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.
10 May 2012
Enable superior screenshots (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable WinSnap (2.2 MB)
Extract and run WinSnapPortable.
If you don't want Screenshots in Portable folder, edit WinSnapPortable.ini.
Settings of installed WinSnap should be preserved.
Full-Featured Browser without installation.
Download Portable Maxthon MultiVersion Online (0.6 MB)
In first screen of Maxthon MultiVersion Online, enter: 3.3.8.1000
Portable Maxthon Online will download setup and extract files.
Extract and run MaxthonPortable.
Settings of installed Maxthon should be preserved.
Apple Web Browser without installation.
Download Portable Safari Online (0.4 MB)
Extract and run SafariPortable.
If you want to backup cache: edit SafariPortable.ini
Settings of installed Safari should be preserved.
Results in Acid3 Test: 100 %
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: 13.0b3 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.
Burn CD and DVD without installation.
Download Portable Nero 11.2.4.100 (26.5 MB)
(md5: 0d34eca4f45e6ce55030664a517f471b)
Download Portable Nero 11.0.24.100 (26.8 MB)
(md5: 6884bfb684aad0677975eca1b9998320)
Download Portable Nero 10.6.3.100 (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.
Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera Final Online (0.5 MB)
In first screen enter: 1164
Download Portable Opera Beta 32-64 Online (0.5 MB)
In first screen enter: 1200b1
Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable
Extract and run OperaPortable or OperaNextPortable.
Edit OperaPortable.ini or OperaNextPortable.ini to choose Open & Save Dir, not empty cache, not backup icons & thumbnails...
Opera and Opera Next have their own profile.
Settings of installed Opera should be preserved.
Results in Acid3 Test: 100 %
09 May 2012
GNU Image Manipulation Program without installation.
Download Portable GIMP 32-64 bit Multilingual Online (0.6 MB)
Extract and run GIMPPortable.
Copy additional fonts in Data\GIMP\fonts
To change language, add GIMPLanguage=(one of the subfolders names in \App\GIMP\share\locale) in GIMPPortable.ini
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) GIMPPortable: it will be opened in GIMP.
Settings of installed GIMP should be preserved.
Download Social Music, Video & More… without installation.
Download Portable Orbit Downloader Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run OrbitDownloaderPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in OrbitDownloaderPortable.ini): afr, ara, bgr, cat, chs, cht, csy, deu, ell, eng, esn, far, fin, fra, heb, hun, ind, ita, jpn, kor, mki, nld, nor, plk, ptb, ptg, rom, rus, sky, sqi, srb, swe, tha, trk, ukr, vit..
Downloads in portable folder (if you don't want: write PortableDownloads=false in OrbitDownloaderPortable.ini).
Settings of installed OrbitDownloader should be preserved.
Handle CD and DVD Images with Ease without installation.
Download Portable UltraISO (2.5 MB)
Extract and run UltraISOPortable.
Not Thinstalled: Can Mount image to Virtual Drive.
Language set by launcher according Windows localisation (if you don't want: write SystemLang=false in UltraISOPortable.ini): English, French, Bulgarian, Catalan, TradChinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Farsi, Macedonian, Portuguese.
Settings of installed UltraISO should be preserved.
08 May 2012
Free chat client without installation.
Included GTK 2.14.7.0
Download Portable Pidgin (13.3 MB)
Extract and run PidginPortable.
Can be anonymized by Tor Portable.
Settings of installed Pidgin should be preserved.