How to process updates as normal Sage user, not domain administrator

We gave our financial administrator a new computer a few months ago.  When I set up the PC, I installed all the software using my (domain) administrator profile.  I then set up the account for the regular user - the financial coordinator.  She is able to log on with her user profile and do all her Sage processing without any issues.  However, when an update comes in, she cannot process the update, even if we give her adminstrator rights on her pc.  If we enter our administrator user-id and password for her, when the update process asks for an administrator password, the update still won't process.  The only way to do the update on the new pc is to log off her id and log back on as my administrator profile, find the update file and process it. This never happened on her old pc.  How can we fix this so that she can process the updates on her own without having to ask me for assistance?

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    Based on very recent experience, updates will fail unless you start the program with "Run As Administrator" from the shortcut menu - are you doing that?

    It's actually not a recommended practice security wise to give ordinary users administration rights.  Just takes one naive user to click on a link in a phishing email and now you've got Ransomware in your system.

    Not every Sage update is crucial and needs to be installed as soon as it comes out.  Usually I check what the product update contains and it if it's just one of those gimmicky "cloud" updates I tell them they can ignore it for now.  If there's tax table updates or something else core then you might want to update sooner.