lotse Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Its really just out of curiosity. I'm a great fan of them, and a lot of them are just as functional as the installed versions. At my latest count I have 12 not installed! My newsgroup reader (xnews) My email client (Scribe) CCleaner Unit Conversion utility FsCapture Jpeg cleaner mediaplayer classic Anagram solver/finder (Teabag - haven't found another version of this for years) Pdf reader HjSplit Mrublaster Dscypryt Firefox Anybody have any more they'd recommend? (Many thanks to the members of this forum who led me to dscrypt, unit conversion and Fscapture... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 222 on my laptop.......lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 I assume you mean programs that don't need to be installed? Having looked and actually starting listing them it seems I have quite a few: Autoruns Clickster Dial-a-Fix DiskView DShutdown Erunt + NTRegOpt FileHippo Update Checker Foxit Reader JKDefrag Miranda IM Process Explorer PSKill RegSeeker SIW (System Information for Windows) TCP Optimiser TinyResMeter TreeSize Universal UXTheme Patcher Zoned Out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Process Explorer Autoruns Jk Defrag FS Capture MwSnap Foxit PDF Reader Sumatra PDF Reader Power Menu My Uninsatller SIW HD Tune Zoomit Hijack This Panda Anti Root-kit Rootkit Buster xplorer2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 18, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 18, 2007 Audio related: * FLAC * LAME * OggEnc2 aoTuV * Tag Frontend w/Tag * Volumax * WaveGain ...and of course batch files to run various built-in Windows crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talldog9 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 winMd5Sum Portable (portableapps.com) resource hacker hjsplit mplayer mac makeup vuescan angry ip scanner advanced process termination advanced process manipulation autoruns calcute dshutdown dspeech dtaskmanager filehippo update checker HDHacker mac spoofer partitionmagic performance pinging ping test easy process explorer process monitor lame ogg speex my volume thing ultima port scanner wnvolumeosd hidden toggle script faststone maxview faststone capture truecrypt ?torrent media player classic the kmplayer The internet - Where men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 19, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 19, 2007 I think stand alone programs are awesome for certain things. I have noticed that they do seem slower than installed ones(for things like firefox, openoffice, ect.). I used to litterally have tons of them but not so much anymore. Right now I only use: Autoruns CCleaner hijackthis Foxit Reader Keynote(this is actually one of the best applications ever period. I use it to store my hijackthis log speeches but its good to take notes with too. I use onenote for that though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 19, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 19, 2007 Someone has to ask the question, and it may as well be me. How do you guys define a "standalone" program? Seems to be a bit of a grey area according to Wiki. Stand-alone is a loosely defined term used to sort computer programs. It tries to draw some distinction between programs invoked by some computer event and those invoked by other programs. However this distinction does not stand up to scrutiny outside the context of certain embedded systems, since the computer has usually to be running some program that prepares (and sometimes initially processes) the "stand-alone" program to begin with. Hence all programs are launched or prepared/processed by other programs (with the sole exception of the bootstrap loader), and no code can really be said to stand alone. If "stand-alone" is more widely defined as a program not needing the services of other programs (except maybe firmware) once it is running, then most operating systems can also justifiably be called "stand-alone", since they need the bootstrap loader only for starting up. This is the definition of a "stand-alone application" that is used e.g. in the C programming language standards. Normal applications are called "hosted applications" in contrast. If this Wiki article is an accurate description, how do you tell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 19, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 19, 2007 * Volumax Sorry to drift off topic, but I was wondering how you kept those silky locks in such good condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Regseeker Palmail MWsnap Foxit Reader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 20, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 20, 2007 Someone has to ask the question, and it may as well be me. How do you guys define a "standalone" program? I personally define standalone as a program that doesn't write anything into the registry and only operates from either command line, or if GUI'd operates via an .ini file and/or .bat batch file. Of course some of the audio related programs I use like Speeks Frontends do require some system files being present; mscomctl.ocx, tabctl32.ocx, Microsoft Visual Basic Run-Time v6.0 Service Pack 6 Sorry to drift off topic, but I was wondering how you kept those silky locks in such good condition. The Volumax I use is an audio normalization program to make .wav audio files full scale (or slightly less which is what I use it for), the opposite of Replaygain I suppose. I didn't even know there was a Volumax hair product, at least it isn't something worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 20, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 20, 2007 My interpretation of "standalone" would have been things like Dial-a-fix, StartupLite, HijackThis, Process Scanner. In other words applications that are a simple exe file and don't require an installation involving Program Files folders etc., but that interpretation obviously isn't the general concensus of what a standalone program actually is. Andavari:- Thanks for the links, I've downloaded that Volumax. It'll be a good companion for another program I've been using recently, MP3gain, which I find very useful. Pleased to here you don't use the hair product. This is a link Hazel gave me. The stuff seems to be pretty aggressive. Link: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
login123 Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 I'm a great fan of them. . .Anybody have any more they'd recommend? . . . Also a fan, might even qualify as an "Installaholic". This not a list of recommendations, just apps that worked for me. Don't know how many qualify as stand alone. Other members might know of better apps for the same purposes. Recuva CCleaner Restoration Avira Unerase CPUZ SIW core Temp HDTune HDView Process Explorer (and just about anything from sysinternals) autoruns TCPView Loadorder Sdelete Movefile pendmoves filalyzer regalyzer Clamwin scanner IceSword RootKit Revealer Sophos Rootkit finder Detect Keylogger The CCleaner SLIM version is always released a bit after any new version; when it is it will be HERE :-) Pssssst: ... It isn't really a cloud. Its a bunch of big, giant servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 20, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 20, 2007 I've downloaded that Volumax. It'll be a good companion for another program I've been using recently, MP3gain, which I find very useful. Just be careful with it though as you can very easily induce clipping into the audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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