How to Use a USB Jump Drive Like a Super Geek with Tech Tookit 2.0 (Windows)

techHeadSo you fancy yourself the technical advisor out of your clique? Are you the person your friends and family call when anything technical is hurting their head? Maybe you just love free applications! If either or all three of these statements are true then The Tech Toolkit 2.0 is for you!

I am talking everything here. They have the best free applications for everything including anti-virus, virus/spyware removal, password recovery and even DVD burning. The magic behind this baby is that it comes with a downloader so that you can use your jump drive to launch a program. That program grabs the latest and greatest versions of a whole bunch of portable tools. With that same program (Ketarin) you can keep your applications updated as well.


Once you download the zip file from here you then extract those files to your memory stick. Then you launch the application called Ketarin.exe which you can see it below in this screenshot.

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After launching Ketarin you will get a screen that looks like this:

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You can right click on any of the items and delete it. The right click context menu looks like this:

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You add a new web application by hitting Add new application. You need either the URL or a FileHippo ID (I wrote about File Hippo here)

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Once your list is set up the way you want, click the Update Now button. These are your available options:

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I hit Check for updates and download. The program took off and grabbed all my applications. Some of them are password crackers and most antivirus programs will tag them as Trojans. They are in a way ““ they can harvest passwords but for good and not evil. But if that scares you do not download these applications! The downloads completed and my stick was ready to go.

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I opened up my memory stick and saw a launcher application. I double clicked on it and was greeted with this:

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When you expand all the categories there are a HELLAVA lot of applications here is the full list:

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Everything but the kitchen sink! From Malware Bytes to FoxIt and back over to Gspot. I can use my jump drive to do almost anything with this kit, from recovering a system to burning a CD/DVD. If you love free software, this one is for you! Every application downloaded, I totaled 270 MB of power packed tools.

What do you have on your memory stick? Share it with us in the comments!

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Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik here from AskTheAdmin.com doing a weekly guest blogging spot for our new found friends at MakeUseOf.com. I run my own consulting company, manage AskTheAdmin.com and work a full 9 to 5 job on Wall street as a System Administrator.

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  • Franck

    Nice one !

    I love USB + free apps too so i’m using Liberkey : http://www.liberkey.com/en/

  • Gavin

    Thanks that looks really useful!
    I use liberkey also & like this one too – Codyssey
    http://www.codyssey.com/apps/index.php

  • Terminator

    I use KSPF (Kitchen Sink Freeware Collection). http://kitchensinksoftware.blogspot.com/

    It includes every single useful application that is portable and strictly follows the rules given in http://www.portablefreeware.com/

    • http://kitchensinksoftware.blogspot.com/ webfork

      Actually there’s three programs, TightVNC Client and Server and WinSplit Revolution, which has not been accepted by the PFC community.

      So its about 98% compliant.

      Thanks for posting about it. :)

  • oz austin

    Also check out portableapps

  • jgh

    Ugh, Franck. Don’t use liberkey. Most of the apps in there are included illegally and they’ve stolen code from portableapps.com many times in the past and then lied about it. Who knows what other nasty things lie in their closed source crapware.

  • Joe

    I also use Cody with their apps. http://codyssey.com/products/codysafe.html

    jgh,
    Do you have any justified reason to smear this bullshit? I do not use Liberkey, but not because some morons are saying that they are bad.
    Did you ever read the source code of any open source apps? Or you trust the world “open”? Does it make you feel better?

    • Phil

      Liberkey have made mistakes in the past, no doubt about it. Also it can´t give you the same trust a closed source. I have read the source code of some open source apps, and more important, I trust the comunity of developers who check them and yes it gives more trust and transparency.

      Anyway, beside that I think Liberkey is a very good contribution to the portable world, and no, I don´t think neither their closed source is crapware.

  • Franck

    @jgh : First time i hear about that..
    Actually, what’s illegal in turning free apps into portable ?
    I like the way Liberkey apps can be updated. Much more easier than Portableapps for instance..

  • Gav

    I’ll admit I’ve heard similar stuff about Liberkey – but to be honest it is a brilliant app – the auto updater is second to none!

  • http://www.computerproblemssolvedcheap.com Richard Steven Hack

    Best way is build your own – but that does take time. I took three days to load almost 250 apps on one of my 4GB USB keys. But I’ve got a lot more than this list, including the full OpenOffice. I’ve got pretty much everything on this list, minus a few password viewers and the like, but I’ve got a lot more from my collection of over a thousand utilities.

    But this is a good way to go for people who don’t want to take the time to manually build an “all-in-one” utility key.

    Next step for me is to put UBCD4Win on a key, plus a Linux distro, plus a Linux security distro. Those, plus my “reference” key with tons of ebooks, plus my “standard installs” key, will keep me prepared for anything I run across in doing tech support.

    • Phil

      Can you share your list of apps? I have actually done quite a large research but while most of the apps that are included in the list are known, there are as well surprises. Currently I´have use as sources (besides my own searches):
      http://portableapps.com/
      http://www.portablefreeware.com/
      http://www.pendriveapps.com/

      the suites, like liberkey, lupepensuite, winpenpack, winizio
      as well as other collection like the stated above, and finally worth mentioning the techsupportalert-gizmo selection of portable apps.
      In my stick I got 200+ apps but they are strictly selected.

      PD: can you make a list with directory lister?

      Cheers

  • Ira

    A-squared FREE USB Stick version is an outstanding virus and malware scanner, designed to be run from a USB stick:

    http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/stick/

    Since the large download contains all of the updated signature files, I download afresh version frequently.

    Freeware! Contains a-squared Free and a-squared Commandline Scanner files. Unpack the zip to a USB Stick to make an easy to use scanning and removal tool.

    This file is kept always up to date with the latest program and signature files. For Windows XP, 2003/2008 Server and Vista, limited functionality on x64, 53 MB