Many Windows users have asked for a version of Mendeley Desktop which can be installed and updated on systems without administrator rights. There is now acustomized installer(this is for 1.5.1, but it will update to 1.6 after install) which will install and run Mendeley Desktop from your home...
Side note:If the PDF documents you want to import to Mendeley are not openly accessible but you have access to them via your institutional network/proxy, there is a simple way of adding the document directly to Mendeley Desktop. Simply drag & drop the link to the PDF file and Mendeley Des...