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.

26 August 2011


Make your own portable applications.
Download Portable ThinApp from MegaUpload (25.5 MB)
(md5: 5ae7cccf6169eacd47546000fa9b267a)

1 - Run Setup Capture on a clean Windows (register with keygen)
2 - Read carefully instructions
3 - Click on Next
4 - GoTo 2


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


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 8.0a1 latest 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 7.0b2 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 6.0 32-64 bit Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Pale Moon 3.6.20-AthlonXP Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
3.6.20-AthlonXP is for 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.

25 August 2011


Music Converter, CD Ripper, Audio Converter, CD/DVD Creator without installation.
Download Portable EasyCDDAExtractor from MegaUpload (5.0 MB)

Extract and run EasyCDDAExtractorPortable.
Language set by launcher according SystemLang (if you don't want or for UniCode languages: write SystemLang=false in EasyCDDAExtractorPortable.ini).
Settings of installed EasyCDDAExtractor 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)
Included Monkey's Audio Decoder 2.1.5.

Extract and run foobar2000Portable.
Settings of installed foobar2000 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: 3.1.6.1000
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


Flash Plugin for Firefox, Opera, Safari....
Download Flash Plugin from MegaUpload (2.7 MB)

Extract in Data\Plugins (detected by installer) for Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chromium or Iron (Chrome has gcswf32.dll included), SeaMonkey, Netscape and Flock.
(included also Adobe Reader plugin 10.1.0.534 but need installed program)

23 August 2011


Synchronize and back up your data without installation.
Download Portable SuperFlexibleSynchronizer 5.x En-De Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)
Download Portable SuperFlexibleSynchronizer 4.97 En-Fr-De-Es from MegaUpload (9.9 MB)
(md5: 1daf1a0d9efa633a9d3dd2295ab8e7ea)

Extract and run SuperFlexibleSynchronizerPortable.
Letter of portable drive updated in settings.
Settings of installed SuperFlexibleSynchronizer should be preserved.


Create icons for Windows, MacOS, Unix without installation.
Download Portable IconWorkshop from MegaUpload (6.5 MB)
(md5: a1fb94289636736222772bc664425675)

Extract and run IconWorkshopPortable.
Settings of installed IconWorkshop should be preserved.


Free internet calls without installation.
Download Portable Skype 5 Online from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)
On first screen enter: 5.5.0.114
Download Portable Skype 4 from MegaUpload (13.0 MB)
(md5: 4f28a6561abbae0add6ea0cfd166aa69)
Download Portable Skype 3 from RapidShare (12.2 MB)
(md5: e79812518a03fdb0d291185cf22909f7)
Clownfish Portable 2.00 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.