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I use a machine where I don't have administrator rights. I've been able to run programs without admin rights by extracting the program's .zip file to a directory I have created on my desktop. However, I can't find such a .zip file for Visual Studio.
Is there a way to install Visual Studio Community Edition without administrator rights?
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For reasons of security, the administrator permissions are required when installing Visual Studio.
VS Code provides both Windows user and system level setups. Installing the user setup does not require Administrator privileges as the location will be under your user Local AppData (LOCALAPPDATA) folder. User setup also provides a smoother background update experience.
Search up "(name of the software you are installing) install" in a search engine to get fast results. Download the app installer onto your laptop. Drag the installer to your "Documents" folder. Make a folder to store the installer and other related files that will help with the installation.
You must be an administrator on the computer where you want to install Microsoft 365, Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013.
Practically no. Visual Studio (Express and above, excluding VS Code) consists of multiple components that must be installed as admin, and will be required for the app you're debugging to be available as system-wide component. It might be possible to use ThinApp or its equivalent, but ThinApp can't even work with VS 2010 and it was by far the best of its class.
A (resource intensive) alternative to get VS on any PC will be packaging a VM with VS installed, either creating one yourself or get a ready-made ones. VirtuaBox is available as portable fork if you can't even get Hyper-V tools installed. But this still require kernel drivers installation, which means at least one-time admin access. Depending on your internet connection & budget, it might be more practical to setup a VPS with VS installed, then remote there.
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