Folder Permissions

Hello,

I'm using XP SP2 home edition with the NTFS filesystem. I've only started
using Windows a week ago, so I'm sure this is very basic, but... this is the
"basics" group, right? I have three users set up, one administrator and two
normal ones. When I tried to install an application as the normal user,
Windows refused and said I needed to do it as the administrator. So I did
that. The problem is that now, when the normal users run the application,
they can't save their settings because all of the application-specific
folders installed by the administrator account are read-only.

When I right-click on the folder and bring up the Properties I see a
checkbox for "Read Only" so I uncheck that and click Apply. A second dialog
box then comes up asking if I want to apply the change "unset readonly" to
just the folder or to the folders and all subfolders and files. I choose all
subfolders and files, click OK, OK on the main dialog box, and everything
appears to succeed. There are no error messages, anyway.

But the normal users still can't save their settings. What's worse, when I
go back to the same folder(s) and look at their properties, the "read only"
checkbox is checked again! What's the solution to this? Ideally what I want
is to keep most of the application read-only but allow write access to the
folders that contain per-user settings information.

I looked around at the support documents, but they're either obsolete or
ignore the separation between "home edition" and "professional," so they talk
about assigning permissions to specific users and groups, which I can't do
with Home Edition. If upgrading is the only solution, I'll do that, but would
rather save my pennies for other things.

Thanks!

Tim

PS Can anyone recommend a good book? I write kernel code for embedded
systems, so I don't need the touch-feely "Wow! This is a window!" sort of
thing. I need to know how to make XP a usable tool, and do the kind of stuff
here that I could accomplish with a few keystrokes in any other OS. Any
suggestions would be very helpful.
.

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