But as more and more people get access to broadband Internet connections, many developers and companies are pushing for offline installers with new releases. I keep a repository of all the free and purchased software locally, so that I can install them quickly whenever I need to. For me, that defeats the point of having an offline installer. It doesn't use the version that is already there, as part of the EXE file. If it finds it, it will download that first, and then install that version. But when I run it, it tries to contact a Google server to check for a newer version.
not msi package) installer for Google Chrome. I have downloaded the offline (consumer, i.e.
