What Is On Your Utility Flash Drive?

by Jason Faulkner on Aug 11, 2009 | 11 comments

Often times I run across system utilities which I will post a tip about. Many of these utilities are portable and ideal for a flash drive because they do not require an installer and are “zero footprint”.

So for those of you who care a utility flash drive, what do you have on it?

On mine, I currently have:

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Floyd Bufkin
CCleaner, Malwarebytes, AVG 8.5, and XP Service Pack 3.
http://howto-ubuntu.com eli
Dell drivers for a few different machines, Faronics Insight, CCleaner, all the icons we use here at the library on our public access computers.
Jase
a whole lot of things I very rarely tend to use, but are handy to have on the offchance I need them.
http://none Sergio
avira free, ccleaner, cpu/gpu-z, malware bytes, process explorer, pagedefrag, portableapps suite, drivers (many), my resume and lots of useless stuff
Matt
7zip
some 12Ghosts apps (specifically the replace app which can do find/replace/regex operations across multiple files/directories)
AVG
Bulk Rename Utility
CPU-Z (a must)
CSDiff
DisplayFusion
Portable Firefox
GetDiz
GParted
Hard Link Magic
IconsExtract
InputDirector
Inssider
Junction Link Magic
Magical Jellybean Keyfinder
MPC
MyUninstaller
NetDrive
NirCmd
Notepad++
NTFSLink
Opera
PrintKey2000 (yeah it’s way old I know)
Process Explorer
PuTTY
Recuva
shexview
Smart Defrag
Synergy
TeraCopy (a must for massive file transfers)
TightVNC
UBCD4Win
UltraMon
UltraVNC
Unlocker
Virtual Clone Drive
Virtual Dimension
VirtuaWin
VistaBootPro
VLC
Wget
Windirstat
WinSCP
xxcopy
Probably some more floating around on other drives.
Matt
Dunno if I got this from PCMech or not, but anytime I need a freeware app to do something new I make a beeline for http://www.techsupportalert.com/ and almost always find what I’m looking for, or at least something that will work. Sometimes I find something even better, or come up with other ideas on how to do the task at hand.
Many of the above apps probably came from PCMech at one time or another. Hopefully something up there will be of use. My way of giving back to PCMech ;]
http://www.scopulus.co.uk scopy
Confidential files…
website back ups
copy of all programs I have ever downloaded.
Mike
I do have software installers as ccleaner, ca antispyware,tune up utilities,windows live installer,windows defender,
avg antivirus,Real player,win amp ,adobe reader,adobe photo shop,quik time,codec installer,
windows xp 25.000 codecs,vista codecs,imagesfor windows,firefox,unlocker,recuva,everest ultimate,McAfee virus scan,power dvd,nero 8,total video converter,total audio converter,etc………………….. plus a whole lot more
so I have it close to,after format and windows systems install
John P. Mackay
After reading all replies including yours and I am not sure to understand what you are saying? Let me say first to see if I am correct about this. I see that most of you save the files in Utility Flash Drive and you mean that you run your programs from the flash drive on to the computer or laptop. For example: I will run the program, CCleaner from my flash drive to check the registry in the main drive of my laptop? Is that correct. If yes, then I will have more room in my laptop hard drive. Look forward to see the answer from you about this.
Thank you,
John

Jason Faulkner
Correct, the programs can be run on the computer straight from the flash drive with no installation.

Jim Clark
I like many of the free thumbdrive applications located at the following…
portableapps.com
pendrivelinux.com and pendriveapps.com are also good.
Jim