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.

28 October 2011


Windows based Disk Editor for Windows and Linux File Systems without installation.
Download Portable DiskExplorer from MegaUpload (3.7 MB)

Extract and run DiskExplorerPortable (for FAT), NTExplorerPortable (for NTFS) or LinuxExplorerPortable.
Settings of installed DiskExplorer should be preserved.


Recover your data without installation.
Download Portable GetDataBack from MegaUpload (4.1 MB)

Extract and run GetDataBackPortable (for FAT) or GetDataBackNTPortable (for NTFS).
For Russian, read RUS-Readme.txt in App\GetDataBack.
Settings of installed GetDataBack should be preserved.

24 October 2011


Powerful Graphical Disk Space Manager without installation.
Download Portable TreeSize from MegaUpload (6.3 MB)
(md5: 9558d29d1c9347dc71998816bdea3893)

Extract and run TreeSizePortable.
Settings of installed TreeSize should be preserved.

22 October 2011


File archiver with a high compression ratio without installation.
Download Portable 7-Zip Alpha from MegaUpload (1.9 MB)
Download Portable 7-Zip Beta from MegaUpload (2.0 MB)
Download Portable 7-Zip Final from MegaUpload (1.9 MB)

Extract and run 7-ZipPortable.
32 or 64 bit files selected by launcher.
Drive letter of editor's path updated (if you plug USB key in another computer).
You can Add Parameters in 7-ZipPortable.ini
If you have Notepad++Portable or UltraEditPortable in the same foder as 7-ZipPortable you can choose one of them as editor (F4) by changing one (not two) false to true in 7-ZipPortable.ini.
Settings of installed 7-Zip should be preserved.

21 October 2011


Recover deleted files and restore files that are lost or damaged without installation.
Download Portable EasyRecovery en-fr-de-it-es from MegaUpload (26.5 MB)
(md5: c5a43a505bff6cb1e62371e8037e050e)

Extract and run EasyRecoveryPortable.
Repaired files in App\EasyRecovery\Repaired (drive letter updated).
Settings of installed EasyRecovery should be preserved.

18 October 2011


Mount rar, zip, DVD, CD, HDD images quickly without installation.
Download Portable WinMount 32 bit from MegaUpload (3.4 MB)
Download Portable WinMount 64 bit from MegaUpload (3.7 MB)

Extract and run WinMountPortable or WinMountPortable_64.
Don't forget to unmount drives before leaving.
Settings of installed WinMount should be preserved.

09 October 2011


Audio grabber for audio CDs (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable EAC from MegaUpload (5.3 MB)

Extract and run EACPortable.

Edit EACPortable.ini to set External Encoder with Default Settings:
ExternalEncoder=FLAC (1.2.1)
ExternalEncoder=LAME (3.98.4)
ExternalEncoder=Ogg (2.87)
ExternalEncoder=APE (4.10)
ExternalEncoder=Custom to keep personal settings for encoder

Settings of installed EAC should be preserved.

07 October 2011


Image enlargement solution without installation.
Download Portable PhotoZoom from MegaUpload (3.3 MB)

Extract and run PhotoZoomPortable.
Settings of installed PhotoZoom should be preserved.