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Not if you give the process administrator privileges.

• athom 16y ago
  Which you should never do. An application package's installer might need those priveleges, but the bookkeeping application itself should not. Speaking for myself, I make a point of not running applications with administrator priveleges, except those which have a clear reason. My preferred virus scanner is one example. Installers are another, but Intuit's behavior leaves me much more reluctant to trust a vendor-supplied installer. Fortunately, I don't think those are so necessary, these days...?
  • sid0 16y ago
    The installer is what is probably writing to the unpartitioned space.