How to Build a USB Rescue Drive with Free Portable Utilities

vitamincm.com Build a USB first aid kit to rescue any computer www.vitamincm.com. Nourish your mind. Computer Tutorials and Guides. Christopher Masiello: Hi this is Chris Masiello from vitamincm.com and today I'm going to show you how to set up a portable applications suite on a USB Drive. So I have USB Drive plugged into my computer, it shown up as the E Drive and I downloaded some software form portableapps.com and they have tons of different applications, they have the suite which you can download and they have several other applications that are -- some included in this suite and some additional. So I downloaded all the applications I want to install right now and they're in my downloads folder, so I'm going to start by installing the suite and this would be the first would be the first thing that you would download. So just double click it, it will open up and click run. It's a pretty simple wizard that you'll walk through, the first thing it will do is make you accept the license agreement and is all open source software. Click next to install, so you need to select the USB Drive that you have plugged in like my E Drive and hit ok. Once it finishes installing you can check the launch PortableApps platform and click finish. This will open the PortableApps launcher in this bar, so you can see the applications that are installed. If you launch one of them you can just click. I wanted to launch say the Portable PDF Viewer I could just click it and would open up. The portable applications suite installed, its very easy to install other application, so if I go on my USB Drive here, it puts a little folder called documents where I can store documents just like I would on my regular hard drive and then the PortableApps folder which contains all the different location, when I click on that you'll see all the different applications that are -- its really to easy to launch another -- to install another application, so I want to install a different PDF reader here I think it's a little lighter and faster. Just click on the installer, click run, select the language and it'll ask me where I want to install it. So I want to put it in the PortableApps folder in its own folder, finishes I'll just click finish, now if I go back to the App Launcher its there install right on the tool bar. Every now and then I have to hit the X down on the bottom corner, close it and then re-launch it again. To launch it you can either unplug and replug the USB Drive or if you come out to the root of the USB Drive just double click this start PortableApps exe and that will do it. Now uninstalling software is about as easy as be, just go to the PortableApps folder and if you wanted to uninstall that piece of software just click on the folder, deleted and it and it's uninstalled, it's not like your computer, nothing writes in the registry anything like that, you just deleted right away. I'm trying to use this as the rescued drive so if I go to somebody's house that has computer that needs to get fixed I have lot of the applications I need on here to fix it, so looks like at what's on here. The applications I have on CCleaner which is a really excellent application, it will clean junk files, it will fix your browsing history, it'll clean your registry, uninstall software, just tons and tons of useful things. There is ClamWin, which is a very light antivirus program, a music player, Dial-a-fix another registry editor, FileZilla which is an FTP claim if you need to use FTP anything, GIMP which is a graphics editing program and so are the couple of browsers on here, so there is a Chrome, Portable, a CD burning application, disk fragmenting application, passwords storage, a screen shot tool, the viewer and server on here. So if I want to view somebody else's machine using VNC or if I want to let someone else view this machine, I can start the viewer or the server. Thunderbird which is an email client, if you want to use that it's a nice desktop email client, now its Portable. The entire OpenOffice suite, so its basically just clone of Microsoft Office, maybe not quite as good but it will get everything done that you need to. PC Decrapifier, when you get new computers, so a lot of times from the big manufactures they are just loaded with a bunch of trial junk that you really need to get off there. This will just take anything right off your computer and make it like a clean Windows install. A PDF building tool, Pidgin IM this is a multi protocol IM so you can use AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Google, you name it. ProduKey this is nice. If you're trying to find the product key from the CD, so lets you need to just do a clean install of Windows and you need to get the Windows activation key off the disk before you wipe it out and reinstalled that were you can activate it, this is pretty nice. PuTTY Portable this is an SFTP client. So if you need SFTP in somebody's machine. Skype you can do Skype, SpeedCrunch is a nice little calculator they has some Algebra and things in it. A spyware remover, a startup manager so you can see what things are running at startup and deactivate anything that shouldn't be. Sysinternals RootkitRevealer, so if there is a rootkit on the machine you can take it off. VLC, probably the best most flexible video player out there, it will play any kind of video under the sun. Tutorial Recorder, so it's a kind of a poor man's version software I'm using to record this tutorial right now. Click in there record your screen video and audio, and SCP Secured Connection Protocol client, so if you need SCP connections to a machine this is very secure and it works nice. WirelessKeyView. If you are having trouble connecting to a wireless network this will show you any network keys that you've used to connect in the past or may be you forgot network key and you're locked out of your router or something, this will help you find any old ones that you've used and a XAMPP which is a complete web server. So, you have web server, PHP, database server, if you wan to run something like WordPress or anything like that you could just install it right on there. So, pretty comprehensive collection, the tools that allow you to get some work done and diagnose and fixed problems on those. vitamincm.com Build a USB first aid kit to rescue any computer www.vitamincm.com Nourish your Mind. Computer Tutorials and Guides. Build a USB First aid kit to rescue any computer.