We have the LeapFrog Scout and Tag Reader and I did have to download the software on to my computer. Maybe you can just delete it after you are done with the setup?
As long as your firewall or virus protection isn't psycho like ours is. Drove me nuts trying to actually set it up b/c our protection kept alerting it as a virus. Annoying. Otherwise it was painless.
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