HamMultiPlayer is an interesting media player with some unusual features, including the ability to preview and work with multiple videos simultaneously.
The program doesn’t require any installation, and it doesn’t even arrive in an archive. It’s …

BPing is a tiny console-based ping tool with an unusual extra: sound.
Why? It gives you instant feedback on what’s happening without any need to watch the console window.

NirSoft has released NetworkUsageView, a handy portable program which displays some of the applications that have been using your network over the past few hours, days or weeks.
Details available include the app name, description, the …

MiniTool ShadowMaker Beta is a versatile tool for creating and managing backup images of all your storage devices.
The program supports full, incremental and differential backups of both local drives and other systems on your network.

Save emails to PDF is a Chrome extension which enables saving any Gmail email to PDF in a couple of clicks.
Download options include saving individual emails to separate PDFs, merging all selected PDFs into one …

QuickDiag is a portable tool which creates an in-depth and highly technical report on your Windows setup, running processes and installed applications.
It’s not for beginners, but if you’re looking for a quick way to collect …

QuickViewer is a portable open-source image viewer which shows and navigates pictures with the maximum possible speed.
The developer has built in multiple optimisations, including reading images before they’re required and displaying them with OpenGL.

Atomiccleaner3 is a powerful and comprehensive tool for cleaning junk files, browser histories and assorted other leftovers from your hard drive.
Reviewing this kind of app is usually very easy. Check to see if it gets …

AES Protect is a portable tool for encrypting single files using a passphrase and AES.
The program is written in x86 assembly language, which means there are no annoying dependencies, and the download is tiny: it’s …

WPD is a freeware tool for exploring, understanding and tweaking Windows 10 privacy settings.
We’ve seen many of these – we’ll bet you have, too – but the program does have some unusual extras which help …

Thumbico is a combination of an icon extraction and viewing tool, with a thumbnail viewer and creator.
The program is tiny, a 28KB download, and unsurprisingly there’s no installation required– just unzip and run Thumbico.exe.