Portable Apps Bat File

If I get on someone else's PC I need apps they don't have. Here is a partial (growing) list.

Some are curls and some open download links if curl doesn't work.

Copy the text and make a .bat file.

(For install on D change first 6 C notations to D)

Curl Portable Apps

@echo off

rem 7zip Install

winget install -e --id 7zip.7zip --source winget

mkdir C:\Portable\Excluded

mkdir C:\Drivers\Benchmarks

mkdir C:\Desk

mkdir C:\Pictures\Wallpaper

mkdir C:\"Program Archives"

cd /d C:\Portable

echo Free PC Audit

curl.exe -s -L -O https://www.misutilities.com/freepcaudit.exe

echo Notepad Classic

curl.exe -s -L -O -A "Mozilla/5.0" -e "https://win7games.com" "https://win7games.com/download/notepad.zip"   

echo Unzipping notepad.zip

https://win7games.com/download/notepad.zip   

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "notepad.zip" -o"Notepad" -y -bd && del "notepad.zip"

echo WindowsUpdateMiniTool

curl.exe -s -L -o "WindowsUpdateMiniTool.zip" "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BwJH2CazcjsINFZFc1pVdk9mNHM" 

echo Unzipping WindowsUpdateMiniTool.zip

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "WindowsUpdateMiniTool.zip" -o"WindowsUpdateMiniTool" -y -bd && del "WindowsUpdateMiniTool.zip"

echo Windows_Repair_Toolbox

curl.exe -s -L -O "https://windows-repair-toolbox.com/files/Windows_Repair_Toolbox.zip" 

echo Unzipping Windows_Repair_Toolbox.zip

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "Windows_Repair_Toolbox.zip" -o"Windows_Repair_Toolbox" && del "Windows_Repair_Toolbox.zip"

echo WirelessNetworkWatcher

curl.exe -s -L -O "https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wnetwatcher.zip" 

echo Unzipping wnetwatcher.zip

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "wnetwatcher.zip" -o"wnetwatcher" -y -bd && del "wnetwatcher.zip"

echo WiseDiskCleaner

curl.exe -s -L -o "WDCFree.zip" "https://downloads.wisecleaner.com/soft/WDCFree_11.1.6.832.zip" 

echo Unzipping WDCFree.zip

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "WDCFree.zip" && del "C:\Portable\WDCFree.zip"

echo HWINFO

curl.exe -s -L -o "hwi_822.zip" "https://sourceforge.net/projects/hwinfo/files/Windows_Portable/hwi_822.zip/download" 

echo Unzipping hwi_822.zip

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "hwi_822.zip" -o"hwinfo" -y -bd && del "hwi_822.zip"

echo Volumouse 64

curl.exe -s -L -O https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse-x64.zip

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "volumouse-x64.zip" -o"volumouse-x64" -y -bd && del "volumouse-x64.zip"

echo Portableapps

curl.exe -s -L -o "PortableApps.exe" "https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/latest/download"

echo UltraVirusKiller

curl.exe -s -L -o "UVK.exe" "https://www.carifred.com/uvk/UVKPortable.exe"

echo Revo Uninstaller

curl.exe -s -L -O https://sourceforge.net/app/revo-uninstaller-portable/files/windows/RevoUninstallerPortable_2.4.1.paf.exe/

echo these open browser to download

echo Safe Mode Launcher

start https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/safe_mode_launcher.html

echo I hate the Portableapps splash screen on their programs.

echo 1. In app folder copy .ini file and paste in root of folder.

echo 2. Rename the .ini same name as program

echo 3. Open .ini and change DisableSplashScreen=true

Pause

Info Select Is Back and It Is Portable

Sometime before 911 I abandoned Info Select, my favorite note taking, quick search program because it continued to bloat, charge for updates and suffer incompatibilities with new versions of Windows. I have mourned the loss and have never found a suitable replacement.

Today, as I have repeatedly done over the years, Googled for an Info Select replacement. Apparently when the programming rats abandoned the sinking Info Select ship, they did not drown but swam to shore and produced All My Notes.

I wish there was a cloud based app like this but I have not found one to compare. The search function is incredible. Categorizing may be handy but really not necessary. Just get the information in and let the search find it instantaneously.

Maybe I will hate it when I start using it again but I'm giving it a shot.

Cameyo.com for Portable Apps

I am a big fan of portable applications for PC. These are apps that need no installation and can run from their own folder or a simple *.exe file. To be truly "portable" they need to leave no trace on the system after running, normally not terribly important. The programs can be run from anywhere, a USB drive for example.

Cameyo.com has a program that easily allows you to make most programs portable if that program is not already available in stand alone version. But Cameyo also has a huge storehouse of programs that can be run form it's cloud. This could be convenient when operating a foreign computer if unarmed with your trusty flash drive. Cameyo provides the option to either download each stand alone program or run it form the cloud.

Hat Tip: http://www.intowindows.com/run-windows-apps-from-the-cloud/

Tweaking Windows 7

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a stand alone tweaker worth trying even if you only want to remove "shortcut to" dialog.

I don't do much tweaking with Window's 7 on a fast dual core. I even leave indexing on. But there are a few things. Maybe I will add them here some day.

LiberKey The Portable Solution

(One irritation with this software is if you wait a long time between updating, it will painfully install each and every patch to the main program in order while awaiting your input between each patch. Why not roll up the patches? Oh well, it is free.)

LiberKey is a portable software data base to place on your hard drive or flash drive. It updates the programs automatically and easily. The update feature is awesome. I used many of these programs before I found LiberKey and had to chase down the updates individually.

The LiberKey program is itself portable as well as the programs which reside in the directory. It resides on the disk without installing. When you run the LK "install" it is simply extracting LK in a location of your choice. Each time you start LK it updates itself first. Then it checks on the individual programs within the data base and offers to update those if updates exist. You can select all or parts.
The only thing that takes a little manual hunting is if some program has been added to the package after you initially downloaded it. LK will not add these programs automatically. If you view the program list on LK's web site these programs are clearly marked and you can download a manual install from here if you wish to add the program. Activate the LK associations after download and the new program can be added to LK by simply clicking the download. Remember to turn off "associations" when done. Henceforth that program will update. You can add additional programs from LK that are not included in your specific package. You can also add and index your own programs but I don't bother because these will not update and I simply have LK as an addition to my portable directory. I use Launchy to actually find and start the programs. Launchy is another program I can no longer do without.
Again, I am stupendously impressed with this LiberKey portable collection and management system.
Definition of Portable: The program runs without installation and leaves no trace on the environment of having been run. (Do any of LK's programs leave traces? I don't know.)

2014-01-18 This is a list of programs I use somewhat regularly but I just download the Ultimate Suite.