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.

05 November 2011


Free source code editor without installation.
Download Portable Notepad++ from MegaUpload (3.4 MB)

Extract and run Notepad++Portable.
Included Plugin: Explorer 1.8.2, Compare 1.5.6, Light Explorer 2.0 & Lorem Ipsum 1.0.
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.

04 November 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.


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


Advanced freeware audio player without installation.
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.


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.


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 8.0 Beta 5 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.


Optimize the performance of your computer without installation.
Portable TuneUp Utilities 2012 En-De-Es-Fr-It-Nl-Pl-Br-Ru-Cn-Kr from MegaUpload (39.3 MB)
(md5: 42e669e3866fbd402f882c0601ee08e1)
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.


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:
17.0.928.0 for Chrome Dev
16.0.912.21 for Chrome Beta
15.0.874.106 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 %


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.

02 November 2011


Utility to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC without installation.
Download Portable GlaryUtilities Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)

Extract and run GlaryUtilitiesPortable.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: Albanian, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, PortugueseBR, Russian, SimpChinese, Spanish, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
If you don't want write SytemLang=false in GlaryUtilitiesPortable.ini.
Settings of installed GlaryUtilities should be preserved.