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Great timing. I'm looking for solutions to run Siemens Simatic PDM without being a local admin. Installing it with temporary admin rights seems to silently fail.

I'm also trying to use libpcap and USBPcap without local admin. They request UAC every time I open Wireshark to start a new capture session. (Needed for debugging raw Ethernet and serial stacks)

If you have any tips for either of these I am all ears!

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Use npcap and check the settings for the admin-not-required button (forgot the exact name). But generally, accessing raw anything needs elevated rights and should need elevated rights. For a normal user to be able to sniff network and usb traffic is usually a huge security hole and therefore correctly locked away. Not at all comparable to the other cases someone discussed above about some crappy app needing admin to write c:\windows\crappyapp.ico...

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