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.

14 December 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 6 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.


Bittorrent Client without installation.
Download Portable Azureus from MegaUpload (15.2 MB)
(md5: d06773f2ef480dab77489c59576fca43)

Needs Java Runtime Environment Portable or Installed.

Extract and run AzureusPortable.
Don't forget to close in systray when leaving.
Settings of installed Azureus should be preserved.


DVD Ripper, Video Converter, Video Recorder, Video to iPhone, Video to iPod, MP4 Converter, AVI Converter without installation.
Download Portable VideoConverterUltimate from MegaUpload (25.8 MB)
(md5: d5823fd4201b238635a026d75d6e9e95)

Extract and run VideoConverterUltimatePortable.
Settings of installed VideoConverterUltimate should be preserved.


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: 0.9.38
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.

13 December 2011


Optimize Windows without installation.
Download Portable jv16PT 2012 from MegaUpload (8.1 MB)
(md5: f8fc4fbab28238ceec9a595713404618)
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.


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:
17.0.963.6 for Chrome Dev
16.0.912.63 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 15.0.900.2 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 %

11 December 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.


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.

10 December 2011


Media player without installation.
Download Portable Winamp from MegaUpload (13.4 MB)
(md5: fe6a734446d58f96190e70268fa4bd2a)

Extract and run WinampPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in WinampPortable.ini) (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Simpchinese, Tradchinese, Turkish).
Settings and playlists created in portable folder (Data\Winamp).
Settings of installed Winamp should be preserved.

09 December 2011


Find, organise and share your photos without installation.
Download Portable Picasa from MegaUpload (11.6 MB)
(md5: df73d69de5f229c6fbdcc89505a74593)

Extract and run PicasaPortable.
Settings of installed Picasa should be preserved.