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Installation issue

talkingcatstalkingcats Posts: 0
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Hi I have just installed DAZ Studio for ther first time on my Windows 10 pro box, version 1909.  I run several user accounts on my box, but only one account has administrative privileges, which I call SuperUser.  Like the old Administrator account in Windows NT.  This is for obvious security reasons.  Anyway I install DAZ under user Stephen and it asks for elevated privileges to install.  Fair enough, I think.  Except unlike 99% of Windows applications it has installed all its apps, links etc, under user SuperUser not Stephen!!   Well I am not prepared to run DAZ in an account which has permanently elevated administrator rights as it is a huge security vulnerability should the account be compromised by malware.  I haven't yet tried moving the links to the Stephen user account to see if they will work properly when executed from there  Will they? 

If it truly is the case that DAZ must run under a user with admin privileges then goodbye, I am not interested.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

Comments

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    I don't actually use DS  but I have always understood that it should NOT be installed with elevated rights.

  • talkingcatstalkingcats Posts: 0
    Chohole said:

    I don't actually use DS  but I have always understood that it should NOT be installed with elevated rights.

    Thank you for your reply.  That would certainly make sense.  I have thought of unsinstalling it, granting temporary admin rights to user Stephen, installing it again and then removing the admin rights.  But I was hoping first that experienced usesr could give me some clues as to the best strategy.  This really feels like going back to the bad old days of Windows XP when most application software needed admin rights to run properly. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,795

    You should not "run as administrator", but Install manager will ask for permission (UAC prompt).

  • talkingcatstalkingcats Posts: 0
    Richard Haseltine said:

    You should not "run as administrator", but Install manager will ask for permission (UAC prompt).

    Yes, I know.  But the point is, it it installs the application in the administrator account, not the account I want to run it from!!!  Even if I do not run the app as administrator there is still a major vulnerability by being logged in as a user which has admin privileges.  I want to run the application from an account with standard privileges.  This is not an issue with the vast majority of Windows programs.  It hasn't been a problem since Windows XP.  I am flabbergasted that DAZ studio is making it an issue! 

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