A portable application can be run from a removable drive (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc) on any Windows computer without installation.
You will carry the program with settings on removable drive and don't modify settings on host computer.
Below portable apps are in a simplified PortableApps standard.
Tested on Windows XP Pro SP3 and Windows 7 Integrale since 22 october 2009.
On Vista and 7 turn off User Account Control (UAC) or run launcher as admin.

More portable apps (reported to Blogger by Adobe, IDM, Malwarebytes and Techsmith) can be found here.

10 April 2011


Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera RC Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Opera Labs Online from DepositFiles (2.2 MB)
Download Portable Opera Final from DepositFiles (9.2 MB)
(md5: b457a4f7aa8f29c1fbff0a3c51918d4b)

Flash Plugin


Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 6 Update 24 from DepositFiles (18.4 MB)
(md5: d036d8d08f42a5d940ffe4fc95a7a625)

Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).

Extract and run OperaPortable.
Edit OperaPortable.ini to choose Open & Save Dir, not empty cache, not backup icons & thumbnails...
Settings of installed Opera should be preserved.

Results in Acid3 Test: 100 %

09 April 2011


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 4.0 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.6.16 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.0.19 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 2.0.0.20 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)


Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 4.0.3 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

Flash Plugin


Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 6 Update 24 from DepositFiles (18.4 MB)
(md5: d036d8d08f42a5d940ffe4fc95a7a625)

Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).

Multilingual Online will download setup in selected language (Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, SpanishInternational, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Irish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Dutch, NorwegianNynorsk, Polish, PortugueseBR, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, SimpChinese, TradChinese) and extract files.
Extract and run FirefoxPortable or PaleMoonPortable (both use the same profile).
Settings of installed Firefox should be preserved.

Multi-Users: change Profile by editing FirefoxPortable.ini or PaleMoonPortable.ini with User=NameOfNewUser
Associated to Thunderbird Portable if FirefoxPortable and ThunderbirdPortable folders are in the same folder. A click on a mailto link in FirefoxPortable open a new mail in ThunderbirdPortable.


MozillaCookiesView 1.30, MozillaHistoryView 1.25 and PasswordFox 1.25 for Firefox Portable.
Download NirSoft Firefox Viewers 3.80 from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)
Extract and run MozillaCookiesViewPortable, MozillaHistoryViewPortable or PasswordFoxPortable.

08 April 2011


Manage your digital photos without installation.
Download Portable ImageResizer Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)

Extract and run ImageResizerPortable.
You can add switches (App\ImageResizer\switches.txt) with AdditionalParameters in ImageResizerPortable.ini.
Settings of installed ImageResizer should be preserved.


Advanced freeware audio player without installation.
Download Portable foobar2000 beta from MegaUpload (2.2 MB)
Download Portable foobar2000 from MegaUpload (2.2 MB)

Extract and run foobar2000Portable.
Settings of installed foobar2000 should be preserved.

07 April 2011


Free internet calls without installation.
Download Portable Skype 5 Online from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)
On first screen enter: 5.3.0.108
Download Portable Skype 4 from MegaUpload (13.0 MB)
(md5: 4f28a6561abbae0add6ea0cfd166aa69)
Download Portable Skype 3 from RapidShare (12.2 MB)
(md5: e79812518a03fdb0d291185cf22909f7)
Clownfish Portable 1.40 extracted in SkypePortable folder.
Clownfish is an online translator for all your outgoing messages in Skype.

Extract and run SkypePortable.
Multi-Users: Edit SkypePortable.ini with User=NameOfNewUser (Default is Skype)
Don't forget to close in systray when leaving.
Settings of installed Skype should be preserved.


Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing without installation.
Download Portable SeaMonkey Beta Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable SeaMonkey Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

Flash Plugin


Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 6 Update 24 from DepositFiles (18.4 MB)
(md5: d036d8d08f42a5d940ffe4fc95a7a625)

Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).

Multilingual Online will download setup in selected language (Belarusian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, German, English, SpanishInternational, Spanish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish) and extract files.
Settings of installed SeaMonkey should be preserved.

06 April 2011


Screen recorder from Windows screen without installation.
Download Portable HyperCam 2.24.01 32-64 bit En from MegaUpload (1.0 MB)
Download Portable HyperCam 2.17.02 32 bit En-De-Fr-Hu-Pl on MediaFire (1.3 MB)

Extract and run HyperCamPortable.
Output in portable folder: if you don't want, edit HyperCamPortable.ini.
Settings of installed HyperCam should be preserved.


High-level system of e-communication messages without installation.
Download Portable TheBat Online from MegaUpload (0.1 MB)
On first screen enter: 5-0-8

Extract and run TheBatPortable.
Settings of installed TheBat should be preserved.


Google Internet browser without installation.
Download Portable Google Chrome MultiVersion Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

In first screen of Chrome MultiVersion Online, enter ver number:
12.0.725.0 for Chrome Dev
11.0.696.34 for Chrome Beta
10.0.648.204 for Chrome Stable
Chrome Online will download setup and extract files.


Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome.
Download Portable Chromium Latest Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

Chromium Latest Online will download latest build (you can run also as updater to check if you have latest) and extract files.


SRWare Iron is based on the Chromium-source and offers the same features as Chrome but without the critical points that the privacy concern.
Download Portable SRWare Iron 10.0.650.1 Online from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)

Iron Online will download setup and extract files.

Flash Plugin (not needed for Chrome)


Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 6 Update 24 from DepositFiles (18.4 MB)
(md5: d036d8d08f42a5d940ffe4fc95a7a625)

Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).

Extract and run ChromePortable or ChromiumPortable or IronPortable.
If you want to add parameters, start in incognito mode, not set cache in temp, not delete cache or allow multiple instances: edit *Portable.ini.
Example: AdditionalParameters=--app=http://portableappz.blogspot.com
Settings of installed Chrome, Chromium & Iron should be preserved.

Results in Acid3 Test :
Chrome, Chromium & Iron: 100 %

05 April 2011


Multi protocol instant messenger client without installation.
Download Portable Miranda MultiVersion Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

In first screen of Miranda MultiVersion Online, enter: 0.9.19
Miranda Online will download setup and extract files.

Extract and run MirandaPortable.
32 or 64 files selected by launcher.
For other languages download langpack and and extract langpack_*.txt in App\Miranda\ and App\Miranda64\.
Settings of installed Miranda should be preserved.