Windows 7: Flash Player automatic update fails due missing admin privilege. UAC issue?

The Windows 7 account I am using has admin privilege.
The automatic update displays an error message pop-up. In English it would be something like: "The installation encountered errors: You need administrator privlige to install Adobe Flash Player. Please log on as an administrator and try again."
At Windows 7 I am using the standard UAC security level settings and I am not willing to lower them. I am also not willing to install a Player update manually for three browsers every other week.
Any solution?
Thanks

Your page http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html mirrors my Flash Player as
at Chrome: 11.2.202.229
at Firefox: 10.3.183.11
at IE: 10.3.183.11
So I manually update once more for Firefox and once more for IE and hope it will update automatically from then on.
Thanks
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