Activate Google Earth offline? [duplicate]

"I've been looking into the same problem, and have chanced across the article at offlinegoogleearth.blogspot***/

It covers both creating a download cache and making some registry changes to fool GE into thinking you have previously made an internet connection.

Unfortunately I still haven't been able to get the steps to work. I suspect the reg setting is sensitive to the OS, so I need to create a Win2K virtual machine that I can connect to Google, then copy the reg settings to my target machine."