Open the extracted folder and double-click vlc.exe . That’s it.
You sit down at your workplace computer, a university library terminal, or a shared machine in a public lab. You need to play an .mkv video, listen to an obscure audio format, or stream a network URL. The default media player fails. You try to install VLC—arguably the most versatile media player on Earth—and are greeted by the dreaded User Account Control (UAC) prompt: install vlc without admin rights
file into a folder you have permission to access, such as your directly from the extracted folder. Use VLC Portable Open the extracted folder and double-click vlc
Now go watch that .mkv file—no admin password required. a university library terminal