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a user account just for doing updates for existing programs

is there a workaround to create a user account just to be able to do updates for existing programs on windows 7? in windows xp, can put under power users. under users group in windows 7, sometimes can encounter issues in doing some updates.
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never tried, but what about right clicking and run as administrator.  Does it allow power users to authenticate.  Could just be a UAC issue.  We have many pieces of older software that are not UAC aware.
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You can turn off UAC in Control Panel / User Settings.
No. If turned off, setup will not even start (at least not a setup.exe that triggers UAC "at first click"). Try it.
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would prefer not to let the users be able to install any program but just to do updates for existing installed programs... most likely would need to use a 3rd party software like McKnife propose