Admin Account or not

Advised not to run computer in Admin mode, have tried to setup power user
account but comes up as limited, 30 to 40% of all applications fail to run
under limited access security settings very frustrating, "run as" command
doesn't resolve problems, had to resort to running computer as administrator.

Anyone else find this problem and if so any work arounds?

We have run into the same problem. We have also found that a user in the
power group can not install Windows Updates. Is there a setting than can be
changed to allow the user to apply the updates?

"XP Newbie" wrote:

> Advised not to run computer in Admin mode, have tried to setup power user
> account but comes up as limited, 30 to 40% of all applications fail to run
> under limited access security settings very frustrating, "run as" command
> doesn't resolve problems, had to resort to running computer as administrator.
>
> Anyone else find this problem and if so any work arounds?

"Quincy1",

This is "by design," and please allow me to explain why. The Windows Updates
require an End User License Agreement (EULA). While one EULA may handle many of
the updates you have downloaded, there will occasionally be a new one that must
be approved with a given update. The decision was made that a Network
Administrator would have the authority to decide if and when an update installed
on a machine -- whether specifically or via policy. So, if the user account is
not part of the local "Administrators" group on the machine, then they cannot
install updates by themselves. This method is called "pull" technology.

However, there is a glaring exception to this, and that is if you install a SUS
or SMS server on your network. These technologies allow a network administrator
to scan his or her network, discover the vulnerabilities, test a download from
Windows Update in a test environment for evaluation--then after approval, use
this PUSH technology to alert end users of an update. Their boxes configured
for SUS as clients in Automatic Update will download the update with the end
user logged on. In fact, it will reboot the machine if necessary without the
permission of the end user. This grants the security of the network, along with
some measure of control, back to the Network Administrator.

The answer in your case may be to get a SUS server installed on your network.
Here are more details:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...s/default.mspx

Sincerely,

Pat Walters [MSFT]

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"Quincy1" <> wrote in message
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> We have run into the same problem. We have also found that a user in the
> power group can not install Windows Updates. Is there a setting than can be
> changed to allow the user to apply the updates?
>
> "XP Newbie" wrote:
>
>> Advised not to run computer in Admin mode, have tried to setup power user
>> account but comes up as limited, 30 to 40% of all applications fail to run
>> under limited access security settings very frustrating, "run as" command
>> doesn't resolve problems, had to resort to running computer as administrator.
>>
>> Anyone else find this problem and if so any work arounds?