Re: XP Home Question

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From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:31:20 +1100

Limited User = no such thing. It is a User (and thus already a "standard user").

In safe mode the security tab appears.

Filemon/regmon can tell you where it's choking
www.sysinternals.com 

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"Scott Souva" <ssouva@spambites.twcny.rr.com> wrote in message news:4cjvt01unopebsa4t504gml6irgkfsc65m@4ax.com...
> 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

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