User rights software installation

Choose your device from the boot menu. Step 3: On the following screen, enter a number that is associated with your Windows installation and hit enter. Step 5: Press the y key on your keyboard and hit enter to reset the password for your chosen account. The password for the admin account should now be removed. Yay, you just learnt how to install software without admin rights Windows The last option that you have to install programs without admin rights is to remove the admin account from your PC.

Launch the app and choose the admin account you want to remove from the list. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. Hello, I want to grant one of the help-desk staff a permission allow him to install software on in machine on the domain , In Delegate control in A. How can I accomplish this please Regards. Thursday, June 7, AM. Using Fixed password is not a good practice.

However, technically its possible to create a service account and mark that account not have password expires. Restricted group policy need to applied on a OU which has machine accounts. Thanks, Being Human. Thanks for your feedback. This user account is a Local account, not an administrator account.

I do NOT need instruction on how to change account. The user account is a local account. And should not be able to install a program, however, on this device, it did.

But you apparently don't know the difference between a standard account and a local account. If Chrome is not being installed for all users on the PC, it can install into the user's own account. In that case it doesn't require Administrators permissions to install unless the user wants to make Chrome the default browser. I used to install Chrome this way on my work computer until I was cautioned against it - justifiably, I must admit.

There is a GPO to prevent installing software into the user's own account but I'm not well enough versed to describe it. When you were doing this testing, did you click on NO button, or the little x in the upper right corner to close this window with providing Administrator equivalent credentials???

In my test, I got to this point, and I just clicked on the little x in the upper right corner to close this window, and the Chrome installer continued and installed Chrome and I was able to browse the web - just like if an Administrator account installed it.

I presume there are many now. Please enlighten us all of the many different types and their uses. How do you block users from installing programs? I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. SarahKong Independent Advisor. Have you checked to make sure they are not administrators? If they are an administrator then yes, they can bypass that UAC prompt and install. So go to all user accounts and make sure they are not an administrator. They need to be standard users.