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Windows functionality on the go
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Windows functionality on the go

by Craig Simms  on Jul 4, 2006
172/512MB
uTorrent
Always going to be contentious, since people are protective of their bandwidth. Nonetheless if you can get away with using a torrent program, at 154KB uTorrent is easily the way to go.

182/512MB
Audacity
We’ve often found ourselves in a fix where we need to chop a sound quickly, and yet all that’s been available is the paltry Windows File Recorder. Audacity offers a downloadable zip version that will happily run off your flash drive, opening the metaphorical audio barn doors for all.

184/512MB
NotePad++
A freaking awesome little program that happily obeys the three Fs – fast, functional and free. A powerful text editor that doesn’t need installation, fulfilling our requirements nicely.

188/512MB
Portable FileZilla
If you don’t feel like mucking about in the command line FTP, FileZilla is here to help. While FileZilla is normally portable in itself, this version is considerably smaller.

200/512MB
XnView Minimal + Plugins
Image viewer that doesn’t require installation, and pretty much loads any format you wish to throw at it, even audio. Pretty much required, considering how terrible Windows’ default viewer is.

367/512MB
Portable Open Office
If, for some weird reason the PC you’re sitting at doesn’t have Word or Excel, then you can thankfully run Open Office directly with little qualms, making a nice interim job until you can get back to the real thing.

368/512MB
1by1
Tiny, tiny audio player that’ll simply play MP3s in a folder. Extract the .exe to a folder rather than installing it (by using WinRAR for example) and it’s set to go. If you need something that looks a little more like your traditional MP3 player, you may want to check out XmPlay.

371/512MB
FoxIT Reader
For whatever reason, some sysadmins just don’t install Adobe Reader. FoxIT will help alleviate your pain.

Most of the above programs will keep you satiated -- however there’s no doubt you’ll find small, portable and easy to use programs elsewhere that you’ll want to add to the collection. Plus there’s just over 140MB left for documents, drivers and so forth -- nothing that should be filled too quickly unless you do graphic design, sound or video, or intend to store programs on your drive.

Come to think of it, perhaps you’d better splash out on that 1GB, or even 4GB flash drive, you know, just so you can keep everything by your side… you never know when you might need it.
This article appeared in the July, 2006 issue of PC Authority.
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