Re: Administrator's nightmare!

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: peter (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:18:06 -0700

Thanks Andrew,

I will try that!

Pete
>-----Original Message-----
> Also try RegMon and FileMon from
www.sysinternals.com. They can
>help you locate the specifics of the ill-behaved
program's activities so
>that you can alter the permissions on the appropriate
registry keys. If you
>need to take a quick guess, the first place to look is
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\< vendor name >\<
application name> for registry
>permissions and C:\Program Files\< vendor name>\ <
application name> for
>file permissions. But be persistent. As the adage goes,
too many local
>administrators spoil the broth.
>
>"Peter Gooding" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:18c601c499fa$8b4bc950$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible to
allow
>> a "user" (rather than giving a user Administrator's
>> permission) to run a program locally on their
workstation
>> (Win XP Pro on a domain SBS) which requires the program
>> to modify the registry on their local machine without
>> giving them Administrators permission. Right now that
is
>> what I have to do but I am not comfortable with this
>> arrangement.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Pete
>
>
>.
>

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