USB Goodies
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Misc.
AutoLog - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autologon.html
Automatic Logon for Windows.
BurnCDCC - http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
CD Burner.
CDex - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
Best free ripping program.
Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
PDF Reader.
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
Small, lightweight IRC client.
Locknote - http://locknote.steganos.com/Xming
Notepad + Encryption and nice packaging.
nircmd - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
Sysadmin Toolkit in one command.
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
Script highlighting, much better than notepad.
NZB-O-Matic Plus - http://www.bunnyhug.net/nomp/
Best Newgroup ‘warez’ downloader, Needs .NET Framework.
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Best SSH Tool
PWAgent - http://www.moonsoftware.com/pwagent.asp
Advanced portable password storage.
RSS Owl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RSS Reader and aggrigator.
uTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/
Best Torrent Tool.
WackGet - http://www.millweed.com/
Lightweight Download manager based on wget.
Anonymity
Anonym.OS - http://theory.kaos.to/projects.html
Anonym.OS is an OpenBSD 3.8 Live CD with strong tools for anonymizing and encrypting connections.
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxy server with with Ad and Banner blocking.
Tor - http://tor.eff.org
Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol.
TorPark - http://www.torrify.com
Portable Firefox and Tor.
OperaTor - http://letwist.net/operator
Portable Opera and Tor.
Diagnostic & Maintenance Utilities
Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/HOME/docs/buzzsaw_downloads.asp
Real Time defrag.
cpuZ - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
CPU, MB, and Ram DETAILED info.
HoverIP - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Displays Network configuration.
Portable Ad-aware 1.06r1 - http://rapidshare.de/files/26449955/Ad-aware_SE_1.06r1.zip
One of the best Ad ware detection software.
SpaceMonger - http://www.werkema.com
A visual representation of Hard drive usage.
SuperScan4 - http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/superscan.htm
Best single exec net scanning tool.
TCPOptimizer - http://www.speedguide.net/tcpoptimizer.php
Optimizes TCP settings.
Wininfo - http://www.savilltech.com/download.html
Great little tool for identifing info about computers.
MultiMedia Utilities
Gspot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Deciphers media types and codecs needed.
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/
VNC.
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
Also VNC Client/Server but updated more frequently.
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Media player, small.
Server Utilities
BabyPOP3 Server - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_pop3_server.html
POP3 Server integrates with Windows SMTP.
BabyWeb Server - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_web_server.html
ASP based Webserver.
HFS Webserver - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Instant file server with web frontend.
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxy server with with Ad and Banner blocking.
X Server - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
Not so light weight, and you have to download the fonts separate, but it can be done. Download and install both, copy the xming directory over, and uninstall, bada bing.
Sysinternals Utilities
Autoruns - http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/autoruns.html
Stop using crap startup managers (msconfig and others). All in one best manager for all startup programs and more.
Process Explorer - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
Task manager replacement. A lot more features than standard.
RootkitRevealer - http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/rootkitrevealer.html
An advanced rootkit detection utility.
TCPView - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html
Shows connections, and allows you to kill it, and/or the process.
External links
Wikipedia's List of Portable USB Apps - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_applications
PortableApps - http://portableapps.com
Portable Freeware - http://www.portablefreeware.com
Dirk Loss - Windows-Tools on CD-ROM (or USB stick) - http://www.dirk-loss.de/win-tools.htm
TinyApps - http://www.tinyapps.org