With the recent release of Microsoft’s AntiSpyware tool and having spent a number of hours cleaning up friends’ computers, I was very happy to stumble across Aaron Margosis’ blog about running as a non-admin.  I took the plunge last week and have found it to be pretty easy to do with the utilities and tips he’s posted.

Some of the issues I’ve had so far, and their resolution, include:

4                  XPlay from MediaFour wants you to be an Administrator to manage your iPod; fixed with makemeadmin.cmd and a rooted Explorer window

4                  Our updated VPN client checks to be sure that the Internet Connection Firewall is turned on, a task which fails if you’re not an Administrator; fixed with makemeadmin and rasphone.exe

If you haven’t already, I encourage you to do the same and remove yourself from both the Administrators and Power Users groups and start running as a regular User today!