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Are local admin rights required to install Silverlight?

Can anyone provide an emphatic answer as to whether local admin rights are required to install the Silverlight 3 client? Most of the Google results say “yes” (with some conflicting answers), but I’ve just tested this on several Win XP machines and installation was definitely successful without admin rights.

Just to be crystal clear, the machines I’ve tested are in a corporate managed desktop environment and users most definitely do not have local admin rights. A “net localgroup Administrators” command confirms they’re not in this group.

Can anyone absolutely confirm either way? Thanks.

+3  A: 

Yes, local administrative rights are required.

Jeff Wilcox  2009-10-07 02:03:10
So any idea why it installs successfully on XP without local admin? I'm just seeing something different to what I keep reading.
Troy Hunt  2009-10-07 02:05:09
It's possible that the corporate rights management system permits installations of Microsoft-signed software, or similar measures...
Jeff Wilcox  2009-10-07 23:28:50
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Admin rights are required. By default XP users are local admins.

Michael S. Scherotter  2009-10-07 02:30:51
In the circumstances I've described above, users do not have admin rights. It's a corporate managed desktop environment with limited user rights.
Troy Hunt  2009-10-07 02:56:47
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so can i still install silverlight without admin privilege and how if it is possible

jhunpan  2009-12-21 07:25:44
Apparently not unless as Jeff suggested above your corporate rights management permits it as it does in my case.
Troy Hunt  2009-12-28 06:51:28

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