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 and Techsmith) can be found here.

13 August 2011


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 8.0a1 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 7.0a2 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 6.0 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 5.0.1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 4.0.1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.6.19 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.0.19 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)


Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 5.0 32-64 bit Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Pale Moon 3.6.18 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Refuse to start on systems with unsupported CPUs.

Flash Plugin

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable

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 1.36, MozillaHistoryView 1.40 and PasswordFox 1.30 for Firefox Portable.
Download NirSoft Firefox Viewers 4.06 from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)
Extract and run MozillaCookiesViewPortable, MozillaHistoryViewPortable or PasswordFoxPortable.


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 (27.5 MB)
(md5: c198b82c34f996e04b323acb43bd96e5)
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.

12 August 2011


Powerful Graphical Disk Space Manager without installation.
Download Portable TreeSize from MegaUpload (6.1 MB)
(md5: 3200140f8de7e5d5582acb47fad9f7f4)

Extract and run TreeSizePortable.
Settings of installed TreeSize should be preserved.


Screen captures from Windows screen, and text capture without installation.
Download Portable HyperSnap 7 Online from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)
Download Portable HyperSnap 6 from MegaUpload (7.5 MB)
(md5: ea1bad47005db901ac85b40f0ffe0716)

Extract and run HyperSnapPortable.
English, German, French, Hungarian, Polish, Russian (no russian help).
Settings of installed HyperSnap should be preserved.


Utility to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC without installation.
Download Portable GlaryUtilities Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)

Extract and run GlaryUtilitiesPortable.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: Albanian, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, PortugueseBR, Russian, SimpChinese, Spanish, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
If you don't want write SytemLang=false in GlaryUtilitiesPortable.ini.
Settings of installed GlaryUtilities 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:
15.0.849.0 for Chrome Dev
14.0.835.35 for Chrome Beta
13.0.782.112 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 13.0.800.0 Online from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)

Iron Online will download setup and extract files.

Flash Plugin (not needed for Chrome)

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable

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 %

11 August 2011


Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs without installation.
Download Portable CDBurnerXP Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)

Need .NET Framework 2.0 or above.
Extract and run CDBurnerXPPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in CDBurnerXPPortable.ini).
If you drag'n drop a dxp/axp file (project) on (or open with) CDBurnerXPPortable: it will be opened in CDBurnerXP.
Settings of installed CDBurnerXP should be preserved.


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.


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

In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.1.5.1000
Maxthon Online will download setup and extract files.

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

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable


DJ mixing software for professional and semi-pro DJs without installation.
Download Portable VirtualDJ from MegaUpload (23.0 MB)
(md5: 58b655f047941d96d24dabc8a9e6f136)

Extract and run VirtualDJPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in VirtualDJPortable.ini).
Settings of installed VirtualDJ should be preserved.