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.

30 January 2011


Download Manager and Download Accelerator software for Windows without installation.
Download Portable GetRight from MegaUpload (6.0 MB)
(md5: 685400440ae65f6839e6b539c0654c2e)

Extract and run GetRightPortable.
Don't forget to close in systray when leaving.
Settings of installed GetRight should be preserved.

26 January 2011


The free and open productivity suite without installation.
Download Portable OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 en-US from RapidShare (79.4 MB)
(md5: 6cdf0638add42e51942b228415214aab)

Extract and run OOo*Portable.
Settings of installed OpenOffice should be preserved.

For other languages:
Download 3.3.0 Windows language pack:
Run LangPack 3.3.0 PreSetup in OpenOfficePortable folder and don't close MessageBox.
Run Language Pack Installer: should found path, don't change.
When finished close MessageBox.

Can use Java Runtime Environment Portable

20 January 2011


Download manager from file hosts without installation.
Download Portable JDownloader from MegaUpload (22.6 MB)
(md5: 72934e9abac0a91935aab911a716e7aa)

Needs Java Runtime Environment Portable or Installed.

Extract and run JDownloaderPortable.

Java memory max set to 512 MB: edit JDownloaderPortable.ini to change.
Settings of installed JDownloader should be preserved.