Re: Administrator Accounts

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 2/23/06, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> The application is probably not a monopoly, but some large internal
> program that writes a hell of a lot of data to the app's Program Files
> directory or to values in the HKLM hive, and that's why it requires admin
> access.


Ja, most of these applications can be run in restricted user mode by
adjusting the ACL's for their specific program files dir and the
corresponding HKLM/SW/$vendor$ key

Lazy Admins ;-)

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