winPenPack - The best portable applications for your pen drive

Portable applications, as you know, requires no installation, does not mess with the registry and does not litter you hard disk with files. The best thing about portable applications is of course, their portability. You can copy these application to a pen drive and carry it along with you and then run them directly from the pen drive.
The winPenPack is an all-in-one collection of some of the best freeware portable application for the pen drive. winPenPack comes in several editions like Essential, 1Gb, School, Game, Web and an option to make your own. These packs ranges from a few hundred MBs to 1GB. The essential pack contains a large collection of all essential tools and the school, games and the web pack has specialized applications, though most of the applications are also available in the Essential and 1GB pack.

winPenPack has it's own categorized launch menu that gives easier access to these applications. This interface is in Italian. To change it to English you have to download an additional language pack which is available at their site. Unpack the language pack to the installation directory to change the menus to English.







The winPenPack 1Gb pack contains very much everything you need. Here is the list of applications:

Graphics
· X-Zphoto (flash-based photo album generator)
· X-Gimp (image manager and elaboration)
· X-PosteRazor (any dimension poster creation and print)

Internet
· X-IpScan (IP scanner and port scanner)
· X-Firefox (internet browser)
· X-FileZilla (FTP client)
· X-WinSCP (secure FTP transfer)
· X-TightVNC (virtual Network Computing)
· X-WackGet (download manager)
· X-WinHTTrack (website copier)
· X-Kompozer (Html editor for web pages creation)
· X-MagicMailMonitor (mail monitor)
· X-Thunderbird (e-mail client)
· X-HttpFileServer (file server, file sharing through web)
· X-RSSOwl (RSS reader)
· X-Miranda (multiplatform instant messenger, with MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ compatibly)
· X-Pidgin (instant messenger with MSN, ICQ, AIM and much more compatibility)
· X-Mule (p2p)
· X-SharkTorrent (Bit Torrent client)
· X-MetMedic (.met files editor, p2p)
· X-iDC++ (p2p, compatible client with Direct Connect e DC++)
· TYPSoft FTP Server (FTP server)
· Wiki on a Stick (wiki)

Multimedia
· Checkmate Mp3 Checker (it can analyze errors in Mp3 files)
· X-dvdisaster (CD/DVD data recovery)
· X-DivXRepair (DivX repair)
· Ant Movie Catalog (movie manager that help you to manage a collection of movies DVD, CD, VideoCD, DivX, and tapes)
· X-Audacity (Audio editor)
· X-MP3Gain (analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume)
· X-Tractor (audio CD extractor)
· X-VirtualDub (video editing, DivX included)
· MediaInfo (audio/video files info)
· X-InfraRecorder (CD/DVD burner)
· MultiMediaCenter (multimedia center)
· X-MediaPlayerClassic (great Windows Media Player substitute)
· X-VideoLAN (multimedia player)
· X-ScreamerRadio (internet radio player)
· X-EasyTag (utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey's Audio
· and WavPack files)
· MediaCoder (video/audio transcoder)

Security
· X-Winpooch (real time process scanner and anti-spyware)
· X-ClamWin (antivirus)
· X-Eraser (secure and programmable files and folder delete)
· LockNote (simple text writer with password protect)
· X-NeoCrypt (single/multiple files/folder cryptography)
· X-TrueCrypt (virtual disk creation protected by password)
· DC Firewall (firewall)
· X-KeePass (store and protect your passwords)
· InstallFix Security Suite (privacy and security Windows tools)

System
· X-Abakt (backup tool)
· winMd5Sum (MD5 checksum calculator)
· Universal Extractor (allows to extract/show the content of setup.exe files)
· X-7Zip (file compressor/decompressor)
· X-UPXShell (executable and .dll compressor)
· JKDefrag (disk defragmentation)
· JKDefragTWGUI (GUI for JKDefrag)
· X-WinDirStat (disk usage statistics viewer)
· Partition Logic (Floppy Disk Image and ISO Image, Hard Disk partition creator)
· X-ProcessController (real time process controller)
· DiskCleaner (search and delete for temporary and unavailing files)
· Drive Cleanup Wizard (permanently delete useless, .bak, .tmp, temporary internet files from the computer)
· MemTest-86 (RAM test)
· Regedt33 (advanced registry editor)
· X-RegShot (allows to notice the differences in Windows registry following the installation of a program)
· X-Pserv.cpl (active system services viewer)
· X-StartupManager (program that provides you the possibility to manage the Windows startup procedure)
· X-TaskSwitchXP (Windows task manager alternative)
· X-xpy (allows to change some functions of Windows XP)

Development
· X-WinMerge (visual text file differencing and merging tool)
· X-Notepad++ (text editor enhanced)
· X-SciTE (text editor for developers)
· X-InnoSetup (installation setup creation)
· X-ISTool (Innosetup plugin)
· Web Server PAMPA (Web Server - Windows GUI that manages as a stand-alone application an AMP environment:
· Apache, MySQL and PHP)

Office
· X-Sunbird (calendar with agenda functions)
· X-Scribus (desktop publishing)
· Money Manager Ex (finance manager software)
· GUIPdftk + Pdftk (.pdf tool)
· X-Sumatra PDF (.pdf reader)
· X-Planner (project management tool)
· X-StarDict (international dictionary software)
· X-OpenOffice (office suite, Microsoft Office open source alternative)

Utilities
· X-GraphCalc (graphic calculator)
· X-CamStudio (it allows to capture desktop activity and save it as .avi file)
· Ditto (extension to the standard windows clipboard)
· X-VirtuaWin (virtual desktop management)
· Virtual Magnifying Glass (magnification glasses)
· WeatherNotify (show weather in status bar or in a window)
· X-AstroGrep (alternative hard disk files and folders searcher)
· X-ANote (pc post-it notes)
· Ant Renamer (files rename)

Libraries
· Aspell
· Ghostscript
· GTK
· Lame
· Java Runtime Environment


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