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.
Audio Editing, Recording, Conversion, Restoration, & Analysis Software without installation.
Download Portable GoldWave on Zone-DL (2.6 MB)
Extract and run GoldWavePortable.
Settings of installed GoldWave should be preserved.
Find, organise and share your photos without installation.
Download Portable Picasa3 on RapidShare (7.8 MB)
(md5: 86b6806bdcf1cf07bbee9136b0e246ea)
Extract and run Picasa3Portable.
Settings of installed Picasa3 should be preserved.
Audio grabber for audio CDs (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable EAC on Zone-DL (2.9 MB)
Extract and run EACPortable.
Edit EACPortable.ini to fix External Encoder:
ExternalEncoder=LAME (3.98.2)
ExternalEncoder=Ogg (2.85)
ExternalEncoder=APE (4.05)
ExternalEncoder=FLAC (1.2.1)
EAC Guides
Settings of installed EAC should be preserved.
Anti-Virus Scanner (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable DrWeb on RapidShare (16.2 MB)
(md5: 1ae6f21aade55f23eb250b66a4fd5bf9)
Extract and run DrWebPortable.
Language fixed by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in DrWebPortable.ini): bg, cn, cs, de, el, en, es, fr, hu, it, nl, pl, pt, ru, sk.
Save a part or whole web site to drive without installation.
Download Portable OfflineExplorer on RapidShare (6.6 MB)
(md5: 28b4b89fb4eee80ac1f51c9a226fec97)
Extract and run OfflineExplorerPortable.
Language fixed by launcher according Windows localisation: ar, cz, da, de, du, en, fr, hr, hu, it, pl, ptbr, ro, ru, sk, sp, srb, src, tr, ua, zhcn, zhtc.
Settings of installed OfflineExplorer should be preserved.
The free and open productivity suite without installation.
Download Portable OpenOffice.org on WHFF (87 MB)
(md5: a4a7377e8b52b539ec878b4915f9f4aa)
Télécharger le patch Fr sur RapidShare (10 MB)
(md5: 830ab3e2e9f2616504173c8e1f7d9cf7)
Extract and run OOo*Portable.
Settings of installed OpenOffice should be preserved.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, SSI, WML, Perl editor without installation.
WeBuilder includes all features of HTMLPad, Rapid CSS & PHP.
Download Portable WeBuilder on RapidShare (6.5 MB)
(md5: 56b73ce8db6fd489202493807f2d9ef8)
Extract and run WeBuilderPortable.
PHP 5.2.9-2 will be downloaded if you check PHP Interpreter (Preview php page)
Tools/Preview In/Portable Firefox, Netscape or Opera if found.
Settings of installed WeBuilder should be preserved.
A little Tutorial trying to explain how to compile launchers for portable with NSIS.
Post your questions here.
Tutorial mirror
Thanks to KursadOlmez and Anthony for hosting.
Portable Total Uninstall 4.10 Multilingual 1.4 MB
A little Tutorial trying to explain how to compile launchers for portable with NSIS.
Post your questions here.
Tutorial mirror
Thanks to KursadOlmez and Anthony for hosting.
Portable Total Uninstall 4.10 MultiLang 1.4 MB
Open source software for recording and editing sounds without installation.
Download Portable Audacity on MediaFire (2.3 MB)
Download Portable Audacity Beta on RapidShare (6.0 MB)
(md5: 86c735920c2debdcce19d0511459bcd0)
Extract and run AudacityPortable.
Audacity 1.2.6 is the second example of this tutorial and comes with NSIS sources.
Include LAME 3.98.2 and FFmpeg (in v1.3.7)
Language fixed 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.
