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.
13 June 2012
Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera 32-64 Online (0.5 MB)
In first screen enter: 1200
Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable
Extract and run OperaPortable.
Edit OperaPortable.in to choose Open & Save Dir, not empty cache, not backup icons & thumbnails...
Settings of installed Opera 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: 16.0a1
Download Portable Aurora MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number:15.0a2
Download Portable Firefox MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number:14.0b7 or 13.0 or 10.0.5esr 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 : 12.2
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 : 3.6.32
PasswordFox 1.31 for Firefox Portable.
Download PasswordFox Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Extract and run PasswordFoxPortable.
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.
12 June 2012
Anonimity online without installation.
Download Portable Tor (9.1 MB)
Content: Vidalia 0.2.19, Tor 0.2.2.37 & Torbutton 1.4.6.
Extract and run TorPortable.
Installer check Pidgin, Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera & SeaMonkey Portable if found in expected folders to extract Tor launchers and settings.
When Tor enabled, run *TorPortable launchers and don't forget to exit Vidalia when closed.
Settings of installed Tor should be preserved.
Java Runtime Environment for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 1.7.0_05 Online (0.4 MB)
Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).
Open Source personal productivity suite without installation.
Download Portable LibreOffice Beta Multilingual Online (0.3 MB)
Download Portable LibreOffice Multilingual Online (0.3 MB)
English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, SpanishInternational, Estonian, Basque, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, NorwegianNynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, SimpChinese, TradChinese
Online installer will download LibO-Dev_3.6.0beta1_Win_x86_install_multi.msi or LibO_3.5.4_Win_x86_install_multi.msi
and extract files but you can also run the installer in the same location of the .msi and it will be used.
Extract and run LibreOffice*Portable.
On first run LibreOffice disable dictionnaries and close, just restart.
Settings of installed LibreOffice should be preserved.
11 June 2012
Enable superior screenshots (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable WinSnap (2.3 MB)
Extract and run WinSnapPortable.
If you don't want Screenshots in Portable folder, edit WinSnapPortable.ini.
Settings of installed WinSnap should be preserved.
Small and fast PDF Reader without installation.
Download Portable FoxitReader Multilingual Online (0.2 MB)
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, NorwegianNynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, SimpChinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, TradChinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Extract and run FoxitReaderPortable.
Settings of installed FoxitReader should be preserved.
10 June 2012
Multi protocol instant messenger client without installation.
Download Portable Miranda MultiVersion Online (0.4 MB)
In first screen of Miranda MultiVersion Online, enter: 0.9.52
Download Portable Miranda Alpha MultiVersion Online (0.4 MB)
In first screen of Miranda Alpha MultiVersion Online, enter: 0100a3
Extract and run MirandaPortable.
32 or 64 files selected by launcher.
For other languages download langpack and extract langpack_*.txt in App\Miranda\ and App\Miranda64\.
Settings of installed Miranda should be preserved.
09 June 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.
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: 2.11b1 or 2.10
If you want Modern skin, check accept on first run, click on Continue but close and restart by launcher.
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.