Portable Mode

Portable mode

Portable mode keeps WinSpeed and all its data in one folder, which suits a USB stick or a PC where you don't want to install anything.

How it works

WinSpeed is portable when a file named portable (or portable.txt) is next to WinSpeed.exe. The portable zip from the releases page already includes it.

	Installed	Portable
Program	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\WinSpeed	wherever you unzip it
Settings and history	%APPDATA%\WinSpeed	Data\ next to the exe
Start with Windows	optional	optional (points to the folder's exe)
Updates	run the new installer	replace WinSpeed.exe with the new one

Switching

• Installed → portable: copy WinSpeed.exe to a folder, create an empty file named portable next to it, and copy the contents of %APPDATA%\WinSpeed into Data\.
• Portable → installed: run the installer, then copy the contents of Data\ into %APPDATA%\WinSpeed while WinSpeed is closed.

Data folder contents

File	Contents
settings.ini	All settings (see Settings reference)
usage.tsv	Hourly traffic per adapter
interfaces.tsv	Adapter names
speedtests.tsv	Speed test history
error.log	Only exists if something went wrong; attach it to bug reports