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Nirsoft is a well known collection of portable applications for Windows. There are hundreds of different utilities developed, like password recovery utilities, network monitoring tools, web browser tools, Internet related utilities or programmers tools.

A nice tool that allows you to easily find and run the desired utility is NirLauncher developed by Nirsoft.  This portable program is a front-end that collects Nirsoft tools divided by categories, like Password Recovery Tools, Network Tools, Web Browser Tools, etc.  NirLauncher has a size of 16 MB unpacked and can be stored in your USB drive.

NirLauncher Features

• NirLauncher can be used from USB flash drive without need of any installation.
• NirLauncher and all the utilities in the package are completely freeware, without any Spyware/Adware/Malware.
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MyUninstaller tool is helpful to find the correct uninstall string for whatever installed software application.

This portable tool shows a list of all installed application with a lot of details and additional information that the standard Add/Remove applet doesn't display: product name, company, version, uninstall string, installation folder, etc.

Other interesting feature is the export function that allows to save all information into a text file or HTML file, this can be really helpful in case of you will have to re-install manually you current software after a PC migration.

System Requirements: Any version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 98 to Windows 7

Link :     MyUninstaller

DriverBackup is a nice small free tool for easily backup and restore your system drivers. The basic commands are easy, select All, OEM or Third part drivers and start the backup. Restoration process is quick and safe, just run the tool and restore all drivers or just some of them.There are some interesting features like multilanguage GUI (English, Italian, German, French, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese), run backup / restore task from command line or script, support to MS Windows OS starting from 95 to 7 ( 32 / 64bit ).

Helpful tool for any pc disaster recovery and other maintenance drivers tasks, see also other portable tools: USB Swiss Army Knife : Portable tool to Detect and Repair Stalled Print Jobs  ,...

Disk2vhd is a Microsoft Sysinternal tool that allows to convert in few steps a physical machine in a virtual machine. This small utility, only 811 KB, doesn’t require any installation and can be executed from a USB memory key.

Description:
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local...