Usually, we come across Windows applications that have online web installers. Web installers are mainly used to collect analytics data or to advertise things during installation. According to Wikipedia, “Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.” Web installers are very tiny, plus a user has to connect to the internet and download full installation files. Besides, there’s a chance of malware infection if the downloads belong to untrustworthy sources.
Trendy Windows software like Live Writer, Yahoo Messenger, Google Chrome, Skype and utilities like .NET Framework and Java Runtime Environment all use web installers.
There are two ways to get full installation for these applications.
METHOD-1
- 1. URL Snooper: URL Snoopers are small Windows applications that have the capability to identify network packets and provide links to data opened in the background. A lot many, use this application to download streaming videos. The special data sniffing feature of URL Snoopers can also be used to download full offline installers.
- The first ever URL Snooper was developed by a member of DonationCoder.com, a community backed website devoted to the Windows software development. To participate, one has to register in their forum to get a free 6 month license key or trial version of its products together with the URL Snooper.
- After installing it completely,
1.Open URL Snooper and click on advanced mode from the file tab.
2.Now download a web installer and start the online installation.
3.Move down through the links appearing on the application interface.
- Copy the offline installer link as shown above.
2nd METHOD
By temporary files: This method is pretty popular among techies.
- Press Win+R, enter %temp% and search for any .exe files.
- This should be done as soon as possible, after completing online download of the application. Occasionally the installer deletes all temporary files after completing installation. So just assure that the copy of full installer is safe and proceed to installation.Here’s a collection of offline installers of a few applications using this method.
