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.
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.
If you found dead links, search on Jooseng's Mirrors.
Advanced freeware audio player without installation.
Download Portable foobar2000 (2.6 MB)
Included Monkey's Audio Decoder 2.1.6.
Extract and run foobar2000Portable.
Settings of installed foobar2000 should be preserved.
Fast and free Web browser without installation.
Download Portable Opera snapshost 32-64 Online (0.5 MB)
In first screen enter:eXpl0dngR0botz_12.13-1721
Download Portable Opera 32-64 Online (0.5 MB)
In first screen enter:1212
Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable
Extract and run OperaPortable or OperaNextPortable (each have their own profile).
Edit OperaPortable.ini 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: 21.0a1
Download Portable Aurora MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number:20.0a2
Download Portable Firefox MultiVersion Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number: 19.0b2 or 18.0 or 17.0.2esr or 10.0.12esr or 3.6.28
Optimized Firefox Browser without installation.
Download Portable Pale Moon 15.x 32-64 bit Multilingual Online (0.4 MB)
Select language and enter Version Number : 15.4
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
64-bit variant of Firefox without installation.
Download Portable Waterfox 16.0.1 en-US (23.0 MB)
PasswordFox 1.32 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.
Download accelerator and manager without installation.
Download Portable FDM Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run FDMPortable.
Settings of installed FDM should be preserved.
Small and fast PDF Reader without installation.
Download Portable FoxitReader Multilingual Online (0.3 MB)
Select language and enter 545.0114
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.
Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording without installation.
Download Portable Reaper (11.4 MB)
Extract and run ReaperPortable.
Settings of installed Reaper should be preserved.
Screen captures from Windows screen, and text capture without installation.
Download Portable HyperSnap 7 En-De-Fr-Ru Online (0.3 MB)
Extract and run HyperSnapPortable.
Settings of installed HyperSnap should be preserved.
Multimedia Player (KMPlayer Reloaded) without installation.
Download Portable PotPlayer Online (0.6 MB)
On first screen enter: 1.5.35238
Extract and run PotPlayerPortable.
Settings of installed PotPlayer should be preserved.
Java Runtime Environment & Plug-in for Portable Apps.
Download Portable Java 7u11 32-64 bit Online (0.3 MB)
Extract in your PortableApps folder (CommonFiles and *Portable folders at the same level).
Download Portable Java 6u38 32-64 bit Setup Extractor (0.3 MB)
Accept License Agreement then download
jre-6u38-windows-i586.exe and/or
jre-6u38-windows-x64.exe in same folder as extractor.
Download Portable Java 8-ea-bin-b73 32-64 bit Setup Extractor (0.3 MB)
Accept License Agreement then download
jre-8-ea-bin-b73-windows-i586-16_jan_2013.exe and/or
jre-8-ea-bin-b73-windows-x64-16_jan_2013.exe in same folder as extractor.
Setup extractors backup previous version by renaming folders.
Google Internet browser without installation.
Download Portable Google Chrome MultiVersion Online (0.4 MB) (updated)
In first screen of Chrome MultiVersion Online, enter download string:
EF774F2F7E9B09FE/26.0.1386.0 for Chrome Dev
E9E0540014C63563/25.0.1364.36 for Chrome Beta
4E0C925A1CB63D91/24.0.1312.52 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 23.0.1300.0 Online (0.2 MB)
Iron Multiversion Online will download setup and extract files.
Flash Plugin (not needed for Chrome)
Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable
Extract and run ChromePortable 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 %