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PC Inspector File Recovery v4.0 Private

Checker on 7 May 2013
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Barrette

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS filesystems. It finds
partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, even when a header entry is no longer available. It also supports the saving of recovered files on network drives.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder C:\Program Files\PC Inspector File Recovery.
  2. Copy all files into a folder of your choice.
  3. Uninstall the program.
  4. Launch Filerecovery.exe.
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Ste on 2007-02-20 02:56

This is just a repackage of "Drive Rescue" and is much bigger!

PJ on 2009-07-09 00:16

You may wish to avoid this if you have actual hard errors on the drive, every time there is a read error a message pops up and you have to click on it! There could be hundreds perhaps thousands of read errors if you've lost a cylinder or two, and you'd have to sit and click on them all - lame design.

UltimaCyberman on 2009-12-24 17:27

Several times I faced the situation when I needed to recover deleted files. And I used MultiStage Recovery file recovery tool.
As advertised, it employs every single feature of NTFS and FAT file systems to recover files quickly and efficiently. And it seems to be true. But
the program supports only Windows.

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ICE Mirror v2.0 Private

Checker on 7 May 2013
  • 489KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

ICE Mirror creates or maintains an exact duplicate of the original directory. ICE Mirror will compare the mirrored directory to the master directory and correct any disparities. ICE Mirror allows ultra fast mirroring because it only copies files that have changed. It also supports differential updates by copying all changed files to a second mirror directory.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder C:\Program Files\ICE Mirror.
  2. Copy all files (except uninst.exe) to a folder of your choice.
  3. Uninstall the program.
  4. Launch ICEMirror.exe.
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Nh on 2009-02-03 06:24

Very good program. Unfortunately seems its development stopped.

Midas on 2013-05-10 13:06

Good single executable mirroring utility; command line operation enabled. UniExtraction works as alternative method for getting portable...

smaragdus on 2015-10-02 03:41

The missing forum thread- http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20945

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Orient v2.5 Private

Checker on 2 May 2013
  • 337KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Orient is a Unicode text editor that provides bi-directional text support for Arabic or Hebrew languages (RightToLeft) and support for Asian languages (Chinese and Japanese).

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Windows registry. But given the rather limited settings allowed by the application, I think it can be accepted as portable.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch orient.exe.
Latest comments
Jaw on 2009-01-01 00:57

The homepage seems to no longer exist.
But I found the program here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/Orient.shtml

And I'm sure other mirrors exist.

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Kolorgenerator v1.1.0.3 Private

Checker on 7 May 2013
  • 698KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Kolorgenerator is an application designed for people working with colors. Besides providing the usual palettes for color selection, it is able to export the color in various formats eg. HTML, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal etc. It also provides a dropper tool for selecting color from any point of the desktop.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the EXE and CHM files to a folder of your choice. Launch kolorgenerator.exe.

Classic WordZap v2.20 Private

Checker on 7 May 2013
  • 284KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Classic WordZap is a word game where you race against your computer opponent to create the most unique words from a given set of letters. When opponents make the same word, it is zapped from both lists.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Windows folder. But given the nature of the application and the small number of settings it exposes, I think it can be accepted as portable.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the EXE file to a folder of your choice. Launch CWordZap.exe.
Latest comments
donald on 2010-06-22 15:56

I would like to point out this statement made in the FAQ

"Q. Is WordZap free?
A. No. We try to make a living developing and improving it. However we have negotiated site licenses with Igames so that when you play from their sites you do not need to be registered with us. You will need to register to play off-line or a LAN."

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Handler v1.5

webfork on 25 Jun 2017

Handler provides various information about a certain window or just any control under the mouse cursor. In addition, it will also reveal any text in an obscured password entry field.

Note: The application website appears to be down, so I have enabled direct download for this entry.

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Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch handler.exe.

MailReactor v0.9 Private

Checker on 7 May 2013

MailReactor is a mailing list software for sending email to a number of addresses. It can be used to send email to subscribers to a notification service, like program updates, announcements etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MailReactor.exe.

Power-Grab 2002 v2.5 Private

Checker on 7 May 2013

Power-Grab downloads files from a Usenet News server. It supports up to 8 simultaneous connections, and automatically decodes UU-Encoded and yEnc-encoded files. Downloads can be stopped and restarted any time, and will auto-resume after unexpected disconnects or server outages.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch POWRGRAB.EXE.
Latest comments
nostariel on 2006-09-09 10:27

same here, no joy. website seems to be gone.

Andrew Lee on 2006-09-10 06:42

I have added a direct download link for this entry until the website is up again.

joe on 2007-11-10 18:28

direct link and the program work all right,
but the former program webpage is now home to one of those lame search engines.

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Drive Rescue v1.9d Private

Checker on 7 May 2013
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Drive Rescue is an undelete/data recovery tool. It finds any lost and deleted data in your FAT12/16/32 filesystems even if the partition table is lost or the drive is physically damaged.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder C:\Program Files\Drive Rescue.
  2. Copy all files (except unins000.exe and unins000.dat) into a folder of your choice.
  3. Uninstall the program.
  4. Launch rescue.exe.
Latest comments
ionone on 2008-06-29 03:54

the link is dead

ionone on 2008-06-29 03:57

new link (renamed)

http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1

Wolfghost on 2010-01-27 01:00

Hehe I think we try this instead:

http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/download-Drive_Rescue.html

And use External Mirror #1

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Splitter & Merger v5.5

Checker on 3 Aug 2014

Splitter & Merger splits large files of any size into smaller ones and recombines them easily. It is able to compress files before splitting them, as well as generate self-extracting file sets.

Note: The application website appears to be offline, so I have made a copy available for direct download.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the full version ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Splitter.exe.
Latest comments
long.Knight on 2009-06-04 12:54

it looks good but in trying to split a 4gb file it seemed to stall forever saying "calculating checksum". After 30 minutes of this I I used taskmanager to kill it... If it was still working it needs to show some kind of progress indicator... I went back to an old favorite (HJ Split) and things went smooth as ice.

Euler German on 2009-11-05 17:59

About long.Knight comments: just split a 4,62MB .ISO file in 5 parts (auto-extract option) in 23 minutes. I used an old AMD Duron/1.01GHz, ASUS A7A266 MoBo, 384MB RAM, WinXP Pro SP3. Original file obtained from rejoined in 17 minutes, same machine.

N.B. the progress bar DOES freeze on large files splitting and merging.

Yuhler on 2010-07-27 15:30

S&M works fine on large files. Splitting a 19.70GB HDD image into 700MB chunks took 30'17" and 32'51" to rejoin, both with checksum, on an old AMD Athlon 64 3000+, ASUSTek K8V-XE MoBo, 2.0GB Single-Channel DDR @ 200MHz, and MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3.
And I didn't stop any of my regular running tasks. Awesome for a 34KB tool!

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