@Tom 13
Pray tell what MS software *requires* Admin? Typically most software that /appears/ to require admin needs little more than relaxed permissions on a few reg keys or a folder or two.
All my users are running as User, they don't even get to be power user on their own machine. No print driver installs, no changing the screen resolution, nothing administrative. I've had to loosen a few registry and folder permissions for AutoCAD and some other software but I never had a problem with Office 97. Haven't run any Office version since then and OpenOffice needed no special tweaks at all.
In a friends office I administer the users needed local admin to run QuickBooks and that is reason enough that I tell everyone that QuickBooks is the worst designed piece of software I've ever encountered. I believe they've now addressed that in the most recent version.
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