Warp wrote:

>   What do other programs do? 

Well, most software simply doesn't support being installed by a
user with restricted rights. It's perfectly normal under Windows.
And if you are on a Windows system where you don't have access to
administrator privileges even through elevation, then it's usually
an environment where you shouldn't be installing software anyway.

The concept of UAC is designed to force developers to write
software which *runs* under a restricted user account. It does
not seem to be designed to encourage software which *installs*
under a restricted user account (although that is mainly due
to naming conventions ... if you think of "my documents" as
your "home" directory, what povray does makes some sense).

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