How to turn off Admin to run staff application?

[jmair]

I installed an app on a teacher laptop. The app is requiring Admin credentials each time it's opened. This means they can't run it. Is there a way around this without making them Admin on the local machine?

[timbo343]

I installed an app on a teacher laptop. The app is requiring Admin credentials each time it's opened. This means they can't run it. Is there a way around this without making them Admin on the local machine?

You could look at usng AppShims via the App Compat Toolkit.

 

I had to do this a couple of years ago with an app that needes admin elevation for it to run.

[3s-gtech]

Where did it install to? You may be able to change their permissions on the application folder or even a particular file in there.

[jmair]

guess It's just an .exe file.

[Olliedawg]

guess It's just an .exe file.

 

Try give them more permissions. Make a new directory, place the .exe in there & give more permissions to that directory

[PotNoodleTech]

It's unusual for an app to need admin permissions just to run.

 

I would inherently not trust the app and would want to look into if it seems safe to use.

 

What app is it?

[OLdMan99]

Disable UAC is an option. Use regedit

[thimon]

Disable UAC is an option. Use regedit

 

Noooooo! How unsecure do you want to be???

[chaplic]

Run procmon

 

Run the app as normal user

 

See what is denied when the app runs (e.g. write access to a folder)

 

Give normal users access to it

 

If the app explicitly demands admin rights this wont help but I've had a few sucesses