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.

07 October 2011


Image enlargement solution without installation.
Download Portable PhotoZoom from MegaUpload (3.3 MB)

Extract and run PhotoZoomPortable.
Settings of installed PhotoZoom should be preserved.


Optimize the performance of your computer without installation.
Portable TuneUp Utilities 2012 RC En-De-Es-Fr-It-Nl-Pl-Br-Ru-Cn-Kr from MegaUpload (39.1 MB)
(md5: c7ffe9308d6ceada6b78b9218223c02f)
Portable TuneUp Utilities 2011 En-De-Es-Fr-It-Nl-Pl-Br-Ru-Cn-Kr from MegaUpload (34.7 MB)
(md5: ec04de56f441d091794941de9e5fb6b1)
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.


File manager for Windows without installation.
Download Portable TotalCommander Beta 32-64 bit from MegaUpload (7.9 MB)
Download Portable TotalCommander from MegaUpload (3.0 MB)

Extract and run TotalCommanderPortable.
Added: RAR Packer, Total7zip & DiskDirExtended PackerPlugins, FileInfo & anytag ListerPlugins.
Plugins are 32 bit, to use on 64 bit systems write Force32=true in TotalCommanderPortable.ini.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in TotalCommanderPortable.ini): English, SimpChinese, Czech, Danish, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish.
Settings of installed TotalCommander should be preserved.

If you need to run several instances change AllowMultipleInstances from false to true in TotalCommanderPortable.ini.
If you have Notepad++Portable or UltraEditPortable in the same foder as TotalCommanderPortable you can choose one of them as default editor (F4) by changing one (not two) false to true in TotalCommanderPortable.ini.


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 %


Archive manager without installation.
Download Portable WinRAR 4.10 beta 1 from MegaUpload (2.1 MB)
Download Portable WinRAR 4.01 from MegaUpload (2.1 MB)

Extract and run WinRARPortable.
Exept for English, you must be connected to Internet during extraction: installer will download setup to extract language files (Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek)
Settings of installed WinRAR should be preserved.

06 October 2011


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 10.0a1 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 9.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 8.0 Beta 2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 7.0.1 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 3.6.23 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 (9.0a2) and Nightly (10.0a1) have their own.
Results in Acid3 Test : 100 %


Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 7.0 32-64 bit Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Pale Moon 3.6.24 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

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.


High-level system of e-communication messages without installation.
Download Portable TheBat Online from MegaUpload (0.1 MB)
On first screen enter: 5-0-24

Extract and run TheBatPortable.
Settings of installed TheBat should be preserved.


A fast file manager with many special features without installation.
Download Portable SpeedCommander from MegaUpload (14.3 MB)
(md5: bcad13268731b5491546af97eeac116e)

Extract and run SpeedCommanderPortable.
Settings of installed SpeedCommander should be preserved.


Flash Plugin for Firefox, Opera, Safari....
Download Flash Plugin from MegaUpload (3.3 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 10.1.1.33 but need installed program)


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:
16.0.899.0 for Chrome Dev
15.0.874.83 for Chrome Beta
14.0.835.202 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 14.0.850.0 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 %