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

From: IanRoy (IanRoy_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:29:02 -0800

Hi, leonardface9;

You are welcome. I am not a programmer, so I don't know what, if anything,
Microsoft could do at this late date to make legacy programs and those
written as if they were legacy programs work properly in a multi-user
environment. I posted a question in a Mac forum to see if the problem existed
over there as well, since the new Mac OS, like UNIX, is a true multi-user
system. A very knowledgeable developer responded that yes, a program can be
written to require admin priviledges when there is no reason why it should
actually need them. So I put the blame on the developers of such junk.

Backing up everything before major upgrades is always a good idea, and maybe
dismounting any connected back-up drives before upgrading as well. I haven't
heard about it happening on Windows, but there was one Mac OS X upgrade that
wrote a series of zeros to part of some mounted Firewire drives. Instant
invisibility of all the files on those drives--just from an upgrade to the
operating system.

Regards,
Ian.

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