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.

15 February 2012


Synchronize and back up your data without installation.
Download Portable SuperFlexibleSynchronizer 5.x En-De Online from RapidShare (0.3 MB)
Download Portable SuperFlexibleSynchronizer 4.97 En-Fr-De-Es from RapidShare (9.9 MB)
(md5: 1daf1a0d9efa633a9d3dd2295ab8e7ea)

Extract and run SuperFlexibleSynchronizerPortable.
Letter of portable drive updated in settings.
Settings of installed SuperFlexibleSynchronizer should be preserved.


Google Internet browser without installation.
Download Portable Google Chrome MultiVersion Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)

In first screen of Chrome MultiVersion Online, enter ver number:
19.0.1041.0 for Chrome Dev
18.0.1025.33 for Chrome Beta
17.0.963.56 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 RapidShare (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 RapidShare (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 %


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

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


Flash Plugin for Firefox, Opera, Safari....
Download Flash Plugin from RapidShare (3.3 MB)

Extract in Data\Plugins (detected by installer) for Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chromium or Iron (Chrome has gcswf32.dll included), SeaMonkey, Netscape and Flock.
(included also Adobe Reader plugin 10.1.1.33 but need installed program)


HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, SSI, WML, Perl editor without installation.
WeBuilder includes all features of HTMLPad, Rapid CSS & PHP.
Download Portable WeBuilder Online from RapidShare (0.5 MB)

Extract and run WeBuilderPortable.
PHP 5.3.10 will be downloaded if you check PHP Interpreter (Preview php page)
Tools/Preview In/Portable Firefox, Netscape or Opera if found.
Settings of installed WeBuilder should be preserved.


Music Converter, CD Ripper, Audio Converter, CD/DVD Creator without installation.
Download Portable EasyCDDAExtractor from RapidShare (7.9 MB)

Extract and run EasyCDDAExtractorPortable.
Language set by launcher according SystemLang (if you don't want or for UniCode languages: write SystemLang=false in EasyCDDAExtractorPortable.ini).
Settings of installed EasyCDDAExtractor should be preserved.


Archiving utility without installation.
Download Portable PowerArchiver 2011 Multilingual Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)
In first screen enter: 1212
English, Belarusian, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Russian, SimpChinese, Spanish, TradChinese, Ukrainian.

Extract and run PowerArchiverPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in PowerArchiverPortable.ini).
Settings of installed PowerArchiver should be preserved.

14 February 2012


Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 1.7.0_03 Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Java 1.6.0_31 Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)

Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).


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

In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.3.4.3000
Portable 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

13 February 2012


File manager for Windows without installation.
Download Portable TotalCommander Beta 32-64 bit from RapidShare (8.1 MB)
Download Portable TotalCommander RC from RapidShare (5.1 MB)
Download Portable TotalCommander from RapidShare (5.1 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.