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Question

dowloading issues

Aug 10, 2013 8:19AM PDT

How do I download the software itself? I cannot install the "downlaoder/installer" on the school computers in the first place, secondly, I do not want to install it on this machine, but on my own personal machine.

How is that --- is it even possible to download the setup file to a thumbdrive? SO that I can later install it on my persmoanal machine?

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Clarification Request
What are...
Aug 10, 2013 8:26AM PDT

you trying to download? Also, what is your schools policy on downloading.

Dafydd.

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What was I dowlnloading
Aug 10, 2013 2:49PM PDT

To tell the truth, I have forgotten, and unfortunately,, the browser history cache was purged.

School policy is pretty much "don't do anything illegal". And forget installing software - or plugins.

The problem remains (and this is not the first time I have had this issue) is that I will find myself wanting to download software for another machine. I do not want to install it on the machine I am logged in from, but another one. Yet CNEt apparenlty wants to first install a dowloader, then run the setup program. How do I just get the setup program, standing alone, downloaded to a "portable" drive?

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Personally...
Aug 10, 2013 5:12PM PDT

... I would stay away from CNET downloads and its installer. Too many potential hiccups for the unwary.

Your situation still isn't clear. Are you some school 'computer admin' or 'Tech official'? Or are you a pupil/student who wants to install software on other computers at school without permission?

If you have forgotten what you downloaded, why the question?

Mark

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Is simple question - at least I thought it was.
Aug 11, 2013 2:53PM PDT

>Your situation still isn't clear. Are you some school 'computer admin' or 'Tech official'? Or are you a >pupil/student who wants to install software on other computers at school without permission?

Lets take theis one step at a time.

I am a student at a schoool. I am not an employee. I am not a school comptuer admin. I am a student. I am behind liberal study faculty for status and access to computers.
I use the school's computers in a Computer Lab.
I am not a Student Computer Admin, a Tech offical nor even a "lab monitor" with administrative access. I am a student.
Students are not permitted to install software. Remember, I am a student. As a student I am not permitted to install or upgrade software.

Because of conversation with the instructer, during a break from using the School's Computers in the Campus Computer Lab (recall, I am merely a student) I searched for time managment/documentation software, for future use on my home computer. Not well, for use on my home computer - not thecomputers at the School, but my own personal private computer, which is not the one I am sitting at when I make the search. That is a school computer. I do not have admin access to that computer. I am a student. Students do not have admin priveleges on School Computers.
Search results eventually pointed to CNET for source files.
CNET apparently wants to install a downloader, to install the setup file for the program I was after. Which I cannot do, because - remember - I am a student, and do not have the permissions to install soffware on the school's computer. (Not to mention the small, minor and totally irelevant fact that the school uses Win7 and I don't.)

So, how do I download just the setup program for the software I want (and only that specific setup program), so that I may take it to my own comptuer, regardless of whether it is in another room, another city, another state, or on a facility orbiting a planet in another star system?


>If you have forgotten what you downloaded, why the question?

It is a generic meta question. It should not matter if I recall the exact software title, when I have this problem with many software titles, of various applications, of various subject: time managment, database managmeent, games, simulations, vector analysis, or probability studies. How do I get the setup program for the software, in order to transfer said setup file to the actuall machine I want to install the software upon? A machine which may not be the one I am logged into CNET from.


Mark

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A workaround.
Aug 11, 2013 5:40PM PDT

Why not use your home computer to download this installer file?

Don't bother with the school computers, visit the web page you found at school on your home computer and download the file.

Remember, I suggested you avoid Download.com's installer files. They are not for those who are inexperienced.

Mark