before you copy/drag/cut images to the folder being monitored , it will be resized to (Depend on what you set )

DropResize ( Download Link Below)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/567326/share/Freeware/Dropresize.zip

If you would like to resize it manually(Batch) , "Right Click context menu"
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/74953#DownloadId=297503

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URL Snooper Display Hidden Remote Url

URLSnooper is a Portable Free HTTP Sniffer which makes use of WinPcap . It can displays the traffic of a selected network adapter listing the urls, source and destination IPs and ports in a list.
So you can download the True link
For Example : Get the real url to download Google Chrome 5.0.375.55 Offline Installer

Addition Information Here

Alternative of it

Http Network Sniffer
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/http_network_sniffer.html (Free and Portable )

Add Background in Thumbdrive Folder in Windows

For Windows Xp


First Create a txt and rename it into desktop.ini
If you cannot see the extension example new.txt
Select Tools the located a folder or My Computer ,after that click Folder Options

Untick Hide extension for known file types

After you have done that you should be able to see the filenamewith.txt
rename it into desktop.ini

Open Desktop.ini with Notepad and insert the following code



[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=..\Untitled1.png ( put ..\ =root folder .\ = Current Folder)
IconArea_Text=0x000000FF

0x00000000 Black

0x00FF0000 Bright Red

You can get more code of different colors html color code at
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm 
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After you are done with it, reopen your folder then you will see your background

Example :

Please note that

If you want to customize background inside the folder of your pendrive make sure that you have changed the Folder Attribute to System
You can do this by
Start -> Run
attrib +s H:\Myfolder (just a example)

For Window 7 & Vista

First , Install Vista Folder Background by Ave
http://www.aveapps.com/folderbg.html

Create a desktop.ini file and insert the text below
 
[AveFolder]
IconArea_Image=X:\xxxx\XXX\XX\XX.jpg  
TextR=251
TextG=4
TextB=11
ShadowedText=1

(The above code is for Red Text)

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-7-folder-background-changer-released
You can use the above tool to setup the colors and Background Image in Vista & 7 easier
In order to work with Portable Device
You have to change to (In desktop.ini)
IconArea_Image=.\

(Ave Vista Folder Background must be Installed)

Remember to install Visual Studio 2005 Sp1 Runtime Files or else it wouldn't work

Tips = You can join the code together to make it work on
       WindowsXp   or    Vista/7

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=.\Picture.jpg
IconArea_Text=0x000000FF


[AveFolder]
IconArea_Image=.\Picture.jpg
TextR=251
TextG=4
TextB=11
ShadowedText=1

Edited on 09-11-2011

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Junction (Symbolic Link)

What is Junction ?
Junctions basically make files and folders accessible in another location on the hard drive. It make Windows and applications to think that the Application/Game/Files is hosted in the junction directory, while in fact it is stored somewhere else.




How do you use it on Window Vista and Windows 7

Run Cmd as Administrator

Universal Silent Switch Finder

I always hate Finding Silent Switches for silent installation [Unattended Install] when using offline computers so I went to softpedia and search for something like these

 

 Universal Silent Switch Finder FileSize (1 MB)

Universal silent Switch Finder is a software which help you find Silent Switches in program .

(Please be noted that this software doesn't always found the switches)

Below is some simple batch script I used for batch silent installation

Foxit Reader (PDF Reader)

Why suggested Foxit Reader not Adobe Reader ?
Foxit uses less Ram , smaller , faster

Foxit Win for PDF Reading (not creating or editing)
Beside this Foxit Reader Is Free and It doesnt bug you or run background processes like Adobe.
It’s only 14.07MB

Greenshot a light-weight screenshot software

Greenshot (Free and Open source)

Description :

Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:

Create complete or partial screenshots quickly.
Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.

Send the screenshot to a file, the clipboard, a printer or as e-mail attachment.






You can get it from Here
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/files/Greenshot
Filesize: Within 1Mb
Works fine on Windows x86 & x64



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Google Chrome Standalone[Offline] Installer

You can download standalone version of Google Chrome through the link below
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1&hl=en

For Unattended Install
/silent /install

For Example: chromeStandaloneSetup.exe /silent /install

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Best software to use when formatting a computer

Before Format (Must have access to Window)
Double Driver [Portable] (Used to backup and Restore Driver)

After Format
Avast (Antivirus) - Free for personal and Non-Commercial
Comodo Internet Security (For it's Firewall) 
Comodo Time Machine (System Restore ) - Non-commercial and personal use
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (For Video Codec) - Freeware

Ketarin | Keep your installer up to date |Silent Installer

Ketarin
Description: Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates setup packages. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date, but rather to maintain a compilation of all important setup packages which can then be burned to disc or put on a USB stick.


To make it fully portable go to
%appdata%/Ketarin Close Ketarin and copy the contents in that folder into the folder containing Ketarin.exe.  (That's the database of it)

Beside that you could use it to create a batch Silent installer/Unattended Installer







You may need this to find silent Switch
Universal Silent Switch


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eXpresso |Associate File Extensions With Portable Application

eXpresso

Description :  eXpresso allows the user to associate files to applications on a portable device such as a USB flash drive or any Storage in disk mode, with a standard double click. No modifications will be made to the host system, all monitoring of file launches, all settings and all dependencies are contained in the eXpresso directory.

Double click if file extension not yet added

Download Page : gluxon.com

This software is specifically designed for computer users who make use of portable software

Compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit versions and editions of the Windows Operating System 


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Backup and Recover tools (Live Cd)

Open source Norton Ghost Alternative


For Advanced users,
CloneZilla
Support Windows , Linux , Mac OS X

For Most users, 
Redo Backup &RecoverSupport Windows , Linux

You can use this tools by shamurshamur to create Multi Boot Disk / USB
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/XBoot.shtml