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.

19 August 2011


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 8.0a1 latest 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 7.0b1 Multilingual 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 3.6.20 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.


Streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users without installation.
Download Portable AIDA64 Extreme from MegaUpload (12.1 MB)
(md5: 43e4310a02330b512cc1d0be887a0f71)

Extract and run AIDA64ExtremePortable.
Settings of installed AIDA64 Extreme should be preserved.


Essential Windows network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises without installation.
Download Portable AIDA64 Business from MegaUpload (11.8 MB)
(md5: 34e1ed80578c0c4c461588bd0708d6c4)

Extract and run AIDA64BusinessPortable.
Settings of installed AIDA64 Business should be preserved.

18 August 2011


Compression utility for Windows without installation.
Download Portable WinZip from MegaUpload (8.8 MB)
(md5: ad0f6a978c73d069a51bf2293e49d75f)
Utilitaire de compression pour Windows sans installation.
Téléchargez WinZip Portable de MegaUpload (8,5 Mo) (corrigé pour XP)
(md5: 30f080d2e5e7d3bf7ca4d8b506e2d806)

Extract and run WinZipPortable.
If you drag'n drop an archive on (or open with) WinZipPortable: it will be opened in WinZip.
Settings of installed WinZip should be preserved.

17 August 2011


Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 1.7.0 from MegaUpload (17.6 MB)
(md5: d4f55c8040fbeae807551ec97188d089)
Download Portable Java 1.6.0_27 from MegaUpload (18.4 MB)
(md5: 781e494cd330122736822b5e7d908999)
1.7.0 can't be used by RapidShareManager

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

16 August 2011


Media Center without installation.
Download Portable JetAudio from MegaUpload (14.8 MB)
(md5: 81076c033f21405f956655d422eb2648)

Extract and run JetAudioPortable.
Integrated in shell explorer while running.
Settings and integration of installed JetAudio should be preserved.


Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera Pre-Alpha Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Opera Final Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

Flash Plugin

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable

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 %


Organize, secure and customize your mail without installation.
Download Portable Thunderbird 6.0 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 5.0 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 3.1.11 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)

Extract and run ThunderbirdPortable.
Multilingual Online will download setup in selected language (Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Greek, English, SpanishInternational, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Irish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Dutch, NorwegianNynorsk, Polish, PortugueseBR, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, SimpChinese) and extract files.

Multi-Users: change Profile by editing ThunderbirdPortable.ini with User=NameOfNewUser
Associated to Firefox Portable if FirefoxPortable and ThunderbirdPortable folders are in the same folder. A link clicked in a mail will be opened in Firefox Portable.

Settings of installed Thunderbird should be preserved.

15 August 2011


Powerful Graphical Disk Space Manager without installation.
Download Portable TreeSize from MegaUpload (6.1 MB)
(md5: eb58f6c1f063453ee4705d7417cc1eee)

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


Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor without installation.
Download Portable Inkscape from MegaUpload (30.5 MB)
(md5: 0decb793ee57128c20477d94939da46e)

Extract and run InkscapePortable.
Settings of installed Inkscape should be preserved.


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

Flash Plugin

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable

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.