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Y'all joke, but when that 'task' is run through process monitor, we see it's trying to overwrite a DLL in system32, create a directory at root of %systemdrive% or cache some data in the Program Files application itself, instead of utilizing ProgramData or Appdata properly.
When applications fail these simple practices and demand local admin, they shouldn't touch your network.
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LUA Buglight is also good for documenting why a program needs admin when it shouldn't.
After that, you just write an admin shim with the app compatibility toolkit and just add write perms to the necessary folders.
...Unless it's system32. Then your software request can die in a fire, and I'm forwarding the info to your boss (and mine) before you can complain to them.
Can you please explain to the laity what the problem with System32 is? So we know why to avoid it
It is the beating heart of Windows itself, the nuclear reactor at the heart of the facility. And much like with a nuclear reactor, you don't screw around in the core unless you have a damn good reason.
Doing so at random is a good way to make both go kaboom.
So is it like the kernel but for windows?
More of a combo of kernel and coreutils, but yeah. Pretty much.