Portable CD Offline

Portable CD Offline is a software tool that can be used in order to help you browse the contents of your CDs, without actually having to insert them each time, by indexing them.

Advantages of portability

This is the portable version of CD Offline and therefore, the installation process is not a must. You can copy the program files to any location on the hard drive, and double-click the executable in order to run it. Moreover, by placing the aforementioned files on an external data device, such as a pen drive, you can use the utility on any machine you have been granted access to.
Another noteworthy aspect is that the Windows registry is not going to suffer any kind of changes due to Portable CD Offline’s presence on the hard drive, and after its removal, no leftovers will remain.

Outdated, yet intuitive interface

The UI you come face to face with presents quite an outdated design, yet it happens to be neatly organized. It includes a menu bar, several buttons and a few panels to help you view a folder structure, archives and all containing items. It is easily accessible to all types of users, including those with little or no previous experience with computers.

Multiple options to tinker with

Archives can be created by providing source directory and information such as name, medium, type, owner and description. All created entries can be exported to the hard drive in an HTML or CD format.
A search function can be used, the language can be changed and the view is subject to change. From the settings panel you can adjust the color of almost all available options, use system associated icons, enable dragging and dropping between windows, and save settings to an INI file.

Conclusion

To wrap up, we can safely say Portable CD Offline is a pretty handy piece of software which facilitates offline browsing of CD contents. All jobs are performed swiftly and CPU and memory usage remains at a low level. However, it has not been updated in quite a while.