VLC is a media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats. It functions independently of the system codecs, so this is the tool for you if you are tired of spending hours messing around with codecs simply to play a video file your friend sent you. It can also be used as a streaming server for delivering video in unicast or multicast mode. You may also like to check out VLC Media Player Portable for a portable package of VLC that is optimized for USB memory sticks.

GnuCash is an accounting software that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses. Features include double-entry accounting, bank/liability/expense accounts, stock/bond/mutual fund accounts, small-business accounting (customers, vendors, jobs, invoices, accounts payable/receivable),QIF/OFX/HBCI import, transaction matching, scheduled transactions etc. GnuCash Portable is a portable wrapper for GnuCash.

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. It supports AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks. Pidgin Portable is a portable wrapper for Pidgin. Optional encryption plugins are available at the Pidgin Portable website for secure communication with other users.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is great for video capture and transcoding via third-party video codecs. It can also read MPEG-1 video files. VirtualDub Portable is a portable wrapper for VirtualDub.

Notepad++ is one of the few source code text editors that supports folding. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback etc.

MediaCoder is a universal audio/video batch transcoder. It supports numerous audio and video formats directly, with no dependencies on any media players, codecs or components installed on the system. It also supports device-specific profiles (mobile phone, PDA, MP4 player, PSP, VCD/DVD player), and is able to extract audio tracks from video clips.

Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen. Unlike most similar programs it does not open a separate window for the magnification but instead puts a movable magnifying glass on screen.

DivFix++ checks and repairs broken AVI files by rebuilding its index. This is very useful when trying to preview movies with missing or broken index.

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, keepalive, timeout detection, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy etc. You may also like to check out Filezilla Portable for a portable package of FileZilla that is optimized for USB memory sticks. Note that starting from V2.2.23, Filezilla no longer runs on Win9x/Me because it has been converted to use Unicode internally.

EditPad Lite is a small and compact general-purpose text editor. It allows you to open many files simultaneously, and switch between them using tabs. It also supports many functions for text manipulation and conversion.

XAMPP is an integrated server package that contains Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl etc. A smaller version called XAMPP-Lite is also available that has fewer components but takes up less disk space.

SoftMaker Office 2006 comprises of a word processor (TextMaker) and a spreadsheet (PlanMaker). TextMaker reads/writes Word documents seamlessly (Microsoft Word .doc 6.0 to 2007), and comes with a built-in database and mailmerge function. PlanMaker reads/writes your files seamlessly (Microsoft Excel .xls 5.0 to 2007) and comes with more than 320 calculation functions. It features Excel-compatible charting, conditional formatting, syntax highlighting, goal seeker, sheet/workbook protection etc.

SMPlayer is a GUI frontend for MPlayer. It is able to play most media files without any dependency on installed codecs. It is also capable of playing DVD discs and Internet media streams. Other interesting features include configurable subtitles, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, video equalizer, playlist support etc.

TerraIM is an instant messaging client that connects to the AOL Instant Messenger network. Thus, one can use TerraIM with an existing AIM, ICQ, or AOL screen name. Just log in using your AIM screen name or ICQ number with TerraIM, and your regular buddy list will show up. It adds on several useful features such as offline messaging, tabbing, aliasing, remote control and logging, but currently lacks certain features such as buddy icons and Direct IM.

Money Manager Ex is a personal finance software that helps you to organize your finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird's eye view of your financial worth.

BitComet is BitTorrent client that supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, IP filter, etc. It has full Unicode support, and requires less CPU and memory than Java or .Net -based clients.

si.Mail is a POP3 email client. It supports multiple mail accounts, HTML message view, multiple tabs, preview mail on server, automatic message classification, advanced message search, advanced pre/post download and after-send filters, RSS/ATOM feeds, and a virtual mailbox that shows messages from the last 24 hours.

Christ On Disk is a tiny application for viewing the entire King James Version of the Bible. It displays any of the 1189 chapters in the whole Bible, both Old and New Testaments.

SIW (System Information for Windows) is single-EXE wonder that gathers detailed information about your system, such as motherboard, BIOS, CPU, devices, memory, video, drivers, ports, printers etc. It is also a real-time monitor for CPU, memory, pagefile usage, network connections, network traffic etc.

MegaSplit is a high-performance file splitter/joiner that is able to process files of any type and size.

SIV (System Information Viewer) displays lots of OS, network and hardware-related information, including CPU, PCI, PCMCIA, USB, sensors etc.

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner. It pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared on a network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report if it is found open, resolve host names and auto-detect your local IP range.

OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, the handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file etc are displayed. You can also close one or more opened files, or terminate the processes that opened these files. This is particularly handy when you are trying to delete/move/open a file and Windows tells you the file is locked. Note that you need administrative rights to run this program.

Q-Dir is a quad-pane file explorer that is capable of displaying 4 Explorer panes simultaneously. It supports favorites, file/color filtering, export to XLS/CSV/TXT/HTML, screen magnifier, quick preview etc.

Floola is a standalone application to manage your iPod (iTunes 7.3 and below) or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It is a cross-platform program which runs directly from your iPod. Floola supports all most common used iPod features including podcasts, smart playlists, notifications, search lost/duplicate files, videos, HTML list export, etc. The program is also able to fix iPod if another software messed it up.

Free Download Manager (FDM) is a file download manager and accelerator. It supports the BitTorrent protocol, built-in file sharing, Flash video download from YouTube, Google Video etc., remote control via the Internet, audio/video partial file preview, site explorer etc.

DataRecovery recovers deleted files even if they have been purged from the recycle bin. You can also search for deleted files by partial string in the filename. There is a feature to wipe out deleted files. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EFS filesystems.