Greetings,
There's a few things you can do, of course circumventing IT's restrictions probably isn't the
greatest idea but that's up to you...
If the computer has been kept up-to-date and has the typical bunch of Microsoft applications
what you can do is install Messenger on a PC where you do have rights (say at home) and then
copy over the \Program Files\MSN Messenger folder from that PC (say to a USB key) and then
just copy that to your work PC and run it.
This is best with version MSN Messenger 7.5, not Windows Live Messenger 8 as WLM has lots of
new dependencies that 7.5 didn't have. You can find 7.5 here if you need to install it to
get the files:
http://microsoft.com/downloads/detai...b-4fcef7485c14
Another option is to just use another client which doesn't use the standard Windows installer
or is available in just a ZIP format. A few of these clients include:
Miranda (just download the ZIP archive version, extract and run):
http://www.miranda-im.org/download/
Gaim (when asked, install to somewhere other than Program Files, like your Desktop):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g...1.exe?download
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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources -
http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Attack Mom" <Attack
> wrote in message
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>I work at a large company and am not an administrator. Anyone know how I can
> install the latest version of MSN Messenger somehow. The version on the
> computer is under 5.0 and everytime I try to update, I get an error message
> stating that I cannot install as I'm not an administrator.
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