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.

17 November 2011


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 %


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 11.0a1 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 10.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 9.0 Beta 2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 8.0.1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.6.24 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Aurora (10.0a2) and Nightly (11.0a1) have their own.
Results in Acid3 Test : 100 %


Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 8.0 32-64 bit Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Pale Moon 3.6.26 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 have their own 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.


Make your own portable applications.
Download Portable ThinApp from MegaUpload (25.6 MB)
(md5: 829e3336a96a4ba29eb6bcd2e53e2d08)

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


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

In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.2.2.1000
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


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:
17.0.938.0 for Chrome Dev
16.0.912.36 for Chrome Beta
15.0.874.121 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 15.0.900.1 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 %

16 November 2011


Organize, secure and customize your mail without installation.
Download Portable Thunderbird 11.0a1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 10.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 9.0 Beta 1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 8.0 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 3.1.16 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Earlybird (10.0a2) and Daily (11.0a1) 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.

15 November 2011


Free graphic and photo viewer without installation.
Download Portable XnView Full from MegaUpload (10.8 MB)
(md5: dd1ba997125498685b2ada53471b6e91)
Download Portable XnView Standard from MegaUpload (3.9 MB) (link fixed)

Extract and run XnViewPortable.
Copy Adobe Photoshop Plugins (*.8bf) in Data\8bf

Edit XnViewPortable.ini to fix Cache:
Cache=Disabled Default
Cache=Temp Cache set in Windows Temp folder deleted when leaving
Cache=Portable Cache set in Data\Cache

If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) XnViewPortable: it will be opened in XnView.
Integrated in shell explorer while running: right click on a picture to show thumbnail, convert, send to ImageShack...
Settings and integration of installed XnView should be preserved.


Free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word without installation.
Download Portable AbiWord Dev from MegaUpload (7.7 MB)
(md5: 79ff8c421523de1daf02e50caae86055)
Download Portable AbiWord from RapidShare (6.4 MB)
(md5: 5d9a37ec111c98ce9297b2046f970907)

Extract and run AbiWordPortable.
Only en-US dictionary for spell checking, download for your language, open with 7-Zip and extract *.hash file in App\AbiWord\dictionary\ispell\.
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) AbiWordPortable: it will be opened in AbiWord.
Settings of installed AbiWord should be preserved.

13 November 2011


Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording without installation.
Download Portable Reaper from MegaUpload (9.3 MB)
(md5: 4bd8c72dc27b8f14c4ef6392778d07aa)

Extract and run ReaperPortable.
Settings of installed Reaper should be preserved.


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.