How Administrator can allow user to share and use a program

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I am running windows Xp Pack 3 as administrator. But I also use another user
account because I dont want to be on the internet as an administrator for
security reasons. Under my user account I sometimes cannot download and
install programs so I download under the administrator account, but I can't
use these programs under the user account. Is there a way to share these
programs without giving administrative rights to the user account?

Thanks for your help
 
T.Tannourji said:
I am running windows Xp Pack 3 as administrator. But I also use another user
account because I dont want to be on the internet as an administrator for
security reasons. Under my user account I sometimes cannot download and
install programs so I download under the administrator account, but I can't
use these programs under the user account. Is there a way to share these
programs without giving administrative rights to the user account?

Thanks for your help
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Depends on the application. Some will give you the option when
installing to make the app available to all users or just to the user
installing it. Other apps (poorly written ones) will only run with
administrator privileges.

Downloading and installing are two different things. If for some reason
you can only download while logged in as an administrator (?), try
copying the install file to the non-admin account and then installing
from that account.

Or create a shortcut to the app installed under the admin account using
the RunAs command:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows_security_runas_shortcut.mspx?mfr=true
 
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