That's what I do if it's an option, but I think I've run into some software where that didn't work and I had to actually log into my admin account to install it

That's what I do if it's an option, but I think I've run into some software where that didn't work and I had to actually log into my admin account to install it. (But not log out of my regular one; more than one account can be logged in at once.) I can't recall what software that was, though.