Why running Thunderbird as an administrator?

[TheFaceless98]

Hi,

(Sorry for my bad English :/)

So, there's my question : Why running Thunderbird as an Administrator? Because I saw that, by default, Thunderbird is running as an administrator, is there a specific reason for that or I can just unckeck the case "Run this program as an administrator" in the tab "Compatibility" of the "Property" of Thunderbird?

I ask this question because I want that other accounts (User account in Windows 7) without privilege can acces to their email without the administrator password...

Thanks.

[smsmith]

The only reason you should have to run Thunderbird as an administrator is to allow it to update. However, I believe that you only need to run as an admin once, and thereafter you can update as a regular user. So, you should uncheck that setting.