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.

24 November 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: 0.9.36
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.

23 November 2011


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 3 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.


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.

22 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, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing without installation.
Download Portable SeaMonkey Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)

Flash Plugin

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable

Multilingual Online will download setup in selected language (Belarusian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, German, English, SpanishInternational, Spanish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish) and extract files.
Settings of installed SeaMonkey should be preserved.


Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording without installation.
Download Portable Reaper from MegaUpload (9.3 MB)
(md5: b8bfa14ee22fb0e319a32718c3890442)

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


Archive manager without installation.
Download Portable WinRAR 4.10 beta 4 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.

21 November 2011


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 (39.6 MB)
(md5: 7cb46264aea543636858e8e20051a9d7)
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.


Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs without installation.
Download Portable CDBurnerXP Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)

Need .NET Framework 2.0 or above.
Extract and run CDBurnerXPPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in CDBurnerXPPortable.ini).
If you drag'n drop a dxp/axp file (project) on (or open with) CDBurnerXPPortable: it will be opened in CDBurnerXP.
Settings of installed CDBurnerXP should be preserved.

19 November 2011


Compression utility for Windows without installation.
Download Portable WinZip 16.0 English 32-64 bit from MegaUpload (21.0 MB)
(md5: 677e2b18efcfc921c6f7c14eb6dc1e69)
Download Portable WinZip 15.0 Multilingual from MegaUpload (11.8 MB)
(md5: f2500b05de0899b7e71797f781e4e537)

Extract and run WinZipPortable.
If you drag'n drop an archive on (or open with) WinZipPortable: it will be opened in WinZip.
Settings of installed WinZip should be preserved.