Re: Running applications with administrative privileges

RickCast66 <RickCast66@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If I install an application that accesses the hard drive or accesses
the registry, the appication does not function properly with a user
that is logged in that doesn't have administrative rights. How do
you get around this with out providing the user without and
administrative account or using and administrative account and
passowrd to run the application.

This is entirely up to the software developers/vendors. You generally need
to install software as an administrator, but it should allow
non-administrators to *run* it. Most good current-generation software is
written this way, but there are always stragglers. The first thing to do is
talk to/communicate with them. If they've written software that expects all
users to have admin rights, complain loudly to them.

You can make a lot of things run as a limited user when they aren't intended
to, by modifying the appropriate areas in the registry and file system, but
that isn't the first thing I'd do...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx
may help you if you find you have no alternative.


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