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    installing programs without administrator’s rights

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    by shweetnsour ·

    hello all

    im new to the site and would like to find out is their anyway i can install software on a pc running windows xp pro , without having administrators rights, as its a pc from work and they have havent given me those rights

    please any help will be much apreciated and thanks in advance

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    • #2492583

      Clarifications

      by shweetnsour ·

      In reply to installing programs without administrator’s rights

      Clarifications

    • #2492561

      Your best hope

      by jamesrl ·

      In reply to installing programs without administrator’s rights

      Is to talk to the powers that be about it and have them either give you admin rights, or install the software for you.

      Some software can be installed without admin rights, depending on the installer.

      But many apps require admin rights to install and/or run.

      At my work, they created an admin ID for me that isn’t on the domain, so that I can install software by rebooting my computer and using the admin ID (but log on as local, not on the domain). Then I reboot and logon on to the domain and everything is fine.

      James

      • #2492453

        the powers that be

        by shweetnsour ·

        In reply to Your best hope

        hi James

        thanks for the reply and your help. i just have one problem though??/ The powers that be are total D…!!!!!!!’S (NO HE REALLY IS)and im prettty sure he wont help me with this, this is why i thought maybe someone knows a way around this, or even knows how to maybe crack a way into finding out the username and password of the Administrator? even if there’s program that i can install that can crack this?

        • #2492448

          nah

          by cg it ·

          In reply to the powers that be

          if the equipment is owned by the company and given to you to use for your job, then cracking the local admin account and they find out about it might cost you your job. Most every company I know of has the employee sign a document concerning company property such as laptops and the use of it. Tampering with or the installation of unauthorized software is a dismissal offense.

          They will find out about it.

          Browse the web you’ll find sites that can help you but we can’t here.

        • #2492432

          oh my word

          by shweetnsour ·

          In reply to nah

          thanks for the info CG IT, i will just leave it alone then.

    • #3004310

      Workarouds that may work

      by heartrobber18 ·

      In reply to installing programs without administrator’s rights

      This page describes some ways using which you can now use your favorite applications (without installing!) without Administrator privileges.

      • #3004272

        ZOMBIE ALERT !!!!!

        by older mycroft ·

        In reply to Workarouds that may work

        This thread was put to bed 31 months ago.

        That’s over TWO AND A HALF YEARS ago !!

        Then you pop up with a half-arsed offering and manage to miss off whatever you are describing.

        Well done! 😉

        • #3004254

          Hey, Mycroft, cut the guy some slack

          by neilb@uk ·

          In reply to ZOMBIE ALERT !!!!!

          It’s his first post here and, as he’s one of our most welcome friends from the Subcontinent, you should be proffering The Hand of Friendship. He can’t help being an incompetent, unobservant idiot. If you’re nasty to him then he might never post again.

          😀

        • #3004249

          You’re making it worse!

          by kenone ·

          In reply to Hey, Mycroft, cut the guy some slack

          Stop defending him, he was better off before you jumped in on his side.

        • #3004246

          You are correct admonishing me in this way. I apologise …

          by older mycroft ·

          In reply to Hey, Mycroft, cut the guy some slack

          For not noticing that the person, being that they are from the Sub-Continent, and [b]ONLY[/b] having [u]25 months experience of TR[/u], I should have realised [i]how easily[/i] getting sucked into a Zombie Posting can be.

          I’ll try to be nicer next time I find a TR member with greater than 2 years experience, stepping forth into that void we all call POSTING BLINDLY. 😉

        • #2840291

          I already knew…

          by heartrobber18 ·

          In reply to You are correct admonishing me in this way. I apologise …

          Dude, I already saw the date before posting!
          The only reason I made an entry is because if you search “installing without admin privileges” in G00gL3 its still one of the top three results.

          And all you network administrators out there, there are ways for installing applications without administrator rights. check out my blog for details! abtevrythng(dot)blogspot(dot)com

        • #2840253

          You’ve certainly covered all the angles [i](sic)[/i] …

          by older mycroft ·

          In reply to I already knew…

          I was particularly impressed by this:

          [b]”[u]WAY THREE ? Other ways[/u]

          Well if none of the above worked for you, maybe you could search for an alternative application that does the same thing what you want, or you can make your own portable applications by using vmware ThinApp or other techniques available. Just do some Googling and you will find different methods.”[/b]

          Odd that you included a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free Card’ for all the hapless individuals who’d just wasted half-a-day trying all your equally half-arsed methods which didn’t work for them. Most definitive fail-safe methods don’t require the get-out clause.

          Oh – and by the way, employing the use of Portable Applications [b]DOES NOT[/b] involve installing ANYTHING because Portable Apps run remotely from a USB stick.

          So, where are all these [i]”ways for installing applications without administrator rights”[/i]– [u]that DO work[/u]? 🙂

          Edited for Compositor Layout

        • #2843127

          I am just waiting

          by ic-it ·

          In reply to You’ve certainly covered all the angles [i](sic)[/i] …

          for the time three months from now.

          At least that was the wait for the last response. 🙂

    • #2840280

      Admin Rights are Important

      by office ·

      In reply to installing programs without administrator’s rights

      It is security my dear friend – Admin rights are required, when the files you install deals with system folders or drivers. Windows is having native security system to manage this – better contact your admin.

    • #2843123

      The Dead Rise after All Saints Day

      by cg it ·

      In reply to installing programs without administrator’s rights

      There should be some voodoo [3DFX lol] magic so that Zombies aren’t rising up from the dead.

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