Installing as limited user

I want to install Second Life as a limited user because I want to run it at school and I do not have administrator access there. How do I do that? Is it possible to install it on a USB drive from a computer where I have admin access and copy over from there?

Unless you have really bad technicians i doubt you will be able to install it

You do have to be the administrator on the machine to install Second Life (or most software).

Why? I haven't seen anything in the installation that requires admin rights.

From what I understand, in most cases, installing programs with registry settings, etc. requires administrator rights. In many office/school setups, the reason the computer's using a limited account is because you're not supposed to install software on it. ;^)

From my experience writing installers, you only need administrator rights if you are doing at least one of the following:
1) Installing fonts in the fonts folder
2) Writing to a registry key outside of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree
3) Installing anything to the %SYSTEM% directory
4) Doing something (like checking for a hardware dongle) that requires direct, low-level access to hardware

If you're writing a well-behaved application that sits in the "Program Files" directory, stores preferences in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree, writes data only to the "%USER%\Application Settings" directory, and doesn't try to access the computer hardware directly, you shouldn't need administrator rights at any time.

Nevermind. I found that it worked just by copying over the installed SecondLife folder from my laptop.

I just wish I didn't need to quit the game, run again as Administrator, wait for the update to complete, quit and re-run the game as my user account every time there's a patch =/