Bypass Admin's lock on Program Installation

[Toasty64]

I want to install the Xvid codec on my PC so I can watch my TV shows (not porn, I actually have morals) on my PC, but my PC's admin has windows XP set so that only he can install programs/etc. I was wondering if there was a way to bypass this so that I may install the codec.

I fully understand if it's against the rules or anything to ask this, so if it is, then nevermind.

[EDIT] Also, I have the DivX player installed on my computer, and I know it hasn't been locked down by the admin, but it just keeps saying "DivX PLayer has encoutered a problem and must shut down" whenever I try to start it up.

[contrex]

You call it "my" PC, but it sounds like it is really your school's PC or your employer's PC, or even if not I expect there is a good reason why you are not allowed to interfere with settings, like for example you are eleven years old.

[Toasty64]

It's our family's PC, my dad's the admin, and I'm 15. My dad only locks program instalation because he's paranoid about spyware and the like. So can you help in this matter, or is it forbidden?

[Dark Blade]

Well, you COULD just ask your dad to lower the settings for an hour so you can download the file...

If there was a way to bypass admin settings, school computers wouldn't be safe. I think that you'd have to be a professional hacker to have a chance of doing this.

Overall, the answer is no.

[contrex]

It's our family's PC, my dad's the admin, and I'm 15. My dad only locks program instalation because he's paranoid about spyware and the like. So can you help in this matter, or is it forbidden?

Well, your dad sounds like a sensible guy, not "paranoid" at all. If many of the posters on here were sensible like your dad, they wouldn't have the problems that they do. Probably he will agree to let you do the installation if you ask him nicely.

Maybe you should try to get a saturday job and/or beg for bits and peices and build yourself a PC out of unwanted components? Then you can be your own admin.

[Toasty64]

I'm saving up fro my own PC at the moment, but as for my dad being paranoid, there's more to it. If you knew the details, you'd side with me without question. D:

But this little feature is particularly annoying when I want to download stuff like a Java JDK since I'm a self-taught web developer/programmer.

[contrex]

I'm saving up fro my own PC at the moment, but as for my dad being paranoid, there's more to it. If you knew the details, you'd side with me without question. D:

But this little feature is particularly annoying when I want to download stuff like a Java JDK since I'm a self-taught web developer/programmer.

Toasty64, I was a teenager myself once, and my father was particularly hard work!!! As in especially weird, not just normal "teenager's dad" type weird, either. So I do understand.

[Toasty64]

I just wish I could earn more money than $10 a week. One more year and I can get a real job. Just one more year...

[contrex]

I know it seems like forever. Still, to pass the time there are always girls...

[street1 (RIP)]

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You can pick up and old keyboard ,mouse ,and monitor almost anywhere.

I must add that is better than my computer and all is fine here.