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 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 3.6.28 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.


Free chat client without installation.
Included GTK 2.14.7.0
Download Portable Pidgin from MegaUpload (13.3 MB)
(md5: 0913083308bdfa0b395510766ac81811)

Extract and run PidginPortable.
Can be anonymized by Tor Portable.
Settings of installed Pidgin should be preserved.


Download accelerator and manager without installation.
Download Portable FDM RC Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)
Download Portable FDM Final Online from MegaUpload (0.3 MB)

Extract and run FDMPortable.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in FDMPortable.ini): Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
Settings of installed FDM should be preserved.

16 December 2011


Burning software without installation.
Download Portable Burning Studio 11 from MegaUpload (62.0 MB)
(md5: 28bb36f872077d1d3d359bb45f4a03cf)
Download Portable Burning Studio 11 Themes from MegaUpload (92.9 MB)
(md5: f7fc652f0a6dd3838cfca303390c13c3)


Download Portable Burning Studio 10 from MegaUpload (86.6 MB)
(md5: 03a53085c7261243339e50c11e87d6ec)


Download Portable Burning Studio 9 from RapidShare (50 MB)
(md5: 24e6f212c3a1beb540a163a41d75e5df)
Replace launcher to run on Windows 7


Download Portable BurningStudio 8 from RapidShare (39.4 MB)
(md5: a59f8a265750bd7110f2d36b20f257f5)


Download Portable BurningStudio 7 from MegaUpload (22.9 MB)
(md5: 2ed0a64457e43c4caae2250eff133b46)


Download Portable BurningStudio 6 Free from RapidShare (5.5 MB)
(md5: e66da873a821e2573250222a26a4302b)


Download Portable BurningStudio 5 from iFile.it (3.7 MB)

Extract and run BurningStudio*Portable.
Settings of installed Burning Studio should be preserved.


Find, organise and share your photos without installation.
Download Portable Picasa Online from MegaUpload (0.7 MB)

Extract and run PicasaPortable.
Settings of installed Picasa 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.


Burn CD and DVD without installation.
Download Portable Nero 11.0.24.100 from MegaUpload (26.8 MB)
(md5: 6884bfb684aad0677975eca1b9998320)
Download Portable Nero 10.6.3.100 from MegaUpload (21.3 MB)
(md5: 72fbbd391880b9e25365b62288c3d527)

Extract and run Nero*Portable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in NeroPortable.ini): Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, SpanishInternational, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, PortugueseBR, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, SimpChinese, TradChinese.
Settings of installed Nero should be preserved.

15 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 5 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.


Multimedia Player (KMPlayer Reloaded) without installation.
Download Portable PotPlayer from MegaUpload (19.1 MB)
(md5: 662d39b7199a1cb70a759bc7e07ec31a)

Extract and run PotPlayerPortable.
Settings of installed PotPlayer should be preserved.


Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera Alpha 32-64 bit 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 %