You can include and exclude certain files and browse the backups with the Backup Explorer. Great for backing up (or one way synchronising) your work or home documents to flash memory or saving every change you make to your source code or image files.

Making it Portable

Use the tool Uniextract to make this application portable. Check this article to know how.

Features

• Select any number of separate folders or folder trees (including sub folders) to watch for changes – each folder tree has its own independent settings
• Select straight backup or one of two versioning modes
• Select any folder, drive or FTP to backup to (including memory sticks and network drives)
• Option to create an initial backup before the automatic backup starts and ensure it is current on every startup
• Backups can be checked automatically, at a set time or manually
• Restrict which files and folders to include and exclude (by file mask) & maximum size
• Change the versioning date/time stamp format and versioning rate.
• Zip or delete old versions after a specified time (or just keep storing the files)
• Optionally delete backup files on original file deletion permanently or to the Recycle Bin
• Fault tolerance in case your backup folder/drive goes off line or source files are locked. Drives re-sync’ed when they come online
• MS Office, Visual Studio plus many others supported (temp file creation, delete then rename is treated as original file change)
• Backup file & version explorer included
• Open backups or file versions directly (file extensions are preserved) or via inbuilt explorer
• Compare file versions (using an external application)
• Restore file versions one at a time or all at once via inbuilt explorer or manually
• Run a program on each file change so you can encode, resize or do anything to the file – just use AutoVer for the change detection
• Runs discretely in the Windows System Tray & and can be 100% portable (AutoVer can be installed on removable media)
• x86/x32 (32 bit) and x64 (64 bit) support (Windows 2000 to Windows 7+)

AutoVer Info
App Name	AutoVer
License	free
Type	portable
App URL
More Info	link

Once the files are decompressed on the WobZip server, its displayed to user as shown below

Features

• Web-based means hassle-free
  Now you can unzip your files at internet cafe, at work or anywhere as long as you have access to the Internet. No longer will you be limited by the inability to install programs onto admin-protected computers.
• Uncompressing online means safer
  We scan your compressed files using an anti-virus scanner so any infected files will be removed before you download them onto your computer.
• Uncompressing online means the freedom to choose
  Our aim is to allow users to uncompress as many compressed file formats as possible. This means that you can compress your files using the compression format of your choice and send it to your friends. Tell them about WobZIP and uncompress on the fly.
• Formats supported:
  7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

Issues Faced During the Test

• Tried with tar.gz and it is not supported
• Antivirus scan was not successful, got a message – ‘An unknown error had occurred while scanning for viruses.’ (Hope that they fix it soon)

Check WobZip out.

WobZip Info
App Name	WobZip
License	free
Type	online
App URL
More Info	link

Comparison of all those are presented in a table at the end of this post.

Security Perspective: If you are an info sec guy, esp. in forensics, you can utilize the features of the these tools to identify the presence of hidden large files/archives which might possibly contain some sensitive data in it. Most of the time secret truecrypt files are hidden inside some OS folders to make it look genuine.

Note: Most of the apps mentioned here can be downloaded in a portable format. The others can be made portable using the method mentioned here

Comparison Table – here.

HDGraph

SpaceSniffer

DiskSpaceFan

WinDirStat

TreeSizeFree

SpaceMonger

OverDisk

JDiskReport

Disktective

Xinorbis

Scanner

FilePro

FolderSize

Comparison Table

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MonitorES - Turns MonitorOff/Mutes Audio When You Lock PC

Options are customizable and can be set as per our needs.

Monitor ES Options

Features

• Automatically turnoff monitor.
• Automatically pause running media programs.
• Automatically IM away status message.
• Mute master sound (XP)
• Turn on monitor for remote machines.
• Keyboard PAUSE key to pause/play running media programs(Gives single key control).
• Custom away messages for IM
• Support 16+ Media Players
• Customizable options
• Listen to your pause status
• Very small executable file (44 KB)
• No Installation Required / Portable Software

Supported Media Players

• Winamp, AIMP , WMP, WMP Classic , 1BY1 , iTunes , KMPlayer ,Media Monkey , GOM Player , AlShow, VLC Media Player (Via HTTP) , Spotify , Foobar2000, BSPlayer

• QuickTime , XMPlay Only Support with PAUSE

Supported IM

• Google Talk , Yahoo Messenger, Digsby , Miranda IM with custom away message

Download MonitorES :

This is a free portable tool and can run on almost any Windows operating systems (Pro commercial version with enhanced is also available)

Here I’ve documented few of the main features of the free version of this tool; download and experiment with 3D traceroute to get the complete picture of it.

Note: This article is targeted for the readers who have basic understanding or experience with using various networking tools.

Main Window:

To trace the route to the sever, we just have to enter the target’s URL and click on the Trace Button. The 3D Trace View is continuosly refreshed and is displayed on the main window. We have options to zoom, rotate and move around the display as per our requirement.

3D TraceRoute Main Window

Whois Details Window :

We can view the query options in the ‘Query’ navigation present in the left handside bar. Just click on the query to obtain the whois details of the server.

Whois Details Window

HTTP Spy :

One cool feature in this app is HTTP Spy which allows us to quickly obtain the details like name and version of the Server in which this target application is hosted. This is obtained by analysing the Response headers of the Request message sent by the server.

HTTP Spy Window

Email Header Analysis :

To trace down the source or details of the email message we have received we should see the raw email message and manually go through it. For example in Gmail we have an Option ‘show original’ to view the raw message. 3D TraceRoute has a email header analyzer which process the raw data and displays the IP address of the sender and whether it has been listed as Spam before.

Email Headers Analysis

Video Demo :

Features

• 3d traceroute display: multiple graphics modification options
• Statistics window: min, max, average, standard deviation and history window with destination ping time
• AS list: the usual data view with lots of features
• Long period Ping and HTTP monitor
• Whois query: everything with only one click
• Record and playback: record any trace and playback step by step
• Built-in Browser: and the browser is already built in.
• ASN inspector
• NSLookup: with UDP and TCP. And zone transfer capability.
• Day and Night trace: Admins beloved toy
• Command-line execution mode: full replacement for good old buddy tracert.
• Passive OS fingerprinting
• Portscanner (knows 3,612 well known ports)
• eMail headers Analyzer: against RBLs
• Connection viewer: TCP, IP, UDP etc. statistics
• HTTP Spy: query HTTP-headers and webpages
• Atomic Clock Sync
• Built-in TELNET client
• And lot more….

Download 3D TraceRoute :

You can even do more than starting programs with the built-in file management functions like Copy, Rename, Makedir, Delete, End Process, Kill Process and Text to Clipboard. Batchrun batch files can be launched from Explorer or placed in StartUp folder or on the Desktop.

Check how to enable and disable USB devices with batch programming

Features

• Launch files of any filetype and dialup connections
• Internal commands: Run, Copy, Rename, Makedir, Delete, DelTree, End Process, Kill Process, Text to Clipboard
• Wildcard support for Copy, Delete and DelTree
• Makedir nested folder creation
• Drag and Drop between Explorer and Batchrun
• Support for date and time tags
• Command line parameters can be passed to Batchrun script files
• Save batch files directly to Startup and Desktop

Note: If you are using the portable version of BatchRun make sure that you associate ‘*.brs‘ files with this application.

Download BatchRun :

More Info at BatchRun HomePage

Note : This is NOT a freeware and is a 30 Day trial product.

We can easily stop the USB device by left-clicking the drive to be stopped from the tray menu.

We can set various options from the main window, like hiding certain ‘always connected’ drives as shown below.

Features

• Displaying what prevent a device from being stopped
• Restarting stopped device back!
• Safe removal via individually customizable hotkeys
• Safely Remove Menu with identifiable device icons
• Real device names and ability to rename them
• Feature to hide unnecessary to stop devices
• Program autorun on device connection\disconnection
• Command line for safe removal
• Hiding of “empty” card reader drives
• Card reader memory cards ejection one-by-one

Check the full list of features here

Download USB Safe Remove :

More Info at USBSafeRemove Homepage

BumpTop released its Beta tag recently and is up and running in full- fledge.

Video Demo

BumpTop is available both in free as well as commercial versions (29$). Free versions includes many of the ‘worth to try’ features that a normal user never have to think of pro version.

Features (Free version)

• Powerful Physics Engine
• 3D Visualization
• Ability to Pile our files
• Intuitive Gestures
• Themes
• Widgets (Facebook, Twitter, email and printer)
• Zooming Photo Slideshows

Download Bumptop:

More Info at BumpTop

This tool takes a snapshot of our files and registry (current state) and will be compared with the snapshot after installing any software.This can help us finding the leftovers and completely removing them.

Features

• Portable and Free
• Tiny app (~100KB)
• Scans both files and registry for changes
• Changes can be saved in text format

TIP:

This tool can also help in understanding the installation sequences and files distributed in our system which can be reverse engineering to create portable apps.

Download WhatChanged :

More Info at WhatChanged Homepage [via PenDriveApps]

And what you do is clear the temp files or search for some less important applications which you can uninstall. But you would ultimately fail by not finding the required space. The solution is to change the working folder used by 7zip. By default the working folder will be the root drive where OS is installed.

Change the temp folder is easy, Open Options from Tools Menu and select Plugins tab, now click Options and then Folders tab. Now change the temp folder as shown below.

And commandline options for geeks, the command is

7z x _FiletoExtract_ w_WorkingDir_ o_OutputFolder_

x : Denotes extract
w : Working Folder/Temp Folder (e.g. wD:\tmp\)
o : Output Folder (e.g oD:\Files\)

For more options check here

Note: Changing tempdir is not the feature available only in 7Zip, but its mentioned here because 7Zip is the most popular archivial tools available in the market.