Re: running "old" WIN98/Me programmes with XP: specific questions

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:18:42 +1000

Get regmon and filemon from www.sysinternals.com and find out what your program wants. A XP or 2000 Power User is the same as an NT User. 

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"Paul (Bornival)" <Paul (Bornival)@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B0BE21CD-4378-44C8-B796-8231350124B9@microsoft.com...
> Can someone help me with the following specific problems of compatibility between Win98/Me programs and Windows X ?.
> 
> I am using for my profession three programs (Paint Shop version 6, Axum
> version 5, Instat version 3) that ran without problem on Windows 95/98/Me
> and could also be installed on Windows NT (according to their respective
> editors, but I have not tested them in this environment).
> 
> When installed on a Windows XP machine, these programs run fine for the
> Administrator.  But for a user with limited account, I get the following
> messages
> - for Paint Shop version 6: "Failed to update the System Registry.  Please,
> try using REGEDIT". If clicking OK, the same message reappears, but if
> clicking OK again, the program starts normally !!
> - for Axum, the splash screen appears but then a message titled "16 bis
> Windows subsystem" pops up with the warning:
> "C:\DOCUMEN~2\PAULTU~1\LOCALS\Temp: a temporary file needed for
> initilization could not be cerated or be written.  Make sure the directoty
> path exists; and disk space is available" and presents a button offering to
> close.  But if I try to close, the splash screen freezes and I need to log
> off to have it to diasappear.
> - for Instat, the program does not start but I get the message: "This copy
> of Instat is for a single user and is already in use".
> Now, I can have all three programs running for a user with limited account
> if they launch the programme with Administrator priviledges (i.e. if the
> shortcut is modified with the "Run with  different credentials" box
> checked).  But I do not want to do this because it means that the password
> of the Administrator needs to be known by the users with limited accounts.
> 
> Is there any way to modify the permissions at the Registry level or at some
> other level in order to make that a user with a limited account can launch
> these programs without having to enter the Administrator password.  I have
> tried  at several places (and solved the problem that way for other
> programs) but have not been able to find out where to tweak Windows for
> these three programs.
> 
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