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Windows only: Free application Disable Startup keeps just any old app from adding itself to your list of startup applications, keeping your boot time snappy and RAM happy.

Windows only: Porta'Menu is a tiny (175k!) application launcher for your portable drives. It is extremely spartan, but effective.

Windows only: A small background app can give XP and Vista users part of the functionality of "Aero Peek," a smart way of previewing windows and showing the desktop in Windows 7.

Windows only: Productivity Meter is a time tracking tool from Fruitful Time, makers of the task manager we reviewed earlier this year.

Windows only: We've already highlighted the best free video conversion tools, but if you want to both edit and convert a video, those apps aren't up to it. That's where Free Video Converter comes in. Free Video Converter lets you choose sections of any video and join or split clips so that once you're ready to export or convert the video, you get final say on what you see.

Windows only: MoboPhoto is a portable photo suite. The stand alone 1.6MB executable has a basic photo editor, gallery builder, and a batch tool for mass resizing and renaming.

Windows only: Ketarin is a great thing for any traveling tech support worker, as it can easily keep a folder or USB drive full of installation packages up to date.

Windows only: Greenshot is a lightweight, open source, and portable screen-capture tool.

Windows only: Index.dat Suite is an index file editor that allows you to selectively edit or completely erase the contents of index.dat files on your computer.