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Running google earth offline

Anyone know if it's possible to run google earth with it never seeing the internet?

I have a dbCache.dat file from PC A that's 2Gb in Size, I also have the dat.Index file that goes along with it. Now PC A has been on the internet before obviously. I then disconnected it and I can use google earth offline with the dbCache file.

However , I have a second PC that I'll call PC_B. PC_B installed google earth via a CD that the executable was downloaded to. I then went and placed the cache file and index file in the appropriate spot. However, when opening up google earth I am told that it can not connect to the Google Earth servers to activate the account.

Obviously I never want to put this machine on a networked connection. Never want it to access the internet period. So the question remains, can I activate google earth offline?

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I've been looking into the same problem, and have chanced across the article at http://offlinegoogleearth.blogspot.com/

It covers both creating a download cache and making some registry changes to fool GE into thinking you have previously made an internet connection.

Unfortunately I still haven't been able to get the steps to work. I suspect the reg setting is sensitive to the OS, so I need to create a Win2K virtual machine that I can connect to Google, then copy the reg settings to my target machine.

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