At work, I am allowed to install software on my own as long as it doesn't touch the registry or require Administrator rights. I can install things like Total Commander, Eclipse, or Opera USB, for example. However, VirtualBox won't install because it needs Administrator rights. I am NOT looking for a way to get around the Administrator role (meaning a cheat to grab Administrator rights by a back door or such.) I am simply asking if there is a workaround for installing it without having to be Administrator.

I suspect not, but I thought I'd ask. I've considered installing it on a different machine and then transferring the files, but I have no idea what it does in the registry and if that would even work. Thanks and a hat tip.

If you installed it via an.MSI (like the linked questions seems to indicate they did) then technically you didn't install it, the Windows Installer Service did, which runs was the 'LocalSystem' account which has permissions to write to places your user account can't. From MS,: It (the LocalSystem account) has extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. Pantone Color Manager Software Rapidshare Movies on this page.

Dec 7, 2017 - Install Virtualbox Without Admin Privileges On Vista. How to run cmd in admin mode windows 8? (there's an option of local or portable install. I am having the same problem -- in my case, however, the host system is Windows 7. I had figured that the problem was UAC related until I saw that you were having. Aug 30, 2011 - Re: Installing VirtualBox Without Administrator Rights. Post by BillG » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:12 am. I do not know of any program that will install on Windows Vista/Win 7 without admin privilege. BillG: Volunteer: Posts: 3656: Joined: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:44 am: Location: Sydney, Australia: Primary OS: MS. I installed VirtualBox on Windows 7 from an EXE without admin privileges, but now I can't do the following unless I provide admin credentials on my system: Change. I do not know of any program that will install on Windows Vista/Win 7 without admin privilege. Installing VirtualBox Without Administrator Rights.

Its token includes the NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM and BUILTIN Administrators SIDs; these accounts have access to most system objects. Sanubari Jakarta Ganool on this page. If you lunch an MSI under an 'Adminsitrator' account it will prompt you if it needs to make any system changes, unless you have UAC turned off, then it will just do it. The VirtualBox.EXE installer is a wrapper for an MSI. When you get about 2/3rds of the way through the setup wizard it stops and asks if you want to allow the now-unpacked MSI to write to the system (in VirtBox's case, to the public desktop, and to the system network settings, at least).

Ryuichi Sakamoto Rain Pdf. If launched as a standard user, the installer stops at that point and requests Administrator credentials to continue. So if you managed to install it, you did it with Admin privledges, you may just not have been warned (UAC is off) or you just don't remember allowing it when it prompted.:).