Over the years, you've probably accumulated a number of USB
flash drives to the point that you don't know what to do with them anymore. So
here's a tip -- you could fill one of your spare flash drives with portable
apps, which you can run directly from the disks and plug-and-play in whatever
computer you like.
Go ahead and fill up that lonely USB flash drive with these
portable apps for Windows, instead of letting it lie on your drawer and just
accumulate dust.
Portable web browsers let you surf the Web without leaving any trace of your personal information like browsing history, cookies, login sessions, etc. on the computer. Obviously, as soon as you're connected to the Internet with the portable version of Google Chrome and use your Google accounts, your data will inevitably end up in the company's vaults, but Chrome users are aware of that by now. The fact remains that it's the best browser around.
7-Zip is a free and open-source application with a high compression ratio and powerful file manager to help you extract compressed files and create your own compressed files in several different formats. It's definitely worth keeping around in your USB portable apps collection, especially when you need to do some quick compressing.
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is another free and open-source image editing tool that's packed with powerful features. It's a perfect alternative for Adobe Photoshop, considerably less resource-intensive, and contains many of the same advanced features for hardcore editing. It takes a little getting used to if you're coming from Photoshop, but it does much the same job, and it can do it portably without Adobe's massive installation process.
VLC has long since been the fastest, most robust video player around, and being portable makes it even better. Using VLC media player as a portable, you can play a vast number of video and audio formats such as MKV, alongside the standard MP4 that makes up most movies. It has just about all the video codecs you need built in, too, so there's no need to download extra ones.
CCleaner is a free Windows clean-up utility, which lets you clean such junk as redundant registry keys, cookies, and excess temporary files off your system. If you want to wipe your web browsing after you've been in an Internet cafe, for instance, then you can just pop in a USB stick with the portable version of CCleaner on it, then use it to wipe all your browsing history. You can even let it clean up the entire computer while you're at it!
LastPass is a great password manager, which lets you securely store and manage all your passwords. It garbles and encrypts your passwords and stores them online. Handily, the portable version integrates with portable web browsers like Firefox and Chrome.
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