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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: John Beckett
date: 2006-04-24 20:03:48
subject: Re: firefox install requires admin rights?

From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message news::
> >>  The elevation is only needed to perform tasks that require an
> administrator.  These simply are not common.
>
> They are plenty common if your job title is administrator..

You could log on as a user then use runas to run a command prompt window.
When you need to do some admin, run the tool from that window (e.g. dsa.msc
for Active Directory Users and Computers). I'm not saying this is easy, but
it's better than web browsing as an admin.

John

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