RE: Other users can't use or see all Start Menu programs

From: leonardface9 (leonardface9_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:15:02 -0800

Hello, Ian!

And thank you for the very quick reply. :) I'm going to print this out, and
hopefully have better luck this time around. But as you mentioned, some
programs certainly need to be written better. But it does seem Miscrosoft
would come up with a better solution for this doesn't it? I mean that's one
of XP's selling points, multiple user accounts.

Oh well, I still love Windows, I'll just have to make sure and put all my
important files on my storage hard drive instead of just my music
files...they escaped the meltdown, but I lost all my pictures, documents,
etc. :( My Grandmother said a bought/learned lesson is the best one, and she
was right!!

And I was wondering about the SP issue as well, because I'm on slow dial up
myself, at least until March 5 when BellSouth FastAccess is finally available
in my area and my modem is supposed to be in...yipee!! :) But I went ahead
and ordered the SP2 disc, as it's free. But they charge for the SP1 and SP1a,
but I'll get them too, as I'm sure it will happen again because that's the
nature of this beast called Windows.
  
Thank you again Ian,

leonardface9
"IanRoy" wrote:

> Hi, leonardface9;
>
> To make a shortcut available to all users, it needs to be in the "All Users"
> folder, or, as an alternate, you can place a copy in each user's folder; but
> this will not make a program work under a limited account if it requires
> admin priviledges to run, and some do. One can right-click the shortcut to
> such a program and choose "run as," choose an admin user, and type the
> password for that account in the resulting dialog, but I believe this has to
> be done each time the offending program is started. Grrr. Simplest
> workaraound is to make everyone who needs to use that program an admin user.
> You may not wish to do that. Another answer is to search for a better written
> program to replace one that requires admin priviledges simply to run, if you
> can find one. Then let the offending developer know why you won't use their
> product.
>
> I've heard about using SP2 CDs rather than downloading from the internet,
> but the only reason I've heard is to avoid the long download time over a
> dial-up connection.
>
> Regards,
> Ian.

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