"This wiki page is dedicated to the thousands of applications that break when run as non-admin. I've moved the HallOfShame here so that people can add their own anecdotes. Please just follow the convention of using the HOS suffix for each HOS wikiword. Thanks! Please do take the time to notify the company of the problem. You can make a difference."
I always recommend that users run with a non-admin user account to avoid being overtaken by malware. I get a lot of push-back from users and administrators, and with good reason in some cases, the applications just don't run unless you have administrative rights. Please follow up with your vendors and ask them to fix their code.
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Please follow up with Microsoft and tell them to fix their code. As Windows does not make it easy for non-admin users to install programs local to their user. Windows (even XP) is a single user operating system hacked (barely) into a multi-user system. It has hacked permissoins and hacked user management. I don't think its just the vendors.. its both