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.

12 September 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: 0.9.30
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 extract langpack_*.txt in App\Miranda\ and App\Miranda64\.
Settings of installed Miranda should be preserved.

11 September 2011


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 9.0a1 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 8.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 7.0b4 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 6.0.2 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 3.6.22 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.0.19 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Aurora (8.0a2) and Nightly (9.0a1) have their own.


Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 6.0.2 32-64 bit Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Pale Moon 3.6.22 for Athlon XP (SSE) 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.

09 September 2011


Multimedia Player (KMPlayer Reloaded) without installation.
Download Portable PotPlayer from MegaUpload (17.8 MB)
(md5: 3071828be4ded40625601a03869a713c)

Extract and run PotPlayerPortable.
Settings of installed PotPlayer should be preserved.

08 September 2011


Translate in one click without installation.
Download Portable Babylon from MegaUpload (2.4 MB)

Extract and run BabylonPortable.
Don't forget to close Babylon before leaving Windows : right-click on icon, Exit.
Not Thinstalled, so you can translate a word with choosed click of the mouse.
Interface language set by launcher with localization of Windows (English, Arabic, SimpChinese, TradChinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish).
To set language yourself, write SystemLang=false in BabylonPortable.ini.

To add dictionaries:
Download Offline Dictionary (SFX Zip exe).
Extract .BGL file with 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip (right-click on exe).
Drag'n'drop .BGL file on BabylonPortable.exe (not running).


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) (same as RC2)

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 %


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

In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.1.7.1000
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

07 September 2011


Optimize the performance of your computer without installation.
Portable TuneUp Utilities 2012 Beta En-De-Es-Fr-It-Nl-Pl-Br-Ru-Cn-Kr from MegaUpload (39.2 MB)
(md5: 42ee5ad2a1677d1943c75a162efc5ca3)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 2011 En-De-Es-Fr-It-Nl-Pl-Br-Ru-Cn-Kr from MegaUpload (34.6 MB)
(md5: 4d5419261ef1f4aa762dbbd623306b3a)
Edit TuneUpPortable.ini to change Language (en-US or de-DE or es-ES or fr-FR or it-IT or ko-KR or nl-NL or pl-PL or pt-BR or ru-RU or zh-CN)

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.

06 September 2011


Organize, secure and customize your mail without installation.
Download Portable Thunderbird 9.0a1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 8.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 7.0b2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 6.0.2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 5.0 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 3.1.14 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Earlybird (8.0a2) and Shredder (9.0a1) have their own.

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.


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.


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.