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Home Updater: Our Free Product for Consumers => Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions => Topic started by: patch81552 on February 26, 2018, 10:05:28 AM

Title: Administrator Permission?
Post by: patch81552 on February 26, 2018, 10:05:28 AM
Why does PatchMyPC require administrator permission when starting?
Title: Re: Administrator Permission?
Post by: Support Team (Patch My PC) on February 26, 2018, 12:41:03 PM
Because in order to update and install applications most install per-system and requires administrator. We also scan the HKLM registry to find installed apps.
Title: Re: Administrator Permission?
Post by: patch81552 on February 26, 2018, 03:21:02 PM
My question still stands.

You do not need admin permission to search the Registry.

If I have changed the options and only want to be shown which updates are need, there is no need for admin permission.

I take care to run my Windows logins as a standard user, not as admin - and PatchMyPC always needing admin permission seems to be at odds with that. 

Yea, I know - if I don't like don't use it.  But PatchMyPC is a valuable app that has chosen the least secure path when the program is first loaded.  Maybe consideration might be given to creating a version of PatchMyPC that does not initially need admin permission?

Thanks.



Title: Re: Administrator Permission?
Post by: Support Team (Patch My PC) on February 26, 2018, 06:44:16 PM
Installing many apps that install per-system and saving our options to HKLM does require admin rights.
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