How to Find Offline Installers for Windows Applications
By on June 30th, 2010

internet-tools-ico There are several Windows applications that have online web installers. Web installers are mainly used to collect analytics data or to show product advertisements during installation. Web installers are very small, and each time, users need to connect to the internet and download full installation files. Furthermore, there’s a chance of malware infection if the downloads originate from untrusted sources.

Popular Windows software like Live Writer, Yahoo Messenger, Google Chrome, Skype and utilities like .NET Framework and Java Runtime Environment all use web installers.

Here we have two methods to get the full installer for these applications.

  • 1. URL Snooper: URL Snooper is a small Windows application with the ability to sniff network packets and provide links to data opened in the background. Many people use this application to download streaming videos. The special data sniffing feature of URL Snooper can also be used to download full offline installers.

Yahoo Messenger Offline Installer using URL Snooper

Download URL Snooper here

URL Snooper was developed by a member of DonationCoder.com, a community backed website devoted to the Windows software development. You have to register in their forum to get a free 6 month license key of all products including the URL Snooper.

After installation, open URL Snooper and click on advanced mode from the file tab. Now download any web installer and start the online installation. Move down through the links appearing on the application interface.

Copy the offline installer link as shown above.

  • 2. From temporary files: This method is pretty popular among techies. Press Win+R, enter %temp% and search for any .exe files.

yahoo messenger full installer from temp folder

This should be done immediately after completing online download of the application. Sometimes the installer deletes all temporary files after completing installation. So make sure to copy the full installer and proceed to installation.

We have collected the offline installers of a few applications using this method.

Yahoo messenger 10 offline installer: download

Skype full installer: download

Google Chrome 5 standalone installer: download

Article by Smartin (www.smartin.in)

Smartin is a blogger, web designer and photography enthusiast from India. You can follow him on Twitter@smartinjose

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  • http://dtechwiz.blogspot.com Karthik Prabhu

    Thanks for this great article Smartin. URL Snooper is a really nice app. It is really useful for downloading offline installers of certain apps like Yahoo! Messenger. Online Installers can be really bugging.

  • Rouhollah

    thank you so much.
    these helped me!
    thank you again.

 
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