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Search and Replace tool for Windows Registry
Registry Finder
Free
Portable
Windows XP-10
View all search results in a list.
Undo actions.
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Portable encryption for USB flash drives
In the free arena, Veracrypt is still an excellent choice and is being maintained with both patches and improvements, and is cross-platform.
In the paid area, software like Checkpoint can do (for ...
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HTTP server (portable) for 32 bit Windows XP which requires no admin rights
The easiest solution I've found is a program called EasyPHP. It's really simple to use and requires absolutely no admin rights. It's also free and includes support for PHP, MySQL, and backed by Apache....
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HTTP server (portable) for 32 bit Windows XP which requires no admin rights
Knowing, from other questions that you have python installed, presumably at least python 2.5.4 on XP. All you need to run a basic web server on XP with no admin rights is simply cd to the root ...
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On-the-fly encryption solution for external drive
Western Digital Passport external USB drives use hardware encryption, no need to use software. Here's a 3TB one from Amazon for $120usd. But beware, if the drive breaks you won't be able to get the ...
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Free portable Message Sequence Chart Generator
You can pack all dependencies in one executable. Such programs like BoxedApp Packer and Enigma Virtual Box can create a portable version of the program. Works for Windows.
BoxedApp is not gratis, ...
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Portable single executable browser alternative to QtWeb
I hate to answer my own question, but here are the results of my research. I won't accept this as an answer for a while in case someone does recommend a proper replacement that fulfils my requirements....
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Lightweight "USB stick runnable" JavaScript/plain text editor for Mac?
First: generally speaking (which is to say, in a majority of cases), applications in OS X are just files with a .app extension*. You can move app files wherever you want, and double click on one to ...
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deleted files secure eraser
You can't find such portable tool.
More precisely, it can be portable as "no installation required" but it can't be portable as "no administrator privileges required". Direct disk access requires ...
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Free Mindmap software that supports python API
XMind is very good and has a python API but it is not platform agnostic other than the Cloud version which is currently only available with the pro-subscription.
However Leo is an outline based IDE, ...
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Free, portable, Windows email client with auto-correct spelling
Portable Apps has a portable version of Thunderbird that should do the job nicely.
Gratis - Yes
Windows (10) - Yes & 7/8
Support Multiple email addresses/accounts - Yes
Plays well with GMail and ...
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Portable QR Code (QRcode) generation app for Windows
I’ve been using Zint Barcode Studio, it handles 50 different barcode formats including QRcode(2008), open source and portable (will exe from USB stick)!
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zint
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Portable, no-admin, no-install, Win/Linux USB encryption/decryption on the go
The way you want the program to work is deeply flawed concerning protection of the files, as they would stay decrypted on the USB drive until the encryption program is run again.
Instead, the way to ...
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Portable FTP server for 32 bit Windows XP with no admin rights
So, the one I've found is called Quick`n Easy FTP Server Lite. It is pretty simple to use but does give if need quite a few advanced options. It's free and compatible with windows XP. Now, in regard ...
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Source code editor for HTML/CSS/JS with projects support
I would recommend Komodo Edit by ActiveState. It meets all of your requirements of,
Having Javascript, HTML, CSS syntax highlighting
Having Auto-complete & Calltips support for the above lanuages
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Program to draw anywhere on screen
If you run Windows XP/7/10 as guest vm on Ubuntu host, there is an open source software Gromit-MPX. See Gromit-MPX for Thinkpad Yoga 12, and a short video on Desktop Annotation, Draw Anywhere on ...
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Japanese/English speech translator
I think I found it out myself: it is NTT DOCOMO JSpeak.
Available for iOS and Android. Free for five uses then you have to pay for a time-based subscription (1 week, 2 weeks etc.)
Important notice: ...
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Free portable Message Sequence Chart Generator
Summing up my comments above :
Use dependency walker to find all the dll's that are necessary for your software.
Use a tool like molebox to package everything in one portable executable.
Final step: ...
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Free file storage, working as Git/GitHub, Windows, portable
You can try MEGA:
50GB free
Can synchronize files through MEGAsync (you can copy the MEGAsync from %appdata% to your USB-stick)
You can share files
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Portable convert excel to mysql
Try https://sqlizer.io (I work here) which converts Excel (xls and xlsx) files to SQL databases. It's free for small databases (under 5000 rows) then costs $15.
You have to tell it which worksheet and ...
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HTML, CSS, PHP Portable Editor
CodeLobster portable is a "Free portable IDE for PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript development". I used it for years anbd was very happy with it, before moving on to JetBrains products, which are not always ...
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Cheap and portable text expander for Windows
I doubt you'll find a piece of software that cheap, given the number of requirements you have.
I am the author of PhraseExpander but our pricing starts at $59 given the features and quality we offer ...
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PDF editor that can arrange pages visually (on a page-thumbnail grid...)
NAPS2 is a free, open source Windows application (with experimental Linux support in beta), available in both installer and portable forms. I believe it does everything you want it to. While it was ...
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Tool to launch non-portable software from external hard disk
VMWare Thinapp (formerly Thinstall) enables you to create your own portable applications, using a virtual registry.
I used it several years ago to package an Office 2007 installation, and it worked ...
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Tool to launch non-portable software from external hard disk
I found Enigma Virtual Box Free, Lightweight, perfect.
EDIT : Enigma Virtual Box has many downsides. I found Cameyo Packager what is more stable and have less antivirus false alerts. Unlike Enigma ...
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Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool?
PrettyDiff is CC0 licensed -
"Pretty Diff project, as of version 2.1.17 and all following versions
unless otherwise changed, is licensed with a Creative Commons 1.0
Universal license (CC0)."
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Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool?
I use Diffuse. From the "About" page:
Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python.
Diffuse should run on any POSIX operating system, including Mac OS X,
with the ...
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Share clipboard across multiple Win10 PCs
Ditto Clipboard Manager seems to be able to do what you want except the portable part. For the portable app you will have to look at PortableApps.com
Easy to use interface
Search and paste previous ...
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OS agnostic solution for encrypting USB flash drives?
Veracrypt has clients for Windows, Linux, and macos, I'm pretty sure it can run as a "portable" app in most of them.
And it's FOSS, so even if "the software manufacturer could stop supporting it at ...
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