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Last post on this (for now). More portable apps:

• Asterisk Logger - Want to know some passwords?
• BareGrep - powerful search tool for windows
• NetStumbler - find wireless networks
• Angry IP Scanner - scan IP addresses
• Portable Abiword - Feature rich word processor but can be greedy on the resources
• Restoration - undelete files from a PC and track what could be undeleted when you finish on a PC
• KeePass Password Safe - great freeware app for securing my passwords
• Media player classic - more than capable media player especially with some up to date codecs

Ages after everyone else has one I’ve finally got round to getting a USB Stick. The Corsair 2GB Flash Voyager is a 2GB stick that recently got the PC Pro award for USB sticks. At £82 I thought that was pretty good value. First step was to split the stick into two 1Gb drives. One drive will have a backup of my XP files - mail, pictures, files, passwords, pdf’s of manuals - that sort of thing. This is a protected drive and also the backup file is protected too - just in case it falls into the wrong hands. The second drive contains some handy apps that will work on any machine without installing and some essential utils to fix a pc. They are:

• Portable Firefox - run Firefox without leaving a trail on the host pc.
• Portable Thunderbird - get my e-mail no matter where I am
• Miranda IM - all my chatting needs met with this package
• Filezilla - portable FTP package
• Tight VNC - both server and client for remote working
• Putty - free telnet client
• Editpad Lite - small but useful text editor
• PSPad - more feature rich text editor
• IrfanView - my favourite light weight graphics editor
• XN View - multimedia viewer that can read a lot of formats
• System Information for Windows - great program that reveals a lot of information on your or someone else’s PC
• Codestuff Starter - shows all processes and apps that are launched at Windows start-up
• Process Explorer - shows a lot more about the currently running processes than task manager
• Elcomsoft Password Recovery Suite - Just in case I forget a password
• AVG - latest copy of free edition of this great anti-virus software
• Spyware Doctor - best at scanning and removing spyware
• Zonealarm - firewall that’s better than the XP default
• WinRAR - open up all kinds of archives
• Genie Backup Manager - great backup software

That’s it for the moment. I’m sure there’s a few more tools that would be handy to carry around but that will do for now - if you think there’s anything else worth adding let me know.