Re: Myst III, Exile will not launch in Limited User

Hi mcd,

You're most welcome. Glad we could assist!

mcd Wrote:
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| Jim, Thank you. Your assistance was invaluable. Sooner than meddle with the
| registry I used the "runasuser" program which worked like a charm. I elected
| not to incorporate the program into the executable. I'm not sure why the
| option is provided but the program now works without having to change my son
| to an administrator. Thanks again
|
|| Hi mcd,
||
|| Here's a utility to allow Administrators to permit users to run games:
|| Please visit: http://www.palmersoft.co.uk/main.asp?content=runasuser
||
|| If you prefer, here's the workaround, I suggested before the utility existed:
|| Some games will work with limited accounts after they have been installed and
|| run once either using an administrator account, or by temporarily changing the
|| limited user account(s) to an admin account in Control Panel / User Accounts,
|| just for the purpose of running the game the first time in order to be able to
|| install the necessary files and create the keys in the registry that it needs to
|| function, but may not be able to due to the restrictive nature of limited accounts.
||
|| If that mouthful doesn't resolve the issue, use the "Run As.." command instead:
||
|| 1. Click Start / Control Panel / User Accounts / Create a New Account /
|| Name the Account: "able2play" (without quotes) / Next Pick: "Computer-
|| Administrator" & Click "Create Account";
||
|| 2. Click on your new able2play account and Create a Password for it;
||
|| 3. When your limited user wants to play a game that requires Administrator
|| privileges they can Right-Click the shortcut to that game / Click Run As... /
|| "The Following User": able2play and enter the password. Simple as that!
||
|| I know what you're thinking: That defeats the purpose of the limited user account.
|| To secure the "able2play" account so that it can't be used to logon to the computer:
||
|| First you can hide the account so that it won't show up on the Welcome Screen:
|| http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_hide_users.htm (thanks Doug!)
||
|| Next add a shortcut to the windows logoff routine into the RUN key of the
|| able2play registry. I made a reg patch to simplify this process if you wish to use it:
||
|| 4. Logon to the "able2play" account,
||
|| 5. <ONLY RUN THIS PATCH USING THE "ABLE2PLAY" ACCOUNT>
|| Save this patch to your drive and then doubleclick it to install it to your registry.
|| http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/OnlyRunUsingAble2PlayAccount.reg
||
|| or
||
|| *Instead of using the reg patch, click Start / Run / regedt32 / browse to:
|| [HKCU\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] and
|| Click Edit / New / String value / ValueName: logoff / Value data: logoff
||
|| From now on, if anyone logs on with the "able2play" account, the computer will log
|| them off immediately. They will not gain access to an administrators desktop! :-)
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| mcd Wrote:
|| =================
||| Computer = Win xp pro sp2.
||| Dad = Administrator.
||| For security reasons Son = Limited User.
||| Myst III, Exile will only work if Son is made Administrator.
||| Tried loading Myst while making Son administrator and then changing back to
||| limited user and would not launch.
||| Gave Son full control of Myst program file directory and associated
||| shortcuts but still did not launch while son was limited user.
||| Myst requires DirectX 8.0 and Quicktime which are both loaded.
||| Can I make Son a Power User? If so how? Is there other solution?


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