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re: Windows XP User
Friday, March 4, 2005 at 4:05 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Varghese
(3 messages posted)
Hi guys, especially to Kenny and Donna,
I too have a kid that I have set up as limited account. After installing the Harry
Potter games (1&2), I found that the admin users can run the game but not the limited
users. It made no sense to me to set up the limited users as admin accounts!!!
After some poking around, I found the solution.
Log in as the admin(yourself) and go to regedit.(be careful here...do a backup of
the registry if you are not familiar or unsure)
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE, look for the subkey in which the games's registry
entries are stored. In my case Harry Potter came under EA Games. Right-click and
go to Permissions. Look for the USERS group. The limited user account should be under
this group. Select that group and go to Advanced below. Now select the USERS group
and click on edit. Here you are basically going to add Write DAC and Write Owner
permissions to this account. Save and exit. That should do the trick....worked for
me.
On Monday, February 14, 2005 at 11:35 am, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>It depends on how the game was installed and wether it was installed so all users
>have access or just the installing user. I'm sure there is a registry hack that
will
>allow you to change what apps can be run by what users, unfortunately I don't know
>what it is.
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- re: Windows XP User (Rich Kurtz: Monday, February 14, 2005 at 11:35 am)
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