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 October 2011


Organize, secure and customize your mail without installation.
Download Portable Thunderbird 10.0a1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 9.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 8.0b2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 7.0.1 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 3.1.15 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 Multilingual Online from MediaFire (0.4 MB)
Final use same launcher and profile but Earlybird (9.0a2) and Daily (10.0a1) 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.


Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera 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 %


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 3 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.


Apple Web Browser without installation.
Download Portable Safari from MegaUpload (28.9 MB)
(md5: 8e80e414b6f2169cd36bbbdedc917823)

Flash Plugin

Extract and run SafariPortable.
If you want to backup cache: edit SafariPortable.ini
Settings of installed Safari should be preserved.

Results in Acid3 Test: 100 %

12 October 2011


Copy Blu-ray/DVD and convert video file without installation.
Download Portable DVDFab from MegaUpload (18.0 MB)
(md5: ce2e9b55ac291288c498785e1995a95f)

Options: "DVD to DVD", "DVD to Mobile", "Blu-ray to Blu-ray", "Blu-ray to Mobile", "File to Mobile" and "File Mover"
Extract and run DVDFabPortable.
Settings of installed DVDFab 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.

11 October 2011


Easily Make Your Bootable CDs and DVDs without installation.
Download Portable EasyBoot from MegaUpload (2.4 MB)

Extract and run EasyBootPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in EasyBootPortable.ini): English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish.
Folders set in EasyBootPortable folder (if you don't want: write PortableFolders=false in EasyBootPortable.ini).
Settings of installed EasyBoot should be preserved.


Handle CD and DVD Images with Ease without installation.
Download Portable UltraISO from MegaUpload (2.5 MB)

Extract and run UltraISOPortable.
Not Thinstalled: Can Mount image to Virtual Drive.
Language set by launcher according Windows localisation (if you don't want: write SystemLang=false in UltraISOPortable.ini): English, French, Bulgarian, Catalan, TradChinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Farsi, Macedonian, Portuguese.
Settings of installed UltraISO should be preserved.


Free source code editor without installation.
Download Portable Notepad++ from MegaUpload (3.3 MB)

Extract and run Notepad++Portable.
Include Explorer Plugin 1.8.2.0.
If you use as default editor (F4) in Total Commander edit Notepad++Portable.ini with AllowMultipleInstances=true.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization : Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, SimpChinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
You can change Language in Settings-Preference...Localization Menu.
Integrated in shell explorer while running.
Portable settings in Data kept on update.
Settings and integration in shell of installed Notepad++ should be preserved.

10 October 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.