Does FrameMaker really need admin rights?

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

Our IT department wants us to switch to Windows 11. Users should not have admin rights.

Here in this forum participants always comment that admin rights are needed, especially for the Adobe PDF printer.

However, Adobe does not mention admin rights in their system requirements:

https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/help/fm_system_requirements.html?promoid=XKMMH7MW&xProduct=&mv=ot...

What is correct? Do I need admin rights or not?

Best regards, Winfried

[Jeff_Coatsworth · Accepted solution]

I think you really only need admin rights to install FM, not to run it - I'm still running FM11 on a new Windows11 machine, and I do have full rights to my drives, but I'm not launching it as an admin.

[Winfried Reng]

Sometimes people comment here in this forum that their Adobe PDF printer driver got lost and they had to repair the Acrobat or FrameMaker installation. (This happened to me as well, but only once.) Wouldn't I need admin rights here as well?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Yeah to reinstall it or repair it, sure - but not running it day-to-day.

[Winfried Reng]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you very much for your info! I hope to get a test laptop with Windows 11 to check this.

Then I will mark your post as correct.

Best regards, Winfried

[Winfried Reng]

My test laptop with Windows 11 had already admin rights. Therefore I could not test what would happen, when I would not have admin rights. AT least with admin rights everything worked.