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 since 22 october 2009.
On Vista and 7 turn off User Account Control (UAC) or run launcher as admin.

More portable apps (reported to Blogger by Adobe and Techsmith) can be found here.

16 November 2010


Small and fast PDF Reader without installation.
Download Portable FoxitReader 4 from MegaUpload (8.5 MB)
(md5: e1d08259b666e362fe57de97cecf912a)
Download Portable FoxitReader 3 from RapidShare (8.0 MB)
(md5: bac9e768d0b59350845a861217efeb34)

Extract and run FoxitReaderPortable.
Included Add-ons for decoding images in JPEG2000 or JBIG2 formats, displaying Eastern Asian Language in a PDF file, better display quality for graphics and JavaScript support.
If you drag'n drop a pdf file on (or open with) FoxitReaderPortable: it will be opened in FoxitReader.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, PortugueseBR, Russian, Turkish, TradChinese, SimpChinese..
Settings of installed FoxitReader should be preserved.


Stop spam and unwanted email without installation.
Download Portable MailWasher 6.5.4 En from MegaUpload (8.5 MB)
(md5: cb026cd383b953bc4e109888bca55d10)
Téléchargez MailWasher Portable 6.5.3 Fr de MegaUpload (8.8 MB)
(md5: 8d458dbc8f587c4997e41ad8384595ed)

Not latest version but better than 2010: don't need .NET Framework and launch quickly.
Updated launchers create settings in Data (don't move from APPDATA).
Extract and run MailWasherPortable.
Settings of installed MailWasher should be preserved.


Music files tag editor without installation.
Download Portable TagRename from MegaUpload (2.9 MB)

Extract and run TagRenamePortable.
Language set by launcher according Windows localization: English, Dutch, SimpChinese, TradChinese, Russian.
If you want to set langauge yourself, write SystemLang=false in TagRenamePortable.ini.
Settings of installed TagRename should be preserved.