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.

23 December 2011


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.


Alternative to Microsoft Office without installation.
Download Portable SoftMaker Office from MegaUpload (21.1 MB)
(md5: 2a22fe6d1660185ceaa1baf9e44d4ba5)

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

22 December 2011


Destroying malware, one byte at a time without installation.
Download Portable Malwarebytes Beta from MegaUpload (9.3 MB)
(md5: 82107014e6370d6b45aa988230d1e07b)
Download Portable Malwarebytes from MegaUpload (9.3 MB)
(md5: b91b61e8f14fa1f542d79fe43dfcb629)

Extract and run MalwarebytesPortable.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: English, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, SimpChinese, TradChinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Settings of installed Malwarebytes should be preserved.


Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Firefox 12.0a1 32-64 en-US Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 11.0a2 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 9.0.1 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Firefox 3.6.25 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Aurora (11.0a2) and Nightly (12.0a1) 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.


Full-Featured Browser without installation.
Download Portable Maxthon MultiVersion Online from MegaUpload (0.6 MB)

In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.3.2.1000
Maxthon Online will download setup and extract files.

Extract and run MaxthonPortable.
Settings of installed Maxthon should be preserved.

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable


Save a part or whole web site to drive without installation.
Download Portable OfflineExplorer from MegaUpload (12.1 MB)
(md5: da211982be4ba9ec3037cc70f2126a2b)

Extract and run OfflineExplorerPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in OfflineExplorerPortable.ini): ar, cz, da, de, du, en, fr, hr, hu, id, it, pl, pt, ptbr, ro, ru, sk, sp, srb, src, tr, ua, zhcn, zhtc.
Settings of installed OfflineExplorer should be preserved.

21 December 2011


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:
17.0.963.12 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 16.0.950.0 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 %


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: 0.9.39
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.


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 Multilingual Online from MegaUpload (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 3.1.17 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 without installation.
Download Portable KMPlayer MultiVersion Online from MegaUpload (0.6 MB)
Download Skins for Portable KMPlayer from MegaUpload (2.4 MB)

In first screen of KMPlayer MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.1.0.0_R2
KMPlayer Online will download setup and extract files.

Extract and run KMPlayerPortable.
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) KMPlayerPortable: it will be opened in KMPlayer.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, PortugueseBR, Bulgarian, TradChinese, SimpChinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
If you don't want, write SystemLang=false in KMPlayerPortable.ini.
Capture in portable folder. If you don't want, write PortableCapture=false in KMPlayerPortable.ini.
Settings of installed KMPlayer should be preserved.