Portable Apps - Your Favorite Apps On The Go

If you want to take your favorite applications with you then PortableApps.com is the best software for you to do so. It is completely free and works on any portable storage device so to speak. It is a very lightweight (6MB installed), handy tool to use and has a support of almost all the usual open source software and some compatible freewares.Simply, make every PC feel like your own.

IrfanView - Lightweight, Compact and Innovative Graphic Viewer For Windows

Many of you may already have heard of IrfanView and also used it. It is a freeware/shareware Graphic Viewer for Windows. It is known for the ability to handle a large variety of graphic file formats with some image creation capabilities. It works under Windows and can also be run in Linux under Wine. 

The program is compact and just occupies 2 MB(approx.), and with all plugins installed occupies about 10 MB(approx.). IrfanView can create icons, screensaver and do many more such operations such as image editing. Batch processing is one of the most important operations included in IrfanView. The program is also available in more than 20 languages.

The IrfanView team quotes it's program as:
"It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals."

Official Website: http://www.irfanview.com/ 

VirtualDub - Opensource Video Capture/Processing Utility for Windows

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platform. It is a very useful, powerful and lightweight utility for processing linear video streams, including filtering and re-compression. This tool is very useful to compress large videos and also for quick capture and encoding. Different plugin filters further extend VirtualDub's capabilities. 

Top 5 Softwares Under 2MB (Must Have)

Here are some of the best and free applications available under 2MB for Windows:

• uTorrent
: Fast, simple and very easy to use Bit Torrent client. It supports UPnP, automatically adjusts the bandwidth usage based on network activity.

• Everything: Is Windows built-in indexed search fast enough?  Think Again! Because Everything(from Void Tools) is an ultra-light weighted indexed search application that makes looking for files extremely fast.