XP Home Question

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From: Scott Souva (ssouva_at_spambites.twcny.rr.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:08:35 GMT

Maybe someone can help me with a problem... My church has XP Home
(running NTFS) with multiple users. On this machine, they have Quick
Books Pro 2004 installed, but only Administrators can run it. I would
like a non-Admin user to run this program.

If this was a XP Pro, I would simply change the security on the
application folder and add specific users. But... this is XP Home,
and there is no "security" tab on the folder properties. So, I used
the cacls.exe command to modify the permissions of the program
directory and files:

Cacls "C:\Program Files\Intuit" /T /G User1:C /E

I verified that all the directories and files were modified with
"create" rights, but this still did not solve my problem. When I try
to launch the Quick Books application, Windows give me an error and
suggests that I change the user to a "Standard" user. According the
User Manager, there is no such thing as a "Standard" user. There are
only "Limited" and "Administrator" types. Is there any way around
this?
 
Any help would certainly be appreciated. Thanks.

Scot