is there a way to download the ea desktop app without admin rights

It wants to install itself into C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop and access the game at their location and your user would need to have permission for your apps to do that.

I imagine there could be some way to get it to work by getting the applications installed in locations you have more access to, like the desktop, but not really something I have had the need to test out.

As for EA Games on Steam requiring Origin that's for the games that arrived on Origin only and then later got on Steam, I believe all newer games that arrive on both at launch wont need Origin/EA Desktop but just need to have the Steam account connected to the EA Account.

You can change the install location of the App to a folder you have access to.

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@Cave_Waverider wrote:

You can change the install location of the App to a folder you have access to.

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@Carbonic  wrote:

It wants to install itself into C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop and access the game at their location and your user would need to have permission for your apps to do that.

I imagine there could be some way to get it to work by getting the applications installed in locations you have more access to, like the desktop, but not really something I have had the need to test out.

As for EA Games on Steam requiring Origin that's for the games that arrived on Origin only and then later got on Steam, I believe all newer games that arrive on both at launch wont need Origin/EA Desktop but just need to have the Steam account connected to the EA Account.

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Did this advice help you out, @BottasHeimfe96? 

Definitely gonna give it a try later. But I kind of doubt it. My laptop has two SSDs in it so I can easily just install it on the secondary drive. But I don’t know if setting the install location to my D: drive will get around it. Last time I tried installing something on my D: drive I still ran into the damned admin block. 

yeah the advice given of changing the install location didn't work. before beginning installation, it still requested admin password.

@BottasHeimfe96 

We can't really walk you through how to bypass parental restrictions, however if there are any concerns your father has around game time our EA Desktop has specific parental features that can track game time and control spending. In the event this is something he's interested in outside of an admin restrictions.

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/ea/ea-desktop/player-controls/

I'll talk with him about that later. he's currently out of town.