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.

06 December 2011


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

05 December 2011


Device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable DriverMagician from MegaUpload (3.9 MB)

Extract and run DriverMagicianPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in DriverMagicianPortable.ini): Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian.
Driver DataBase unblacklisted after an update.
Settings of installed DriverMagician should be preserved.
If you backup drivers to an auto-setup package, you will have to enter Registration (GiveAwayOfTheDay/A9L64dFfE1-8854F) to restore.


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 (39.9 MB)
(md5: 2e2ac8695041788c9e28c90103914dec)
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.

04 December 2011


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.


Alternative to Microsoft Office without installation.
Download Portable SoftMaker Office from MegaUpload (20.8 MB)
(md5: dbce63080bd29b5a77733c8ef4123006)

Extract and run *Portable.
Settings of installed SoftMaker Office should be preserved.

03 December 2011


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.