Re: Unprivatize files???

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"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mr. Z wrote:
Windows XP Pro SP3 with latest patches.

When I added a p/w to one of my admin accounts, XP
asked if I wanted to make its files private-and I answered
Yes. Now my standard user is having issues running
one of the apps intalled by the admin. How can I "unprivatize"
the files back in the admin account?

Malke wrote:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/undoprivate.htm - MVP Ramesh - How to
undo "Make this folder private" option"

Mr. Z wrote:
Thanks, but which files - c:\documents and settings\user of course,
but anywhere else?

Whatever folders you made 'private'.

If you only made *your*files private - then it is just c:\documents and
settings\<your username> and all subdirectories (yes - you need to
propogate
the settings to all folders/subfolders.)

If you have manually changed the permissions on other folders/files - only
you would know this.

Given what you have - your problem is unlikely to be due to the fact that
you 'privatized the account' (not that you needed to that I see - the
built-in administrator profile is not going to be able to be accessed by a
standard user account (another administrative level, sur, a standarduser,
no.))

- What application(s) (specifically) is your standard user having issues
running that was intalled by the admin?
- What trouble (specifically) is the standard user having with this app?

Many older applications (or badly written ones) do not function well
without
administrative rights. Many of them can be 'worked around' by changing
the
permissions to their installation directories and/or their registry
entries.
Some have 'common areas' they also need access to.

"RegMon" and "FileMon" come in useful when trying to figure out what an
application accesses when ran - so you know what all the users of a
computer
(and that app) need permissions to in order to properly run said
application. Another way is usually to upgrade the application to a
version
that has been better written (either in the way it works or the way it
installed or both) to work in a multi-user/multi-level enviroment.

If the applications you are trying to run needs access to the user profile
(the only thing that is 'marked private' in the manner described -
c:\documents and settings\<username>) for the administrative user
account -
that is a badly written/single user application and you are not fixing
anything, but working around the short-comings of the application and
sharing the same stuff (likely settings) with all users of the computer.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html



"Whatever folders you made 'private'."
Well that's the thing - "I" didn't manually make any folders private,
XP did - if you read my OP.

I'll check RegMon and FileMon to see if they'll help in my case.



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