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I run a Windows Vista machine where I have Spotify installed. My account is the only account with administrator rights on the machine, which means only I can update Spotify. This means that any other user on the machine won't be able to run Spotify if there is an update that I haven't installed.
Is there any way to circumvent this?
EDIT: I tried setting up a task in the Task Scheduler to start spotify.exe with administrative rights any time someone logged in, which I hoped would allow an update, but it didn't, so I'm open to new suggestions.
EDIT 2: This is now irrelevant. Since a couple of updates ago Spotify has moved to an inline update model allowing all users to update the client.
Why Task Scheduler? Just use the property page under Compatibility and set it to run as admin for all users. That doesn't really give anyone any additional privileges (unless it has a file manager or something since I don't use it) except to update. – Abraxas – 2011-07-23T10:56:41.283
I'm thinking that maybe I could schedule a Task in windows that starts Spotify with administrator privileges any time some other user logs on. Might that work? – cros – 2009-11-19T10:20:27.073
Nope, that failed horribly. – cros – 2009-12-11T12:04:02.463
You should post a bug report to spotify. The application should try to see if it has the rights to update itself before trying to. In the meantime, I don't know how to do. – Loïc Wolff – 2010-01-10T13:29:32.953