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| Thread ID: 38104 | 2003-09-27 09:31:00 | XP Permission | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 178305 | 2003-09-27 09:31:00 | I've problems in running a number of applications when logging in to XP's limited user account. User accounts have given permission in the registry (right-clicking the software and selecting 'Permissions') - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ .... , but they don't seem to work. I could, however, running them when logging in to 'Power user' accounts. What is the correct way of giving permissions to user accounts? Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 178306 | 2003-09-27 23:25:00 | I think you are looking into this a bit too deep, you don't need to go into the registry to set permissions. I assume you're talking about a stand alone machine with XP installed. Your user accounts can either be set to 'Limited account' or 'Computer Administrator'. If your account is limited you can't give it extra permissions while you're logged into the account - you have to log into another account that has administrator's privileges and go into 'user accounts' in control panel and change the permissions from there. If you just want to run a program from a limited account and you haven't got permissions to run it just right click on the program icon and select 'run as' from the drop down menu and type in the password to the administrators account (or any other account with administrators rights) |
pompeymike (4601) | ||
| 178307 | 2003-09-28 00:37:00 | Considering that you have users in the Power User group, I would assume that you have been using Computer Management, and do not use the Windows 2000 style login (not the 'Welcome' one). If my knowledge is right, then you have XP Professional, however, because I don't use XP Home, then I can't really make a judge as to whether you can run Computer Management in it. But the easiest way to give your user permissions would be to add it to the Power Users group using Computer Management. |
agent (30) | ||
| 178308 | 2003-09-28 00:39:00 | Sorry, I meant "use the Windows 2000 style login". | agent (30) | ||
| 178309 | 2003-09-28 01:42:00 | Some programs try and write to the the windows area of the pc directory structure ie dll files and they do this on the fly. As a limited user you dont have sufficent rights to do this in xp pro you can customise users rights by directory, I am not sure that this can be done in xp home. What you may have to do is find out what files are being written there then login as administrator copy those files to the the windows\whatever\.... directory and see if that cures the problem. The reason I say copy is, these files that are created on the fly on program start are often deleted on the program quitting and if a non administrator logs in he can have use of the files but because of user permissions is unable to delete them. I believe this is only true if you are using NTFS as your file system. This file system is secure (as far as user rights and what they are allowed to do within the directory structure of the operating system). good luck |
beama (111) | ||
| 178310 | 2003-09-28 12:24:00 | Thanks for all the info. I'm running XP Pro using the 'Welcome Screen' with password login. I tried this afternoon by right-clicking the folder /Sharing .. then checked allow network users to change my file (something like that) ... and it works. I don't understand why this 'network users' came into the picture? I just want users of this particular computer to run the program! Anyway, it's working now. Cheers |
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