"Run as Administrator" - still necessary?
Rosemont_Line
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On a whim, I was looking back through an old thread for something minor, and I was reminded that the standing advice for installing CC3 has (as far as I recall) always been to "right-click and run as administrator" when running the installers. That's for CC3/CC3+ itself as well as for any annuals, add-ons, etc.
I installed CC3+ and a few annuals on my new Windows 11 PC a few days ago, but as I sit here now I cannot remember if I actually did the "right click - run as admin", or if I just hit Enter to open each installer. So I'm wondering: how important is it these days to run as administrator when opening the installers? Is it a big deal if I forgot to? For that matter, why is it recommended to do so in the first place? I can't recall the reasons.
On a similar subject: on my old PC, I had the CC3+ shortcut set up to run the program as administrator each time it was opened, even after it was installed. I assume there was some reason at some point why I did that but again, I don't recall. So is THAT necessary? Or does it not matter if it's run as admin when the program is being used?
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I installed on my new PC and laptop recently. Windows 11. None of which required Admin permissions.
The right click -> Run as Admin is old legacy advice which doesn't make a difference at all with modern installers. All modern program installers automatically make themselves admin if needed, this is why you see that UAC prompt that asks you if this installer should be allowed to make changes to your computer, what that really means is that the installer have just requested admin permissions.
You can see it on the program icon for the installer if it will run automatically as admin or not. Look for the blue/yellow admin shield on the icon:
As for running CC3+ itself as an admin, that should be completely unnecessary. The old CC3 needed it because it kept all it's data files in the installation folder where normal users can't write, but CC3+ changed that by introducing the data folder and sets it up with write access for all users.
Sounds like it would be fine either way then (which Monsen confirmed below). And on that note...
Okay good so I wasn't crazy, lol. So it WAS a real thing, but just stopped being important a while back. That makes sense and what I thought might be the case, but wanted to be sure. Thanks!