Sharing applications with multiple users

From: Deviator (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:41:43 -0800

I recently upgraded to XPpro from 2000pro. I have set up
4 accounts.

2 administrator
1 guest
2 limited users

Now like I said I upgraded so all the software and files
that were from my 2000pro install are all still there. I
logged on as a limited user and tried to access Word
2000. It started an Install of word 2000. I had already
installed word from the administrator account in 2000pro.

I noticed that most of my programs are doing this same
thing.

How do I resolve this issue and allow all my limited user
accounts to access the software that is already installed?

Thanks in advance.

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