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.
17 June 2012
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: 2.10.1 or 2.11b1
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.
15 June 2012
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 13.0.1 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.
Organize, secure and customize your mail without installation.
Download Portable Daily MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number: 16.0a1
Download Portable Earlybird MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number: 15.0a2
Download Portable Thunderbird MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number: 14.0b2 or 13.0.1 or 10.0.5esr or 3.1.20
Final and Beta use same launcher and profile but Earlybird and Daily 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.
14 June 2012
Free internet calls without installation.
Download Portable Skype 5 Online (0.2 MB)
In first screen enter: 5.10.0.114
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 (0.6 MB)
In first screen enter: 280
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.
Archiving utility without installation.
Download Portable PowerArchiver 2012 Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
In first screen enter: 1300b2
Download Portable PowerArchiver 2011 Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
In first screen enter: 121203
English, Belarusian, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Russian, SimpChinese, Spanish, TradChinese, Ukrainian.
Extract and run PowerArchiverPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in PowerArchiverPortable.ini).
Settings of installed PowerArchiver should be preserved.
Archive manager without installation.
Download Portable WinRAR (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.
13 June 2012
Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera 32-64 Online (0.5 MB) fixed
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 %
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.