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At home I've got XP Pro and I run w/o admin rights. It's a pain and my wife hates me for it. We always have to back out of installs, use "run as..." or login as the admin if it's an .msi. Plus I can't double click on the clock in the taskbar for a quick look at the calendar - it always tells me I don't have access.
My machine at work is Vista and it's such a better experience. When I need elevated privileges I get prompted once for credentials, and I never have to back out of an install Vista just prompts me and keeps going. I was running as an administrator before and I'd get multiple prompts from the UAC for the same installation.
I've never had problems running Visual Studio w/o admin rights. Depending on what you're doing the most you need to do is add yourself to the groups created by visual studio when it installs. If you're running cassini you might also need to grant yourself access to the asp.net temp folder.
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Exactly! XP doesn't really support non-admin use. My home PC's wireless connection refuses to work as a non-admin (to be fair, it is the driver's fault, not XP's), so I've given up and use an admin account now. Other applications behave similarly, refusing to remember settings, etc.
My main reason for wanting a non-admin account is to prevent non-tech savvy family members from screwing up the PC (happens occasionally) 
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But it wasn't my decision, they made me a domain admin against my will! They wanted me to be able to reset passwords* when no one else was available  . Of course, on those few occasions that I had to, I could have logged into the administrator account and gotten back out... buuut noooo...
* It also allowed me to add users to the security groups I had set up for my applications.
Back on OpenVMS I had all privileges authorized, but off by default, and I'd only activate what I needed to do a certain task then revert back afterward.
Just another way that OpenVMS is superior to Windows. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Just another way that OpenVMS is superior to Windows.
Fer sure! 
$ set proc /priv=all
$ power command
$ set proc /priv=(noall, tmpmbx, setprv)
<sigh> memories of a great OS...
/ravi
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On our systems, we shortened these to:
$ god
$ man
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Que tal o pasa con las todos des vos.,
  <b></b>Por favor perdon porque eastoy solo un DIOS quines uno del vidas.
Con mucho amores,
Troy
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So even when I put on the software development hat, I have full domain rights.
John
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I am too, but I use my admin account only when I remote into our servers to do network administration stuff. Otherwise I log on in the Power Users group on my XP dev machine.
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John,
Como esta usted. Esta en las tiempos que son aqui ahora, y que son aqui anes tiempos ahoras. Requierdo las todos que yo has decir.
Tengas muy buenos tiepos
Troy
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I have to tinker with the settings and install/uninstall applications all day long. It would be a huge hassle to not log in with admin rights.
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I used to run all the time with admin rights. But this pass month I have created 2 user accounts one for business and one for personal. But I still have to log-on as admin a lot. Mainly because of Visual Studio 2008/2005. I have not yet figured out how to run the Visual Web Developer and be able to copy my updated files to the remote web site from within the program.
I do have one question. If I'm log-on on for all three of my user accounts, 1 as Admin, the other two as local user, and I have one of the local user accounts active, is the Admin account at risk for attach?
PhotoJoe
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I don't know. At home I always use non-admin accounts and only rarely need admin privileges. At work, I've never had a Windows machine without admin privileges so I can only guess.
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I've chosen "run as administrator only when required by the OS (eg installs)".
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I choose this option too. It seems the closest to UAC to me.
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With Vista as with any other Windows you either have admin privileges or not. If you do, you'll get UAC warnings anyway. If you don't you won't be able to install programs without entering credentials for an account with admin privileges.
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Good point. To me the survey seems incomplete without this option.
Steve
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Hi Steve,
IMO too, but not every computer is running a microsoft OS and by far not all of them are running on vista / windows 7. Maybe that's the reason why this option is missing.
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