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I have a Surface 3 with Windows 10. I do not have the administrative password. I tried to install LibreOffice 5 but the install fails after asking for admin privileges.

When I installed Chrome, it also failed, but then told me I could just install for the currently-logged-in user without the admin password; which it did and is working fine.

Is there a way to ask or force LibreOffice to do this same type of install?

Alternatively, is there a way to run LibreOffice on Windows without installing at all?

I'm not asking how to recover an administrative account, this is a company computer and it maintains admin privilege.

Additional Steps: I found a similar question at https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/13191/use-on-windows-without-installing/ where the LO staff suggests extracting the msi and then running the apps, but this doesn't work for me. I am getting a missing dll - MSVCR120.dll.

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You can't do an installation without administrator privileges, but you could use what's called a portable application, meaning it doesn't have to install, it is completely self-contained and can be copied from computer to computer easily. Libreoffice is available as a portable application here

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