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Portable Freeware Development • Re: AutoRun LWMenu

More details are needed. Did you use an absolute folder? Are you sure they use this specific environmental variable?Maybe they use a combination of %SystemDrive%%HOMEPATH% or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: Portable Skype (AKA sPortable)

FYI, Skype is closing down :Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: CCode - new small and powerful text editor.

Update: CCode is now at 2.2.3, released on January 19th.Still a promising editor that I'm keeping an eye on. I like the new changes such as dark mode and supporting hiDPI displays. Thanks!If yubsoft...

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Chit-Chat • Re: Discord - voice and text chat

I've been using a lightweight third party Discord program called Dorion (available for Mac/Linux/Windows). They have a portable version that I haven't tested thoroughly for portability but it doesn't...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: Thunderbird - email and calendar client

For anyone that hasn't tried Thunderbird in a while you might want to come back to it. The latest version is somehow much more lightweight, smarter, and faster than any other email client out there....

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: LosslessCut - no re-encode audio/video editor

Update: Now at v3.65.0This program just keeps getting better:https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releaseshttps://linux.softpedia.com/progChangel ... 04369.htmlStatistics: Posted by webfork — Sat Mar...

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Suggestions/Discussions • Re: Take a second look at the private entries list

Sorry, no change, using it still looks like in the last screen of the video. "Looks like", yes, but the URL has been changed to use "%5B" and "%5D" in the GET paramaters.Statistics: Posted by Andrew...

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Portable Freeware Discussion • Re: PDF4QT: An open-source PDF editor designed...

A bit unstable (few crashes) and I just don't like the icons on the button bar (silly reason, but still).Statistics: Posted by lintalist — Sun Mar 23, 2025 1:09 am

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Suggestions/Discussions • System - Benchmark VS System - Monitoring

What's the difference between them? Why needing both?The only thing I can think of is that monitoring is about alerts, while benchmark is about measurements.But if so I assure you there's currently no...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: simplewall (open-source firewall)

Looks like henrypp has archived the source code for simplewall on GitHub since Feb 19: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall/. Perhaps EOL unless he decides to bring it back in the future.Statistics:...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: Atom - specialized text editor [discontinued]

Old thread update: Since Atom officially ended support on December 15, 2022, I've updated the listing with a note about this.Statistics: Posted by freakazoid — Sun Mar 23, 2025 12:50 pm

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: CustomMenu - new powerful context menu

This one looks like a keeper! I'm still using Open++, but if I'm able to get the same functionality from CustomMenu, I will move to this one.Replying so I can remember to test this at a later...

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Suggestions/Discussions • Re: System - Benchmark VS System - Monitoring

The difference between the 2 categories is as you have described, and sometimes both categories can be assigned to the same entry.If you feel strongly about certain entries being tagged the wrong...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: Notepad3 - text editor

So a new version of Notepad3 is out (Ennovy already covered the updated post) but two things that jumped out at me in the update include more markdown support and a dark mode. The dark mode...

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Portable Freeware Discussion • Is there a portable torrent client that's...

So, I noticed something interesting a while back while using the PortableApps distribution of qBittorrent. All the wrapper does is write the expected folders into %APPDATA% (and move any existing...

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Portable Freeware Discussion • Re: Is there a portable torrent client that's...

@influx: Dunno if it'll help but you could try yaP (viewtopic.php?t=5698; for examples, see viewtopic.php?t=22138) or Autorun LWmenu (viewtopic.php?t=20583) -- only they basically do that the same...

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Portable Freeware Discussion • Fort Firewall (Windows 7 and up)

Untested, but looks portable, a more elaborate version of Simplewall it seems.Website: https://github.com/tnodir/fortReleases: (Arm, 32/64bit) https://github.com/tnodir/fort/releases/tag/v3.16.8Fort...

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CLI Submissions • Re: VirusScan Command Line search for viruses

I have cls-w64-703-l.zip, and its working ok. I would like to get cls-w64-704-l.zip if possible as the latest scan dll isnt working with the older scan.exe.scan /versionCommand Line Scanner for Win64...

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Portable Freeware Submission • VinaText

Open source Text Editor and File Viewer for Windows user.Write and debug your code easily. Supports many different programming languages. Code debugger available for C, C++, Python, Javascript,...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Re: VinaText

Nice to see all these new editors on TPFC! I always like how an app touts low resource usage in their readme:Unfortunately I couldn't duplicate their claims of using 4MB RAM. I got around 9-15MB with...

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Portable Freeware Submission • Task Till Dawn - Free Task Scheduler for...

Task Till Dawn is a free task scheduler for Windows and macOS. Automate your recurring and tedious tasks so that you can concentrate on your actual work. With the built-in graphical editor, you can...

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Portable Freeware Submission • SageLinks - symlink, junction, shortcut finder...

SageLinks shows and checks Windows NTFS junctions, symbolic links and shortcuts on your PC.It's a handy app for those of us that use a lot of symlinks and junctions and forget where they might have...

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