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.
15 May 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:
20.0.1132.3 for Chrome Dev
19.0.1084.46 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 18.0.1050.1 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 & Iron should be preserved.
Results in Acid3 Test :
Chrome & Iron: 100 %
13 May 2012
Utility to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC without installation.
Download Portable GlaryUtilities Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run GlaryUtilitiesPortable.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: Albanian, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, PortugueseBR, Russian, SimpChinese, Spanish, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
If you don't want write SytemLang=false in GlaryUtilitiesPortable.ini.
Settings of installed GlaryUtilities should be preserved.
Archive manager without installation.
Download Portable WinRAR 4.20 beta (2.1 MB)
Download Portable WinRAR 4.11 (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.
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: 2.10b1 or 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.
12 May 2012
Image enlargement solution without installation.
Download Portable PhotoZoom (3.4 MB)
Extract and run PhotoZoomPortable.
Settings of installed PhotoZoom should be preserved.
11 May 2012
File manager for Windows without installation.
Download Portable TotalCommander (5.1 MB)
Download Portable TotalCommander RC 32-64 bit (8.1 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.
DVD Ripper, Video Converter, Video Recorder, Video to iPhone, Video to iPod, MP4 Converter, AVI Converter without installation.
Download Portable VideoConverterUltimate Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run VideoConverterUltimatePortable.
Settings of installed VideoConverterUltimate should be preserved.
Convert video files from mpg, avi, divX, mpg, vob, wmv, 3gp, asf, mov, rmvb and more into mp4, avi, mpeg and wmv files without installation.
Download Portable VideoConverter Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run VideoConverterPortable.
Output in portable folder, if you want to fix path: write PortableOutput=false in VideoConverterPortable.ini.
Settings of installed VideoConverter should be preserved.
All-in-one DVD ripper and video converter without installation.
Download Portable DVDConverter Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run DVDConverterPortable.
Output and Snapshot in portable folder, if you want to fix path: edit DVDConverterPortable.ini.
Settings of installed DVDConverter should be preserved.
All-Purpose Converter For Android without installation.
Download Portable DVDConvAnd Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run DVDConvAndPortable.
Output and Snapshot in portable folder, if you want to fix path: edit DVDConvAndPortable.ini.
Settings of installed DVDConvAnd should be preserved.