Re: Group Policy to allow user to run program without bring local admi

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (firstnamelastname_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:50:58 -0500

"Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
news:uMBwI062EHA.1472@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> We have some software, ie Payroll, bank software, that require
>> the user to have local adminstrator rights...not to just install but
> actually
>> run. A few will let me take them down to Power User but there are still a
> few
>> that will not run unless they are a local admin. I want to be able to
>> take
>> away the admin and power user rights and let them return to being a
>> restricted user.
>
> Such software should be replaced -- it is incorrectly designed
> but the reality may be you cannot do this at this time.
>
> Basicly you need to make the users local administrators of their
> own machine (probably.)
>

Or you can give the user account access to the registry keys the software is
trying to access/alter/change. Bu I agree, it would be much easier and more
secure if there's an updated version of the software that will run under the
current operating systems. 

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