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.

03 December 2011


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


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.

02 December 2011


Powerful audio player without installation.
Download Portable AIMP 3 RC from MegaUpload (5.6 MB)
(md5: 0dca0d8029bb145ca37cd950a469a98d) Download Portable AIMP 2 from MegaUpload (5.0 MB)
(md5: 3d2c27ecbd266b3a67708566e0c43d0c)

Extract and run AIMP*Portable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in AIMP3Portable.ini): Arabic, Belarusian, PortugueseBR, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, SerbianLatin, SimpChinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek..

Settings of installed AIMP should be preserved.


Advanced freeware audio player without installation.
Download Portable foobar2000 from MegaUpload (2.3 MB)
Included Monkey's Audio Decoder 2.1.5.

Extract and run foobar2000Portable.
Settings of installed foobar2000 should be preserved.


Copy Blu-ray/DVD and convert video file without installation.
Download Portable DVDFab from MegaUpload (19.0 MB)
(md5: 77a6ee68ee827ca017dee560bae7b85a)

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.


File manager for Windows without installation.
Download Portable TotalCommander Beta 32-64 bit from MegaUpload (8.0 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.


Screen captures from Windows screen, and text capture without installation.
Download Portable HyperSnap 7 En Online from MegaUpload (0.2 MB)
Download Portable HyperSnap 7 De-Fr-Ru Patch from MegaUpload (0.5 MB) (patch after each update)
Download Portable HyperSnap 6 from MegaUpload (7.5 MB)
(md5: d667324edb14f10261409911d2fee23a)

Extract and run HyperSnapPortable.
Settings of installed HyperSnap should be preserved.

01 December 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 3 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.


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 4 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.


Optimize Windows without installation.
Download Portable jv16PT 2012 from MegaUpload (8.1 MB)
(md5: eb14337c43348c991a389ebb66429dd4)
Download Portable jv16PT 2011 from MegaUpload (8.6 MB)
(md5: af12db4c71753bcac08e6a35307e9745)
Download Portable jv16PT 2010 from MegaUpload (8.3 MB)
(md5: d5d27f5390a16aa6899f9295c8ad97b0)
Download Portable jv16PT 2009 from RapidShare (5.7 MB)
(md5: e9bfd37b7e72fa391007f4e0d8b00cdc)

Extract and run jv16PTPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in jv16PTPortable.ini): Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, SimpChinese, Slovak, Swedish, TradChinese.
Settings of installed jv16PT should be preserved.