Installation Admin password needed

[ryan]

Hey guys, my new computer (whoms screen is larger than most tv:thumbup being windows 7 you need the admin passwords to install things, and that being my father and he's not gonna give me the password by the hairs of chinny chin chin:lol:.
So is there a way to install orbiter related add-ons without having to use the password. These add-ons are mainly the application installed ones like danstephs brilliant man childs
Ryan

 

[Lucy]

It's very possible because of the way Orbiter works. You don't have to install anything, most addons are simply extracted to the required location. Get yourself a .zip copy of Orbiter, put it in your My Documents folder, and extract whatever addons you like in there. It should work fine without needing any administrative rights whatsoever.

Installers like DanSteph's shouldn't need admin rights to unpack themselves into a folder like that either, but I'm not 100% on that.

 

[Mantis]

It's very possible because of the way Orbiter works. You don't have to install anything, most addons are simply extracted to the required location. Get yourself a .zip copy of Orbiter, put it in your My Documents folder, and extract whatever addons you like in there. It should work fine without needing any administrative rights whatsoever.

Installers like DanSteph's shouldn't need admin rights to unpack themselves into a folder like that either, but I'm not 100% on that.

You are 100% correct so long as the folder is not in a "restricted" area such as the Program Files Folder. The My Documents folder as you suggested will work just fine.

 

[dbeachy1]

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[deltawing777]

You are 100% correct so long as the folder is not in a "restricted" area such as the Program Files Folder. The My Documents folder as you suggested will work just fine.

The problem is the redist. files may not install such as the problem I had. He will need admin

 

[TSPenguin]

Unless the redists are already installed (as it should be). In that case, renaming the orbiter.exe manually will work beautifully.

 

[Lucy]

Unless the redists are already installed (as it should be). In that case, renaming the orbiter.exe manually will work beautifully.

To wit what he said, in a new copy of Orbiter, the "real" Orbiter.exe is "hiding" as Orbiter.bin in the .\Install directory. You may need to turn "Hide file extensions for known files" off to be able to rename it and change the extension from .bin to .exe, then simply copy it into the main Orbiter directory.

Alternatively, could you get him to log in and run the install verification once as an admin just to get it working, then leave you to it? It doesn't seem like an unreasonable request, if you explain exactly what Orbiter is.