Not, that is not true, please try it out on your Windows machine:adrianinsaval wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:48 pm In an ideal world maybe, but regular home users have admin privileges in their computers, these are the people that will unknowingly launch FreeCAD as admin.
There are basically only 3 ways:
way 1:
- log in to a normal user account and start the installer
- what do you get? Is the installer asking you for admin permissions?
- No. (If it does, please tell me since this would be a bug.)
So to run the installer as admin you must use Windows "run as admin" context menu -> so it is your explicit will to run it as admin.
way 2:
- log in to a Windows admin account and start the installer
- what do you get? Is the installer asking you for admin permissions?
- No. Because you are already admin. So no matter how you start FreeCAD from this account, FreeCAD has the same admin privileges as every other program you start from an admin account.
way 3:
- log in to a normal user account
- start the installer using Windows "run as admin" context menu
-> everything the installer does will affect all users, registry entries are made in HKLM and not HKCU etc. To be able to act as admin you gave the installer these rights. The installer invokes under the hood further programs running in admin level as well. Otherwise the installation would not work. To end the admin level, the installer must be ended. But if you use the option to run FC from within the installer of course FC will be run for the admin account (since it was executed from a program running on admin level) and that is how it should work.
So please don't state something is happening unwillingly. Either you explicitly run the installer as admin or not and Windows respects your will. There is no "magic" happening, everything works as it should work.
And please stop to say there are security issues. The user is the master and decides what he wants.