Hey guys,you all have done a great job here with portable apps 
Have a little request for one app.
Would like to see an app like "EncryptStick software converts YOUR USB flash drive into your personal vault" The reason is I've try many and most all require Admin rights to install or run off thumb drive and this one looks like it has great encryption but not worth 40 bucks!! No admin rights for this one is required...
When i get to work with any other encryption on thumb drive i can't open due to admin rights..
Thanks
Harryman099 
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I use PenProtect, there is a free demo :
www.penprotect.com
and cost around $ 20
the penprotect?
I have spent those 20$ , just being curious how it works.
Well it works somehow, I could have used the 7zip or similar too.
It is simple encryption software. Encryption of about 1G of data takes some 30min, it is copied to ram and swap during the operation and then original data removed and encrypted text moved back to the stick. This goes automatically however.
The decryption process does the same the opposite way.
And it is faster. Decryption of 1G took some 22min only.
That means with my daily used stick, with some 13G data on it, I can come to office, start the decryption and sometimes afternoon I can already use it. Nice.
Problems are with number of programs, it claims that the path is too long and it can not encrypt them.
I would not use it on daily use stick without proper backup first!
6 encrypt/decrypt tests, 2 times so far I was able to encrypt all, but during decryption some errors were presented, as 'file is open' etc, and the decryption failed therefore and only thing left was formating the stick.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Um, TrueCrypt?
There is a fair amount of reason behind the "Requires Admin rights", and I personally wouldn't trust a computer that I don't have admin rights on.
I believe TrueCrypt will run without admin rights, if you create a "vault file", instead of trying to encrypt the whole disk.
With TrueCrupt, no admin = no apps. If you can't mount it as a drive letter (or directory) you can't run apps off it. And you can't do that without admin.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
You can mount it as a drive letter, even without admin rights. Let me double check it, but it's how I run PA (Inside of an encrypted file blob).
Mounting a virtual drive as a drive letter requires admin rights in Windows (or admin rights to first install something that permits non-admins to do so). Always has. Likely always will.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
By jove, I just checked, and sure enough, it doesn't work... Amazed at how many PC's I've sat at where I'm an admin