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 SP1.
On Vista and 7 turn off User Account Control (UAC) or run launcher as admin.
03 May 2012
Find, organise and share your photos without installation.
Download Portable Picasa Online (0.7 MB)
Extract and run PicasaPortable.
Settings of installed Picasa should be preserved.
02 May 2012
Make your own portable applications.
Download Portable ThinApp (25.7 MB)
(md5: 7a5361049da8b96b22f6452c33fae2ea)
1 - Run Setup Capture on a clean Windows (register with keygen)
2 - Read carefully instructions
3 - Click on Next
4 - GoTo 2
Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Nightly 32-64 MultiVersion en-US Online (0.4 MB)
In first screen enter Version Number: 15.0a1
Download Portable Aurora MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number:14.0a2
Download Portable Firefox MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number: 13.0b2 or 12.0 or 10.0.4esr or 3.6.28
Results in Acid3 Test : 100 %
Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 12.x 32-64 bit Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number : 12.0
On first run, check allow Language Pack installation, click on Continue but close and restart by launcher.
Download Portable Pale Moon 3.6.x Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number : 3.6.31
PasswordFox 1.30 for Firefox Portable.
Download PasswordFox Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Extract and run PasswordFoxPortable.
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.
Advanced registry editor without installation.
Download Portable RegWorkshop (1.2 MB)
Extract and run RegWorkshopPortable.
32 or 64 bit selected by launcher.
English, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Russian, SimpChinese, TradChinese.
Settings of installed RegWorkshop should be preserved.
Open Source personal productivity suite without installation.
Download Portable LibreOffice (84.6 MB)
(md5: 4185d58791642f5fc0102965b48c098a)
Extract and run LibreOffice*Portable.
Settings of installed LibreOffice should be preserved.
Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable 1.6 or 1.7
Offline Browser without installation.
Download Portable HTTrack Online (0.4 MB)
Extract and run HTTrackPortable.
32 or 64 bit files selected by launcher.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in HTTrackPortable.ini): Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, SimpChinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Settings of installed HTTrack should be preserved.
01 May 2012
Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs without installation.
Download Portable CDBurnerXP Online (0.3 MB)
Need .NET Framework 2.0 or above.
Extract and run CDBurnerXPPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in CDBurnerXPPortable.ini).
If you drag'n drop a dxp/axp file (project) on (or open with) CDBurnerXPPortable: it will be opened in CDBurnerXP.
Settings of installed CDBurnerXP should be preserved.
Disc burning software without installation.
Download Portable BurnAware Professional Online (0.3 MB)
Download Portable BurnAware Free Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run BurnAwarePortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write in BurnAwarePortable.ini: UserDefaultLang=false and Language=english or brazilian or catalan or chinese_simp or chinese_trad or czech or dutch or french or german or hebrew or hungarian or italian or polish or russian or spanish or ukrainian).
Settings of installed BurnAware should be preserved.
30 April 2012
Google Internet browser without installation.
Download Portable Google Chrome MultiVersion Online (0.4 MB)
In first screen of Chrome MultiVersion Online, enter ver number:
20.0.1123.1 for Chrome Dev
19.0.1084.36 for Chrome Beta
18.0.1025.168 for Chrome Stable
Chrome Online will download setup 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 18.0.1050.0 Online (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 %
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing without installation.
Download Portable SeaMonkey MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number: 2.9.1
If you want Modern skin, check accept on first run, click on Continue but close and restart by launcher.
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.