We hear so much in these forums that it is more secure to run without administrator privileges. So I have been a very good boy and demoted my original account and now normally run without admin privileges.

Typically, when installing software, an authorization box pops up which requires an Administrator’s name and password. Normally, the only difference between doing this within an Administrator account and a Standard account is that the Administrator’s name is automatically filled in when using an Admin account but must be manually entered when running in a Standard account — not much difference.

But in this case — installing the Canon driver and software package — an Admin account is mandatory. Since this Canon package has just been released this month, I wonder if all the new installers will all be like that, or possibly is this a change with the latest OS X update?