title: Are local admin rights required to install Silverlight?
body: <p>Can anyone provide an emphatic answer as to whether local admin rights are required to install the Silverlight 3 client? Most of the Google results say “yes” (with some conflicting answers), but I’ve just tested this on several Win XP machines and installation was definitely successful without admin rights.</p>
  
  <p>Just to be crystal clear, the machines I’ve tested are in a corporate managed desktop environment and users most definitely do not have local admin rights. A “net localgroup Administrators” command confirms they’re not in this group.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone absolutely confirm either way? Thanks.</p>