>> Do we really need to allow students to bypass the security restrictions
>> imposed by the school administrators?
>
> Yes.
>
> Or maybe it is workers who want to Pov in their lunch hour.

Sorry, but that's absolute rubbish.  There is a system in place to restrict 
the installation of programs for many valid reasons, it's not up to software 
writers to find devious and bizarre ways to bypass it (eg by installing into 
My Documents!).  One obvious example is software licensing, if an 
organisation needs to track the licenses of all installed software for 
audits then POV is going to slip through the net and cause problems. 
Another issue is when a user gets concerned when POV installs without asking 
for Admin rights, they are not expecting that.

There might even be a legal issue somewhere with the POV license, if the 
machine administrator has not given permission for it to be installed, 
IANAL.

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