I noticed today when installing an app from the Microsoft store on my computer running Windows 10 that the app did not need administrator permission to install.
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Normally when installing apps/programs from downloaded executables or installers the UAC window pops up to request my admin password before it is allowed to proceed. Even program updates often involve the UAC pop-up. I prefer things this way since my computer is occasionally used by people who I trust enough to use it, but not enough to install things or change important settings.
This question covers how to prevent users from installing apps from the store, but that's not what I'm wondering. Illegal drivers golf clubs.
What is different about installing an app from the Microsoft store versus other methods that allows the app to install without admin permission? Is it that the installation process is different for those apps, or does the Store itself has special permissions?
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Normally when installing apps/programs from downloaded executables or installers the UAC window pops up to request my admin password before it is allowed to proceed. Even program updates often involve the UAC pop-up.
The group policy that defines this behavior only applies to legacy desktop applications.
Even program updates often involve the UAC pop-up. I prefer things this way since my computer is occasionally used by people who I trust enough to use it, but not enough to install things or change important settings.
This is only true if the process requires permissions the user does not already have. Even installing legacy desktop applications can be granted to a user within the User usergroup.
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What is different about installing an app from the Microsoft store versus other methods that allows the app to install without admin permission?
Universal Windows Programs (UWP) are sandboxed. The permission to install and remove these programs are handled by a different group policy.
Is it that the installation process is different for those apps, or does the Store itself has special permissions?
The ability to launch Windows Store, install/remove UWP already installed on the system, is indeed its own permission seperate from your ability to install a legacy desktop WIN32 application.
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Is there any way to run a set-up or installation wizard without admin rights? I know that you don't need admin rights to download .exe's and .zip's but set-ups and installation guides usually require admin rights.
I'm asking about Windows 10.
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It depends on whether or not the installer does anything that requires administrative rights on the operating system.
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If it does, then no, you can't install it without admin rights whether that's with the account that you're using or running it as an admin or a different user.
If it doesn't, then yes, you can install it without admin rights. I don't know if this is true today, but it was possible to install CC Cleaner under Windows XP or Windows 7 (can't remember which) without admin rights. I'm a Linux Systems Engineer right now and haven't done Windows desktop support in a while but I believe it's possible to install the software for Xerox's printers without admin rights in Windows 10 (at least it was in Windows 7). Some of the other printer software allows it to be installed without admin rights.
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Some packages only need to write data to the unprivileged sections of the User profile. Certain installers will ask whether you want to install for all users or just the current user. With many of these, only installing for the Current User does not require administrative privileges.
Generally, programs written this way do not require significant privileges in the system, and are written to work correctly within the very limited permissions of the standard user directory.
However, this is dependent on the programming of the application and installer itself. You cannot change a software product that requires full permissions and therefore requires administrator privileges to install into a product that does not without changing the code of the application itself and the installer.
So, if a product asks for admin rights to install, you will be generally unable to install it without these rights.
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You can install programs to removable media like SD cards or a flash drive and then execute (run) on this computer in question. You may have to use a different computer for the initial installation and then bring the media to your target computer.
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