Re: Why do games installed as admin not work in restricted user accounts

Hi Martin,

Much has to do with how the program installer is written. In this case, the
apt descriptive is "poorly written". Please see:
http://rickrogers.org/xpsware.htm for more details on this issue.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Martin C" <martinc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am in the process of reinstalling all my apps and games onto a new WinXP
Home SP2 machine (previously used Win98SE).

First a bit of history that may be of importance:

I have 4 partitions on my disc
C: OS and OS related apps (eg spyware checkers and tools etc)
D: Data - this includes the My Documents folders for all users on the PC
(links to them via the normal C:\Documents and Settings)
E: Applications
F: Games

The problem I am having is the following:
I install the game onto the F drive (using my computer admin account).
I am able to run the games correctly with no problems at all from my
account. These are from games that provide an initial start-up screen with
the Install (and where applicable, the Run Game options).

If another user (with a limited account) tries to run the game, they are
not
given the Run Game options from the launch game screen, but are given the
Install option instead. Obviously, the game is already installed on the
PC.
If I override it and say continue using my account password, it does
exactly
that - tries to install the game again. Usually I get the "game is already
installed" problems.

Why can only a computer administrator account run the game. If I change
the
account from restricted to admin, there is no problem.

Thanks for any help you can provide. So far XP is proving a right pain. At
this rate I will have to give each user admin rights, which I would rather
not do.

Cheers,
Martin





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