Non-Admin
Experiences running as "non-admin"
It seems from reading other posts, such as Keith Brown's Hall of Shame and Hall of Shame Honorees for Admin Rights, that Quickbooks is a sloppy piece of software when it comes to security rights. However, Susan's post really shows how bad it is - just take a look at all the things you have to open up in her first link for standalone. Her Hall of Shame piece lists various KB articles and Intuit's apparent ambivalence toward the whole issue. Why am I bringing this up? Because I used BHO Demon and SpywareBlaster...
I found that you can run Thunderbird as a non-admin user without any difficulties. However, installing or updating extensions will only work if you have admin priviledges. Here's another cmd script to run from Aaron Margosis' MakeMeAdmin console window... Create a cmd script called “thunder.cmd” with one line: @start "" /b "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe"...
I've been intrigued with the idea of non-admin since around the time I went to PDC 2003. While I had dabbled around with VMWare it wasn't until I loaded Virtual PC that I took virtual machine technology for a serious tryout. At the time, it gave me a chance to play around with Longhorn but it wasn't long before I realized it could be a big part of a consultant's toolkit. Before VPC, my average for re-paving a machine was usually 6-12 months. In that timeframe, I would end up adding and configuring...