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.

21 February 2012


Free internet calls without installation.
Download Portable Skype 5 Online from RapidShare (0.2 MB)
On first screen enter: 5.8.0.156
Download Portable Skype 3.8.0.188 from RapidShare (12.2 MB)
(md5: e79812518a03fdb0d291185cf22909f7)

Extract and run SkypePortable.
Multi-Users: Edit SkypePortable.ini with User=NameOfNewUser (Default is Skype)
Don't forget to close in systray when leaving.
Settings of installed Skype should be preserved.


Online translator for all your outgoing messages in Skype without installation.
Download Portable Clownfish Online from RapidShare (0.5 MB)

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

20 February 2012


Archive manager without installation.
Download Portable WinRAR 4.10 from RapidShare (2.1 MB)

Extract and run WinRARPortable.
Exept for English, you must be connected to Internet during extraction: installer will download setup to extract language files (Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek)
Settings of installed WinRAR 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
18.0.1025.39 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 17.0.1000.0 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 %

19 February 2012


Open source software for recording and editing sounds without installation.
Download Portable Audacity RC Online from RapidShare (0.3 MB)
Download Portable Audacity Final Online from RapidShare (0.3 MB)

Extract and run AudacityPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in AudacityPortable.ini): Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Dutch, NorwegianNynorsk, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, SimpChinese, TradChinese.
Settings of installed Audacity should be preserved.

Audacity 1.2.6 is the second example of this tutorial and comes with NSIS sources.
Include LAME 3.98.2 and FFmpeg (in v1.3.7)

18 February 2012


Free cross-platform media player without installation.
Download Portable VLC from RapidShare (18.3 MB)
(md5: 7c10a59b0898b40d813a04cd4d8cb075)

Extract and run VLCPortable.
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) VLCPortable: it will be opened in VLC.
Settings of installed VLC should be preserved.


Open Source personal productivity suite without installation.
Download Portable LibreOffice from RapidShare (84.0 MB)
(md5: 0421c5189f7b2171055107ade7b5fccd)

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

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable 1.6 or 1.7


File manager for Windows without installation.
Download Portable TotalCommander Beta 32-64 bit from RapidShare (10.1 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.

17 February 2012


Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing without installation.
Download Portable SeaMonkey MultiVersion Multilingual Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number : 2.7.2 or 2.8b3

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.


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.


Organize, secure and customize your mail without installation.
Download Portable Thunderbird 13.0a1 Multilingual Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird 12.0a2 Multilingual Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)
Download Portable Thunderbird MultiVersion Multilingual Online from RapidShare (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number : 11.0b2 or 10.0.2 or 3.1.19
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Earlybird (12.0a2) and Daily (13.0a1) 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.