Freeware - Portable Applications

What are Portable Applications?
Portable Applications are applications that are designed specifically to run from a thumb drive, USB drive, or IPod. They do not require installation and therefore make it easy for you to not only take your files with you, but also your applications.

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Portable VLC Media Player – http://portableapps.com/apps/audio_video/media_players/portable_vlc

Portable VLC media player is the popular VLC media player packaged (see above) as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. This is designed to run directly from from a USB flash drive, portable hard drive, IPod or other protable device. (No installation required). Now you can take your files - AND - the application with you!

Portable OpenOffice.org – http://portableapps.com/apps/office/suites/portable_openoffice

Portable OpenOffice.org is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go. This is designed to run directly from from a USB flash drive, portable hard drive, IPod or other protable device. (No installation required). Now you can take your files - AND - the applications with you!

Portable GIMP – http://portableapps.com/apps/photos_design/image_editors/portable_gimp

Portable GIMP is the popular GIMP for Windows image editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go.

PStart – http://www.pegtop.de/start/

PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks.

Portable KompoZer – http://portableapps.com/apps/development/web_editors/portable_nvu

Portable KompoZer is the easy-to-use KompoZer web editor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your website on the go.

DeepBurner Portable Edition – http://www.deepburner.com/?r=products&pr=deepburner&prr=portableed

DeepBurner Portable is a easy-to-use CD/DVD Burner software that works straight from your removable media, whether it's a USB flash drive, compact flash card, or even a good old floppy. DeepBurner Portable Edition has all the features of DeepBurner. No need to install anything and therefore no traces are left on the system you are using. Just plugin your flash and burn your disks, using DeepBurner. Simple.
To download this version from their website, Open the link to their website, click "Download" then look for "Download Portable Versions" and download the DeepBurner Free application listed. (Note: They update the program about twice a month). (Note: Normally, our list does not contain freeware that is "limited" in any way. However, this product is very good and is only limited by some features that if you want you would have to purchase. This freeware version of this product is worth the download.

IZArc2Go – http://www.izarc.org/

IZArc2Go is the portable version of IZArc. IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.
Suggested by Shimon Lebowitz of Yerushalayim, Israel.

Audacity Portable -http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable

Audacity Portable is the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record 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.

Mozilla FireFox Portable Edition -http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

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

WinAudit -http://www.pxserver.com/

PC audit and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings, etc. This will run an audit of your computer and will create an HTML, PDF, or text file of the results.