Universal Viewer Free V3.1.0

Universal Viewer Free (formally ATViewer) is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. One nice feature is that it can open large text files very quickly without eating memory. One downside is that there is no editing of these files, but useful if you have to go through large log files.




Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: MS Internet Explorer 4.0 and above

How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package for the free version and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Viewer.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Tail for Windows V1.0.27

Tail (aka Tail Live) is a tool to view your logfiles, useful, e.g., to see what the update program is doing (WindowsUpdate.log). The program tail-live reads the last 2048 bytes from a log file and displays the last line first. After 10 seconds the screen refreshes.



Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch tail-live.exe

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

DAMN NFO Viewer Portable V2.10

DAMN NFO Viewer is an utility for viewing text files containing ASCII art (eg. NFO and DIZ files). The viewer displays graphical block characters correctly, and automatically detects and displays hyperlinks/email addresses as clickable links. DAMN NFO Viewer Portable is a portable wrapper that writes settings to the application folder instead of the Windows registry.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on DAMN NFO Viewer Portable.exe

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Large Text File Viewer V4.1

Large Text File Viewer is designed for viewing large text files. It uses little memory and is able to open very large files (> 1GB) instantly. Background file indexing makes browsing even faster. It also allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression.

The latest version with Unicode support only runs on WinNT and above, but an older version without Unicode support is also available for Win9x/Me.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on LTFViewr4u.exe.

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Notepad++ V4.7.5

Notepad++ is one of the few source code text editors that supports folding. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder. It adds an "open" command to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes in the registry.

How to extract: Download the full version ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch notepad++.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, but unable to open files with Unicode filenames.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Notepad++ V4.7.5

Notepad++ is one of the few source code text editors that supports folding. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder. It adds an "open" command to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes in the registry.

How to extract: Download the full version ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch notepad++.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, but unable to open files with Unicode filenames.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP