Portable Freeware - No installation required
The tools list here have been developed to be portable. They can executed from removable storage devices USB memory sticks. Being portable also means that these utilities do not need to be installed. When you next update or reinstall Windows you can simply copy a folder of portable utilities to your new installation.
Productivity Tools
TaskSculpta is a flexible automation, integration, and task performing tool for Windows that allows semi-technical to developers to automate complex work-flows and IT tasks without requiring extensive programming knowledge. Programmers will also find it useful as it call execute Python and VBscripts. It also provides an interface to console applications or anything that requires parameters passed to it.
Taskflexa is a comprehensive task management tool with lots of fields for organizing, group and sorting your tasks. You can add tasks easily and quickly at the bottom of the screen by typing in the task and pressing enter and then the next one. This is a very quick way of inputting your tasks. If you already have a list of tasks as text then you can add them all at once by using the 'Batch Insert' on the main tool bar at the top. Tasks can also be imported from other task lists create by TaskFlexa.
Chronometask is a cool looking digital timer, a bit like an oven timer. When the time is up it can execute a program, display a message, sound an audible alarm or even shutdown Windows. The time can be repeated in a loop so that a task can be performed hourly for example.
Database Tools
SQLite Inspector Plus is a portable general purpose database viewer and editor for SQLite database files. It can be used for performing SQL queries and update statements, viewer and editing table data and columns as well as add and exporting tables. SQlite Inspector Plus can also perform tasks specific to the SQlite databases such as the ability to temporarily attach another database and query the two together. More features will be added in time.
MDB Viewer allows you to view, edit, query and search Access MDB and Accdb files. It has a tabbed interface for switching between tables. It can also handle workgroup files when opening MDB files. Data can be imported and exported to a number of different formats. Tables can be sorted and filtered. This tool is useful for software developers who are using an Access database as their backend database for their software.
DBF Viewer Plus is another database viewer very similar to MDB Viewer Plus. It can view, edit, import and export DBF files. Tables can be searched and filtered by field values. Data can be imported and export to and from a number of different file formats.
A useful utility for software and database developers to simply retrieve a field list from a selected table within an ADO compatible database.
System Utilities
System Spec is a utility that produces a detailed specification of your computer's hardware, software and capabilities. The main details are laid out in a nice easy to read form style. The details can be saved, printed and exported.
Drive Manager continually monitors the space available of all of your drive letters and displays detailed information about each drive as well as providing easy access to drive related tools and functions. It can also be used to hide drives so there are not visible in windows explorer. Drive Manager can also create substitute drive letters for local folders. Drive Manager makes it quick and easy to differentiate between a number of similar drives.
The purpose of this utility is to detect the optical drive's (CD / DVD drives) Read/Write capabilities. When looking at the front of a computer which is not your own it is often difficult to tell whether the optical drive installed is either a CD ROM, CD Writer, CD Rewriter, DVD ROM, CD Rewriter + DVD Combo, DVD/CD Rewriter etc.
The utility allows you to recover you CD key for Windows for the purposes of reinstalling / repairing your Windows setup.
Have information and control over your open windows and running processes.
Miscellanious Utilities
A simple freeware downloadable VAT calculator.
A portable utility for viewing your URL history.
A portable network IP address scanner. It can scanning using two different modes; fast and thorough.
Word Density Seizer is a free tool for calculating word density and counting words in text.
A utility for viewing digital photos and the exif data and camera settings stored within the photos.