We’re going to continue with more USB drive applications, picking up where we left off last time.
Multimedia
Portable Audacity
Portable Audacity is a launcher for the popular Audacity audio manipulation program. It can edit all major formats and add effects such as compression and studio reverb. It is extensible via plugins as well.
DeepBurner Free Portable Edition
DeepBurner Portable works straight from your removable media, whether it’s a USB flash drive, compact flash card, or even a good old floppy.
GSpot
A codec information appliance.
IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
LC ISO Creator
LC ISO Creator creates ISO files from CD/DVD-ROM.
VCDGear
VCDGear is a program designed to allow a user to extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, and more — all in a single step. Initially developed back in late 1997, the program has grown to do various extractions, conversions, and corrections on the fly. Cross-platform support will allow different machines to process and generate output that is compatible between one another.
VLC
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Network
ChrisControl
Want to connect to that remote system? Unsure if there is any remote control software loaded on the remote system? ChrisControl can help! All you need is the remote server IP address or hostname and a valid username and password for the remote system.
CurrPorts
CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.
MoonEdit
Cooperative multi-user text editing over the Internet. Every co-author can edit the shared document at any time, from any place, and at the same time! There’s no need to send files via FTP or to compare documents when multiple users need to make changes to it independently.
MAC MakeUp
Did you ever get bored with your old MAC address? If you did, this is the solution! Mac MakeUp let’s you change the MAC address of any of the interfaces present on your Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista box.
miniRelay
A small SMTP mail server and relayer.
SoftPerfect Network Scanner
SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).
In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report if it is found open, resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range.
Baby POP3 Server
Simple POP3 server, which doesn’t take many resources and supports most of the standard POP3 commands.
portaPuTTY
portaPuTTY is a hacked version of PuTTY that stores all its information in files, not in the registry. I made this version so I could have a good SSH client to run from a USB drive.
Remote Execute
ReExec (Remote Execute) can start applications on remote computers. Also Shutdown, reboot remote host without anything installed on the remote host. Just download Remote execute and run.
Simple Socket File Transfer
This utility will transfer a file between two computers using a TCP port of your choosing. One computer uses Passive mode and listens on a port for a connection from the other computer, which will use Active mode to connect to the first computer via its IP address. Regardless of the selection of which computer will use Passive mode and which will use Active mode, files can be sent in either direction. Partially completed transfers can be resumed, and files are automatically checked with MD5 to ensure they were received error-free. This utility is available in both ANSI and Unicode builds, and has no dependencies on any libraries beyond those included with Windows. The Unicode build supports Windows XP visual styles and Unicode file names.
IP Tools
The IP tools are:
- Bandwidth monitor.
- Adapter statistics (IP & NDIS).
- Wireless Stumbler.
- List and manage ARP entries, resolve IP to MAC, resolve MAC to IP, send a WAKEUP call.
- List and manage routes, enable & disable host as a router.
- List and manage open ports and attached processes.
- Edit network config.
- Hook winsock (winsock32.dll & ws2_32.dll).
- Spoof ARP (and do ARP cache poisoning), spoof TCP, spoof UDP, spoof ICMP, spoof DHCP Release.
- Change MAC address, discover remote mac addresses.
- SNMP Get & Set, List interfaces, Switch port mapper, Media Attachment Unit table.
- WINS Query.
- DNS (advanced) Query, DNS Server, Local resolver.
- DHCP Server (with PXE support), DHCP Discover.
- Whois Query.
- SMTP client.
- TCP tools (TCP ping, TCP half scan, Time-Daytime client/server).
- UDP tools (MSSQL Ping, SNMP ping, SSDP scan, Syslog client/server, Time-Daytime client/server, tftp server).
- ICMP tools.
- TCP/UDP bounce port.
MS Networks:
- Enum servers by type, Spoof net send, Shutdown remote windows, Display remote windows properties, Display remote netbios names, Enum Terminal Services processes and sessions, Enum remote print ports, Enum remote drivers, Enum remote AT jobs, Enum remote scheduled tasks.
Password tools:
- Edit protected storage (IE, Outlook Express, …) , Decrypt Dialup Passwords , Dump XP Credentials ( MSN, network shares, …) & decrypt passwords , Decode IE history, Reveal asterisks / hidden passwords, decode RDP, Decode MSAccess passwords, enum WEP keys.
- List and manage local & remote processes.
- Tiny firewall (using Windows API).
- Get internet IP.
Tftpd32
Tftpd32 includes DHCP, TFTP, SNTP and Syslog servers as well as a TFTP client.
The TFTP client and server are fully compatible with TFTP option support (tsize, blocksize and timeout), which allow the maximum performance when transferring the data.
Some extended features such as directory facility, security tuning, interface filtering; progress bars and early acknowledgments enhance usefulness and throughput of the TFTP protocol for both client and server.
The included DHCP server provides unlimited automatic or static IP address assignment.
TightVNC Viewer
TightVNC is a free remote control software package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.
Security
FileMon
FileMon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon’s timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome. FileMon is so easy to use that you’ll be an expert within minutes. It begins monitoring when you start it, and its output window can be saved to a file for off-line viewing. It has full search capability, and if you find that you’re getting information overload, simply set up one or more filters.
ICE ECC
ICE ECC is a file verification and repair tool. ICE ECC allows you to protect your important files and sensitive data against digital corruption using Reed-Solomon codes.
KeePass
KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
MD5summer
MD5summer is an application for Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP which generates and verifies md5 checksums. Its output file is compatible with the output of the Linux GNU MD5Sum and it will also read Linux generated files.
Portmon
Portmon is a utility that monitors and displays all serial and parallel port activity on a system. It has advanced filtering and search capabilities that make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use ports, or tracking down problems in system or application configurations.
Protected Storage PassView
Protected Storage PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored on your computer by Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and MSN Explorer. The passwords are revealed by reading the information from the Protected Storage.
Regmon
Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry, which keys they are accessing, and the Registry data that they are reading and writing - all in real-time. This advanced utility takes you one step beyond what static Registry tools can do, to let you see and understand exactly how programs use the Registry. With static tools you might be able to see what Registry values and keys changed. With Regmon you’ll see how the values and keys changed.
Restoration
Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, it also provides the option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. The program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards.
RootkitRevealer
RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender.
SniffPass
SniffPass is small freeware utility that listens to your network, capture the passwords that pass through your network adapter, and display them on the screen instantly. SniffPass can capture the passwords of the following Protocols: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication passwords).
Torpark
Run Torpark and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously. How much does Torpark cost? IT’S FREE.
Zip Password Finder
ZIP password finder is a completely free tool to recover zip archive passwords. A lot of functions, a nice easy to use interface and $0 price make it the best choice for .zip password recovery.
System Tools
Explore2fs
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.
Folder Size
Helps you figure out where all that hard drive space has gone on your computer.
Visually displays the size of each folder in the form of a bar graph… double click a folder bar and it will drill down and show sizes of folders within… handy utility to have… give it a try.
FSRaid
Since FSRaid has become the #1 PAR tool on the net, it has receive a great amount of support from the community.
ImageMaker
Build a complete snapshot of your hard drive.
menuApp
menuApp is an application which allows you to configure menus and use them to launch your favourite programs, music files, documents, websites, etc.
Process Explorer
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
ProduKey
ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your computer.
PsTools
The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource Kits come with a number of command line tools that help you administer your Windows NT/2K systems. Over time, I’ve grown a collection of similar tools, including some not included in the Resource Kits. What sets these tools apart is that they all allow you to manage remote systems as well as the local one. The first tool in the suite was PsList, a tool that lets you view detailed information about processes, and the suite is continually growing. The “Ps” prefix in PsList relates to the fact that the standard UNIX process listing command-line tool is named “ps”, so I’ve adopted this prefix for all the tools in order to tie them together into a suite of tools named PsTools.
System Information for Windows
This program perform computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for CPU, motherboard, chipset, BIOS, CPU, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP devices, memory, monitor, video card, disk drives, CD/DVD devices, SCSI devices, S.M.A.R.T., ports, network cards, printers, operating system, installed programs and hotfixes, processes, services, serial numbers (CD keys), users, open files, system uptime, network, network shares, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, memory, page file usage and network traffic. It displays currently active network connections, passwords hidden behind asterisks, installed codecs, and more.
Unknown Devices
Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.
By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards to figure out what they are.
Program supports Win95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP and 2003 but not NT. It also attempts to support future OSes.
It runs fine from a CD or floppy. It’s free for personal and (especially) business use.
Visual CD
Visual CD is a disk cataloging tool to index CD/DVDs, floppy disks, hard disks, and even folders. You can then explore the disk catalogs, search files and folders, create MP3 playlist file without having the physical disks in the drive. Upon insertion of the corresponding disk, you can open files, split files into smaller pieces, extract ZIP, RAR, and CAB archive, and more.
WinAudit
The programme reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorised for ease of viewing and text searching. Whether your interest is in software compliance, hardware inventory, technical support, security or just plain curiosity, WinAudit has it all. The programme has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows update and firewall settings.
WinMerge
WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
To Be Continued…
There is one more installment in this five part series. In it, I will be looking at some of the challenges that my USB drive setup presents along with some good resources available on the Internet for your thumbdrive.
I’ll see you then!
| Trackback link - http://www.dailycupoftech.com/zen-and-the-art-of-the-usb-drive/usb-drive-applications-part-2/trackback/ |
|
September 15th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Have you had a look at KeePass Password Safe? If you want to take a look at some other Portable Apps then check out Tim Fehlmans list here and here. SEO expert Grawolf (AKA Micheal Gray) was interviewed this week. Find out what he has to say about SEO at The SEO Interviews - Part 2. Burt has found a New Monetisation Scheme. It’s always a good idea to scope out what is successful to see if you
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Great post Tim - a lot of these I knew about, but others I did not, and I thought I have scoured the ‘Net more than most folks…:)
March 28th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Windows Update Without Windows Update Wish List Zen and the Art of the USB Drive Series Limitations, Challenges, and Resources My Philosophy of the USB Drive Setup and Configuration of My USB Drive USB Drive Applications Part 1 USB Drive Applications Part 2
August 8th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
[…] USB Drive Applications Part 2 […]