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.

14 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 4.0.5 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Refuse to start on systems with unsupported CPUs.

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.

13 April 2011


Unlock files and folders with right click without installation.
Download Portable Unlocker from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)

Extract and run UnlockerPortable.
x32 or x64 selected by launcher.
Language set by launcher according User Default Lang : Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, SerbianLatin, SimpChinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Settings of installed Unlocker should be preserved.
Right click on a locked file or folder in explorer.
x32: Don't forget to quit Unlocker (tray icon) before shutting down Windows (don't hide tray icon).
x64: Close MessageBox when used.


All-in-one DVD ripper and video converter without installation.
Download Portable DVDConverter from MegaUpload (25.1 MB)
(md5: 937c048f0b250db5926ca957ebd92a2a)

Extract and run DVDConverterPortable.
Output and Snapshot in portable folder, if you want to fix path: edit DVDConverterPortable.ini.
Settings of installed DVDConverter should be preserved.


Convert video files from mpg, avi, divX, mpg, vob, wmv, 3gp, asf, mov, rmvb and more into mp4, avi, mpeg and wmv files without installation.
Download Portable VideoConverter from MegaUpload (24.9 MB)
(md5: a5e4f719a1a4875c09b9f93e282666ca)

Extract and run VideoConverterPortable.
Output in portable folder, if you want to fix path: write PortableOutput=false in VideoConverterPortable.ini.
Settings of installed VideoConverter should be preserved.

12 April 2011


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:
12.0.733.0 for Chrome Dev
11.0.696.43 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 %


Free cross-platform media player without installation.
Download Portable VLC from MegaUpload (17.3 MB)
(md5: fbcaa8da673892a12258a38a082d5dc0)

Extract and run VLCPortable.
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) VLCPortable: it will be opened in VLC.
Settings of installed VLC should be preserved.


Optimize the performance of your computer without installation.
Portable TuneUp Utilities 2011 En-De-Fr-Es-Ru-It-Nl-Br 32-64 bit from MegaUpload (27.1 MB)
(md5: f72d862731c9b702ed65705491eef51b)
Edit TuneUpPortable.ini to change Language (en-US or de-DE or fr-FR or es-ES or ru-RU or it-IT or nl-NL or pt-BR)

Portable TuneUp Utilities 2010 Multilingual from MegaUpload (34.2 MB)
(md5: a79600cf903c89d92b420dedb5c84620)
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, PortugueseBR, Polish, Russian, Spanish

Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 English from RapidShare (14.2 MB)
(md5: 78a9f06052cff1bfef7e88f55bb8892f)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 German from RapidShare (14.1 MB)
(md5: 97dd03a74cf8eab4313d50ba4ac57709)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 French from RapidShare (14,3 Mo)
(md5: 0947412482c0350c98a2ce8f968b5064)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 Spanish from RapidShare (14.2 MB)
(md5: 940f02e6b8924be874460b108482943b)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 Italian from RapidShare (14.1 MB)
(md5: 0eaa7d139e4ae3150da1b291c318e3b2)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 Dutch from RapidShare (14.2 MB)
(md5: 1dfdffd7d932a6a6e364d7e83100e932)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 8.0.3300 Polish from RapidShare (14.2 MB)
(md5: df0cf1fece94c03557e56ebe393204ea)

Extract and run TuneUpPortable or OneClickPortable.
Settings of installed TuneUp should be preserved.


Full-Featured Browser without installation.
Download Portable Maxthon MultiVersion Online from MediaFire (0.6 MB)

In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.0.22.1700-beta or 3.0.21.1000
Maxthon Online will download setup and extract files.
Beta is only english but if you extract on a previous final you will get multilingual.

Extract and run MaxthonPortable.
Settings of installed Maxthon should be preserved.


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).


Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter without installation.
Download Portable FSViewer from MegaUpload (5.2 MB)
(md5: 68071667e9b43ba59959cda2a387679c)

Extract and run FSViewerPortable.
Settings kept in Data.
Settings of installed FSViewer should be preserved.

11 April 2011


File archiver with a high compression ratio without installation.
Download Portable 7-Zip Beta from MegaUpload (2.0 MB)
Download Portable 7-Zip Final from MegaUpload (1.9 MB)

Extract and run 7-ZipPortable.
32 or 64 bit files selected by launcher.
Drive letter of editor's path updated (if you plug USB key in another computer).
You can Add Parameters in 7-ZipPortable.ini
If you have Notepad++Portable or UltraEditPortable in the same foder as 7-ZipPortable you can choose one of them as editor (F4) by changing one (not two) false to true in 7-ZipPortable.ini.
Settings of installed 7-Zip should be preserved.