Sylpheed V2.4.8

Sylpheed is a fast email and news client, with support for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and NNTP. It handles multiple mail accounts, threaded display, junk mail filtering, Security options (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1), GPG integration, search, etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Create an empty subfolder called profile in that folder, and launch the program using "sylpheed.exe --configdir profile".

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista

IECookiesView V1.71

IECookiesView is a small utility that displays the details of all cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer, view and search through them, deleting the unwanted cookies etc.

Writes settings to: Windows registry. I am accepting this as portable because it can be used to quickly locate and remove unwanted cookies in a crunch. Be warned that all UI settings are written to the registry, so any UI configuration you make is reset when you run the app on a different machine.

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch iecv.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

FileZilla V3.0.5

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, keepalive, timeout detection, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy etc.

You may also like to check out filezilla portable for a portable package of FileZilla that is optimized for USB memort stick.

Note that starting from V2.2.23, Filezilla no longer runs on Win9x/Me because it has been converted to use Unicode internally.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to any folder of your choice. Create a file called fzdefaults.xml in the same folder with the following content:

<FileZilla3>
<Settings>
<Setting name="Config Location">settings/</Setting>
</Settings>
</FileZilla3>

This will make FileZilla write settings to a subfolder called "settings" under the application folder. Launch FileZilla.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Halite V0.3.0

Halite is a BitTorrent client that is still in early development. It supports global/per-torrent connection/transfer rate limits, trackerless torrents, IP filtering, minimize to tray with transfer rate summary etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Halite.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

Koma-Mail V3.645

Koma-Mail is a multi-user email client with support for IMAP/POP3/SMAP/WebDAV. It has a built-in spam filter, as well as JavaScript/ActiveX blocker. It supports HTML emails and inline attachments. It can also be used as a RSS newsfeed reader.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Koma_Mail.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

PortableTor V0.1.2.19

PortableTor is a convenient package for anonymous web browsing. It uses Tor, a virtual network that allows you to surf anonymously. It also contains Vidalia, which is a GUI controller for Tor, and Privoxy, which is a HTTP/HTTPS Proxy servers. With these components working together, you simply need to configure your web browser to use Privoxy as the proxy server and you will be able to visut web sites with complete privacy.

Download Here

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PortableTor.exe. Configure your web browser to use "127.0.0.1:8118" as the HTTP/HTTPS proxy server.

Stealth: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Pocket K-Meleon V1.13

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable and lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). Pocket K-Meleon is a fully portable and compressed version of K-Meleon SeaMonkey which needs no special launcher and uses only a single profile. Flashblock is fully enabled, and the size of the browser disk cache and length of history have been set to zero to extend the life of USB flash drives.

Pocket K-Meleon is a fully portable and compressed packaging of K-Meleon 1.x. No special launcher is needed and only a single profile is used. (If you want multiple profiles, use KMprof to launch Pocket K-Meleon.) By default, the size of the browser disk cache and length of history have been set to zero to extend the life of USB flash drives.

To install, simply unzip all folders and files to a folder of your choice on any read/write drive. Then run the browser via K-Meleon.exe.

Download Pocket K-Meleon 1.13 Tiny (in English, 5.5 MB 7zip archive). Please note that this version is produced and supported by Alain Aupeix from whom versions in other languages may also be downloaded.

Possible issue: If you encounter an error like "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000000#)" running this version under Windows XP, please try Alain's version 1.13 Fast or version 1.02 (see below) instead.

Download Pocket K-Meleon 1.02 (in English, 5.5 MB zip archive; see full list of changes).

Note: K-Meleon 1.x needs to access some DLLs (such as msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll) which older versions of Windows do not install by default. However, these DLLs need only be present in the K-Meleon program folder for K-Meleon to run. DLL files can be searched for at www.dll-files.com or www.dlldump.com.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: MSVCR71.DLL

How to extract: Download the 7-Zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch k-meleon.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Partial. No problems with display of Unicode on web pages, but does not support creation of local files with Unicode filenames.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Team Talk V3.4

This is the latest version of TeamTalk which is a voice conferencing application (or internet phone). TeamTalk allows you to talk to friends and colleagues using the internet as audio carrier. With TeamTalk any number of people can participate in a conversation and is only limited by the bandwidth you have available. Each user can choose his or her own audio quality which also determines the throughput required to each user. TeamTalk allows a throughput between 560 - 5850 bytes/sec. per user (so make sure those unlucky ones with a 56K modem are able to receive at your selected audio quality).
Features:

• Supports 8, 16 and 32 KHz audio for both low- and high-bandwidth users.
• Low lag by using audio broadcasting and no buffering.
• Throughput between 560 bytes/sec. and 5850 bytes/sec. per user.
• Channels with topics and passwords.
• Share files with other users in your channel.
• Hotkeys and voice activation.
• Individual volume.
• Positioning of participants using 3D sound.
• Unicode-enabled to support multiple languages.

Click here to download.

Writes settings to: Application Folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default location. Move all files except instlog.lsl to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the application. Run the program by double-clicking TeamTalk3.exe.

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

FeedReader V3.12

Feedreader is a feed aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. Its "Intelliupdate" feature automatically learns the update frequency of each feed. In addition, it supports automatic download of enclosures/podcasts, categorization by tagging, nested folders etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Remember to select "Configure software to run on a portable disk" during installation. Copy all files (unins000.exe and unins000.dat) to a folder of your choice. Finally uninstall the program. Launch feedreader.exe.

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Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

GreenBrowser V4.4

GreenBrowser is a tabbed web browser based on IE with many features: Collector, Mouse Gesture, Mouse Drag, Ad Filter, Search Engine,Background Colour, Toolbar Skin, Proxy, Tab Bar, Quick Key, Auto Scroll, Auto Save, Auto Fill Form, Auto Hide, Start Mode, Link List Analyze, Group, Status Bar Display, Special Download Control, Search Bar, External Toolbar, Run Script, Download Manager, Page Zoom etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: Internet Explorer

How to extract: Download the "Green Version" ZIP package extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GreenBrowser.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

WinSCP Portable

SFTP, FTP and SCP on the go

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Learn more about WinSCP...

Download Now 4.0.6, Windows 1.6MB

Features

WinSCP Portable is a free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows with lots of great features:

• PuTTY Portable integration
• Graphical user interface
• Translated into several languages
• All common operations with files
• Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol
• Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
• Integrated text editor
• Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
• Windows Explorer-like and Norton Commander-like interfaces

Support

For help getting WinSCP Portable up and running, please read the following:

• Downloading a Portable App
• Installing a Portable App
• Using a Portable App
• Upgrading a Portable App

Language Support: You can add in additional translations by downloading them from the WinSCP translations page, unzipping them, and placing them within your WinSCPPortable\App\WinSCP directory.

Download Details

• File size: 1.6MB (download), 1.8MB (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com and the WinSCP team
• Date updated: January 18, 2008
• System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: launcher source (included), WinSCP source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 00868471020670bea1eb0141257a081a
• Downloads: 68,000

Sage Extension

an RSS extension for Firefox Portable

The Sage Extension works within Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition and gives you access to a lightweight RSS reader using much of the built-in functionality of Firefox. It supports RSS and Atom feeds, feed discovery, customizable feed layouts and more. And, since it uses Firefox for many of its functions, it's a very small download.

Download Now for Windows, All Languages 0.2MB

Extension Homepage: http://sage.mozdev.org/

PuTTY Portable

portable telnet and SSH

PuTTY Portable is the popular PuTTY telnet and SSH client packaged as a portable app, so you can connect in to your systems on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Download Now 0.60, Windows, English 0.8MB

Features

PuTTY is a lightweight telnet and SSH client for Windows, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It allows you to securely connect to your systems while on the go. Learn more about PuTTY...

Advanced Tip - If you'd like a high-color icon and transparency, PuTTY Portable is designed to work with PuTTY Tray, too. Just replace putty.exe in the PuTTYPortable\App\putty directory with the PuTTY Tray executable.

Support

For help getting PuTTY Portable up and running, visit PuTTY Portable Support:

• Installing PuTTY Portable
• Using PuTTY Portable
• Upgrading PuTTY Portable
• Running from a CD (PuTTY Portable Live)
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Version History

Download Details

• File size: 0.8MB (download), 0.9MB (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and the PuTTY team
• Date updated: June 12, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, PuTTY: MIT)
• Source Code: launcher source (included), PuTTY source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): ae19fd946a312ad2ed8942fe39993bf2
• Downloads: 218,000

Pidgin Portable

instant messaging made portable and secure

Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable) is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC. You can also easily add portable encryption plugins for secure, encrypted messaging.

Download Now 2.1.1 for Windows, Multilingual 11.2MB

Features

Pidgin Portable is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that works with AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! and more. You can log into multiple networks all with the same program. All your IM settings and buddy lists are self-contained, so it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on. Learn more about Pidgin...

Pidgin Portable supports the two most popular encryption plugins for Pidgin. Both are packaged as portable installers that automatically work with Pidgin Portable. You can install Pidgin-Encryption 3.0 (learn more) and/or Pidgin-OTR 3.1 (learn more) and communicate securely with other users.

Users of Windows 98 and Me can get Pidgin Portable working on their machines by following the steps outlined in the Running on Windows 98/Me support topic.

Support

For help getting up and running, visit Pidgin Portable Support:

• Installing Pidgin Portable
• Using Pidgin Portable
• Upgrading Pidgin Portable
• Copying You Local Pidgin Settings to Pidgin Portable
• Setting Pidgin Portable to Use a Specific Language
• Running From CD (Pidgin Portable Live)
• Installing the Off The Record or Pidgin-Encryption Plugins
• Running on Windows 98/Me
• Known Issues
• Modifications - A list of the modifications made to Pidgin in this package
• Version History

Download Details

• File size: 11.2MB (download), 9.4MB-40MB (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and the Pidgin development team
  
• Date updated: August 23, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 98*/Me*/2000/XP/Vista
  
• * Running on Windows 98/Me requires additional configuration
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: Launcher (included), Pidgin source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): ecf27f9ff500abd0cbfe6e2f94f2fe67
• Downloads: 2,709,000

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition

real email, on the go™

Mozilla Thunderbird™, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. You can also add in GPG and Enigmail to encrypt and sign your email.

Download 2.0.0.9 for Windows, English 6.7MB

Features

Mozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, the portable version leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and adress book with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Thunderbird...

Support

For help getting up and running, visit Thunderbird Portable Support:

• Installing Thunderbird Portable
• Using Thunderbird Portable
• Upgrading Thunderbird Portable
• Adding GPG and Enigmail
• Copying your local Thunderbird settings to Thunderbird Portable
• Running from a CD (Thunderbird Portable Live)
• Using Thunderbird with Webmail (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc)
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Additional Recommended Settings
• Version History

You can also post a note in the Thunderbird Portable Support Forum.

Download Details

• File size: 6.7MB (download), 25MB (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: November 27, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher, GnuPG, Enigmail: GPL; Thunderbird: MPL)
• Source Code: Launcher source (included), Thunderbird source, GPG source, Enigmail source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): ac59129408420278ad93b944dcb8f362
• Downloads: 3,190,000

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

your browser, your way... in your pocket™

Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Download Now 2.0.0.11 for Windows, English 6.0MB Languages

Features

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Firefox...

Support

For help getting Firefox Portable up and running, visit Firefox Portable Support:

• Installing Firefox Portable
• Using Firefox Portable
• Upgrading Firefox Portable
• Copying your local Firefox settings to Firefox Portable
• Improving Firefox Portable's Performance
• Installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.)
• Running From a CD (Firefox Portable Live)
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Version History

There's also a list of Frequently Asked Questions and a Support Forum.

Download Details

• File size: 6.0MB (download), ~25Mb (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: December 5, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX*
  * when running under Wine, the system default font will be used
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Firefox: MPL/GPL/LPGL under Mozilla EULA)
  
• Source Code: Launcher source (included), Firefox source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 9bd8e9bb14adc4d8cc233e63e9bae4d5
• Downloads: 6,298,000

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 2

your browser, your way... in your pocket™

Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition is available packaged with Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 2, allowing you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. Please note that Firefox 3 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. If you're looking for the stable version, please head to the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition homepage.

Download Now 3 Beta 2 for Windows, English 7.1MB

Install Note: The 3 Beta 2 release will install alongside a Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0 installation by default and show up in your PortableApps.com Menu with a "Test" suffix. The installer supports upgrading existing 2.0 installations by manually changing the install location as well.

Support

Though there is no support specifically for the 3 Beta 2 release, most of the standard Firefox Portable Support applies:

• Installing Firefox Portable
• Using Firefox Portable
• Upgrading Firefox Portable
• Copying your local Firefox settings to Firefox Portable
• Improving Firefox Portable's Performance
• Installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.)
• Running From a CD (Firefox Portable Live)
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Version History

There's also a list of Frequently Asked Questions and a Support Forum.

Download Details

• File size: 7.1MB (download), ~27Mb (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: December 19, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX*
  * when running under Wine, the system default font will be used
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Firefox: MPL/GPL/LPGL under Mozilla EULA)
  
• Source Code: Launcher source (included), Firefox source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 1e64c57ec2576819560c13b4845fa9c6

Miranda IM Portable

compact, portable instant messaging

Miranda IM Portable is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Download ANSI 0.6.8 for Windows, English, 1.2MB Languages

Download Unicode 0.6.8 for Windows, English, 1.2MB

Features

Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It supports ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more. Functionality can be greatly enhanced with an extensive set of plugins (currently over 350) as well. The interface and setup is a bit more involved than other IM clients like Pidgin Portable, but the customization options available are richer. Learn more about Miranda IM...

Support

For help getting Miranda IM Portable up and running, visit Miranda IM Portable Support:

• Installing Miranda IM Portable
• Using Miranda IM Portable
• Upgrading Miranda IM Portable
• Copying your local Miranda IM settings to Miranda IM Portable
• Changing Miranda IM Portable to Another Language
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Version History

You can also post a note in the Miranda IM Portable Support Forum.

Download Details

• File size: 1.2MB (download), 1.6Mb (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and the Miranda IM team
• Date updated: March 14, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
  
• Source Code: Launcher (included), Miranda source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks):
  • ANSI: 3c7bb87283d005002a069e09aac4b87c
  • Unicode: b350b75cd67268ba876c3aeee18431a8
• Downloads: 388,000

FireFTP Extension

an FTP extension for Portable Firefox

The FireFTP Extension works within Portable Firefox and gives you access to a lightweight FTP client using much of the built-in functionality of Firefox. It includes SSL/TLS support, file diffs, image thumbnails, resumes, proxy support and more. And, since it uses Firefox for many of its functions, it's a very small download.

Download Now for Windows 1MB

Extension Homepage: http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

FileZilla Portable

FTP in your pocket

FileZilla Portable (formerly Portable FileZilla) is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or on a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Download Now 2.2.32 for Windows, Multilingual 2.3MB

Features

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with lots of handy features. It supports resume on both downloads and uploads, timeout detection, firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 support, SSL, SFTP and more, all with an intuitive drag and drop interface. Learn more about FileZilla...

Support

For help getting up and running, visit FileZilla Portable Support:

• Installing FileZilla Portable
• Using FileZilla Portable
• Configure File Viewing / Editing of Specific Files
• Upgrading FileZilla Portable
• Known Issues
• Running from a CD (FileZilla Portable Live)
• Modifications
• Version History

You can also post a note in the FileZilla Portable Support Forum.

Download Details

• File size: 2.3Mb (download), 2.6Mb (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and the FileZilla development team
• Date added: May 7, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista (95/98/Me: Use FileZilla Portable 2.2.22), Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: Launcher (included), FileZilla source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): cdc191e3f1b5c95fcbf971c3110d9990
• Downloads: 948,000