Issue with user permissions for domain users in Windows 10

Question

Domain user "user" needs administrator privileges for many software applications. Prior to Windows 7, administrators could install the software and users could use it without issue. However, in newer versions of Windows 10, users are always prompted for administrator credentials. Is there a solution to this, or is granting administrator privileges the only option?

Answer 1

The function of that WiseCare software is to do system wide cleanup. It's not a user specific application. It's software that looks at all kinds of files and registry entries. I see where it appears to have functionality to uninstall other apps and also to manage the firewall settings.

Administrator level access will be needed for that app to function.

It also installs some boot time service. But what I don't see is an "execution time" service. If the app was designed to execute as "normal user", then it would need 2 components. The first would be a GUI whose executable runs under the context of the user and a second "worker" executable that runs under the context of either the system account or an administrator account. That second process would have access to all files. registry, etc, so that it could do the cleanup.

It looks like the design is that it expects the GUI user to have admin access so that it can function.

Answer 2

hello there,

the User Account Control or UAC prompts at every step of installation

Type uac into the Windows Start menu.

Click "Change User Account Control settings."

Move the slider down to "Never Notify."

Click OK and then restart the computer.

or

Hit the Windows key and type Control Panel in the search bar. Open the best results.

Set View by as Category. Select the System and Security option in the menu available.

Click Security and Maintenance.

Click on Change User Account Control settings.

Drag the selector in the screen to the bottom to the Never notify option and click OK.

And see if it helps,

Thank you

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Answer 3

Can you provide an example application that exhibits this problem? Is there a download link for this app somewhere that we could run some tests?

Personally, I don't see this as a Windows configuration issue per se. It all depends on how the developer built the installer and what the application program itself does.

Applications like Notepad++ and 7-Zip should not require administrator privileges to execute. Now if you try to access some file/folder that does not grant users access, then yes, you would need to provide administrator credentials,

If you are installing a really old version of a program that was built prior to UAC becoming mainstream, then maybe it assumes that "every user has full control over everything", and did not bother to distinguish between administrator and "plain old user" access.

Your solution is probably; contact the software developer and ask them to fix their installer.

Answer 4

Maybe try to assignin user to the "Power Users" group. I think that can solve this problem in your case. Check it out. :)

Regards