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Example of a 4
GB USB flash drive
For the purposes of this list, a portable application is software that can be used from portable storage devices such as USB flash drives, digital audio players, PDAs[1] or external hard drives. To be considered for inclusion, an application must be executable on multiple computers from removable storage without installation, and without writing settings or data onto a computer's non-removable storage. This includes modified portable versions of non-portable applications.
Bundles
Launchers
Development
Scripting languages
Compilers
Setup creators
Visual mapping/productivity tools
Graphics
3D modeling and rendering
- Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software.
- Blender:
- BlenderPortable
- Blender Pocket
- XBlender[2]
Animation
Graphic editors
Icon editors
Viewers
Document-based
Office and publishing
Editors
Personal notes
Educational
Games
Emulators
Plug-in emulators
Internet
IRC
- ChatZilla Note: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, or Firefox.
- Miranda NG
- mIRC Note: There is a U3 version of mIRC that can be installed on U3 drives. The original application is portable, leaving behind only the license key in the registry. (This may not be true with the newer versions that are Vista-compatible, as their default user data area was changed to the user's application data folder.) Since v3.1, it can be started from a command line using the -portable switch to use settings, DLLs, and license keys that are stored in the same folder as mirc.exe.
- Nettalk
- Pidgin (formerly Gaim)
- Opera (Integrated Irc client)
- HexChat
- Portable X-Chat Aqua – for Mac OS X
- RSSOwl (needs Java runtime environment)
- Opera (Integrated RSS/Atom client)
- portaPuTTY
- WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI
Anonymity/Anti-censorship
Miscellaneous
- Ahnenblatt multilingual Genealogy software
- Moka5 LivePC Engine (Portable VMware). Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers and requires administrator rights.
- Mojopac portable chopped down copy of windows. Requires administrator rights.
Multimedia
File converters
CD/DVD burning
Editors
Audio/MIDI sequencer
- Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation
Players
Recorders
Video capture
Video repair
Networking
Miscellaneous
Remote desktop
Other tools
Web editors
Calendar management
File management
- 7-Zip
- Filzip
- PeaZip, for BSD, Linux and Windows
- WinRAR, Portable version for Windows, still requires having a license for a regular version of WinRAR. The version number for WinRAR Unplugged is 3.8.0.1, while the latest WinRAR for Windows version is 4.11
PDF tools
Readers
Writers
Security and encryption
Password management
Anti-spyware/malware
Antivirus
Steganography
Real-time disk/volume Encryption
System maintenance
Optimization and cleaning
Storage management
Visual maps of free space and biggest files and folders on hard drive.
System information
- CPU-Z – CPU and memory hardware details – clock and FSB speeds, SPD, OS version.
- AIDA32 – freeware system information, diagnostics, and auditing program
- Speccy – System information tool.
Partition/file recovery
See also
References
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