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.
24 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:14.0b9 or 13.0.1 or 10.0.5esr or 3.6.28
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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 : 12.2.1
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.
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.
Open source software for recording and editing sounds without installation.
Download Portable Audacity Final Online (0.3 MB)
In first screen enter Version Number:unicode-2.0.1.rc1 or 2.0
Extract and run AudacityPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in AudacityPortable.ini): Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Dutch, NorwegianNynorsk, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, SimpChinese, TradChinese.
Settings of installed Audacity should be preserved.
23 June 2012
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_3.6.0.0.beta2_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.
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.
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 2.11b3
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.
22 June 2012
Complete image retouching program without installation.
Download Portable PhotoFiltre Studio MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter: 10.6.1
Languages of installer: English, French, Belarussian, PortugueseBR, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, SimpChinese, TradChinese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian,
Extract and run PhotoFiltreStudioPortable.
Not registered but unlimited trial (always 30 days remaining), if not: just close and restart.
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) PhotoFiltreStudioPortable: it will be opened in PhotoFiltreStudio.
Settings of installed PhotoFiltreStudio should be preserved.
21 June 2012
Flash Plugin for Firefox, Opera, Seamonkey....
Download Flash 11.3.300.262 Plugin (3.6 MB) crashes with Firefox
Download Flash 11.2.202.235 Plugin (3.5 MB)
New: Extracted once in CommonFiles\Plugins in your PortableApps folder (if test fail run latest browser installer.
(included also Adobe Reader plugin 10.1.3.23 but need installed program)
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: 14.0b3 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.
Media player without installation.
Download Portable Winamp (14.2 MB)
Extract and run WinampPortable.
Language set by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in WinampPortable.ini) (English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Simpchinese, Tradchinese, Turkish).
Settings and playlists created in portable folder (Data\Winamp).
Settings of installed Winamp should be preserved.
20 June 2012
Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera 32-64 Online (0.5 MB)
Download Portable Opera Next 32-64 Online (0.5 MB)
In first screen enter: parrot_12.01-1473
Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable
Extract and run OperaPortable or OperaNextPortable (each have their own profile).
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 %