Folks, I'm sorry but threads like this really rag my goat...from the NCH FAQs...
How do I can start NHC on restricted user account (accounts without administrator rights)?
To run NHC on restricted user accounts you need the professional version of Notebook Hardware Control
To get around this, you are proposing turning off a very useful security feature which Microsoft put into Windows in attempt to deal with the biggest security flaw in Windows - users using admin accounts for every day usage. What you're saying is effectively "I don't like all this stuff trying to protect me, let me run whatever I want to, regardless of what it does to my system". This leads to people like me wasting untold hours trying to help people out of a hole they dug for themselves.
When you are connected to the internet (nothing to do with the browser) as an administrator with UAC turned off, every server and website you visit (whether via a browser, or some code known or unknown running on your PC) must be trusted. Do you want to take that risk? It's not just about visiting only websites and servers you know because then you trust the entire IT team of all of those servers and sites to have secured their end properly so no-one can inject malicious code and so on.
The correct approach to this is to enable the
true admin account (it's disabled by default in Windows 7) and take your everyday account out of the local admins group (it shoudn't be there anyway). Use the admin account only when needed, for example when installing software you trust which needs admin rights. You don't have to log on/off to do this - you can use "run as".
It takes a little discipline but if you can't be bothered to do this, then please don't moan when things don't work and yor system falls over. if you do the right things, Windows is actually very secure (ignore the b*s* from Linux and Mac folks - the main reason they suffer less is because in general, they do not have this problem as they do not, by default, run as "root" which is the equivalent of admin. Turn root access on and all bets are off. Any code you run, known or unknown, can do whatever it likes to your system with or without your knowledge.
Finally, please don't bleat about Microsoft. They have a tough corner to fight. Prior to Windows NT, there was no notion of admin/non admin and a lot of developers got into the habit of doing whatever they want without regard to security. Microsoft could solve this problem in one go but would wipe out a huge amount of the badly written software out there. This is an industry problem, not a Microsoft one. You can get very close to secure Windows by the advice contained herein. With a little more effort, primarily about turning off undeed services and securing IE, you can get all the way there. By doing this, I've managed to collect only one piece of crapware in the last 7 years and yes, it was my fault, desperate to get a piece of software working - of dubious origin - and ran it as an admin. Only format c: got rid of the ensuing cr*p.
Cheers
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