Applications only showing up for one admin

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I set up WinXP MCE 2005 with two users, and both are admins. However, for
many applications (such as Palm Desktop) the program shows up in the start
menu for the acct where it was created and not the other. How do I install a
program and have it be just as available to all admin users? thx
 
Nate said:
I set up WinXP MCE 2005 with two users, and both are admins. However, for
many applications (such as Palm Desktop) the program shows up in the start
menu for the acct where it was created and not the other. How do I install a
program and have it be just as available to all admin users? thx
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You may experience some problems if the software was designed for
Win9x/Me, or if it was intended for WinNT/2K/XP, but was improperly
designed. Quite simply, the application doesn't "know" how to handle
individual user profiles with differing security permissions levels, or
the application is designed to make to make changes to "off-limits"
sections of the Windows registry or protected Windows system folders.

For example, saved data are often stored in a sub-folder under the
application's folder within C:\Program Files - a place where no
inexperienced or limited user should ever have write permissions.

It may even be that the software requires "write" access to parts
of the registry or protected systems folders/files that are not normally
accessible to regular users. (This *won't* occur if the application is
properly written.) If this does prove to be the case, however, you're
often left with three options: Either grant the necessary users
appropriate higher access privileges (either as Power Users or local
administrators), explicitly grant normal users elevated privileges to
the affected folders and/or part(s) or the registry, or replace the
application with one that was properly designed specifically for
WinNT/2K/XP.

Some Programs Do Not Work If You Log On from Limited Account
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307091

Additionally, here are a couple of tips suggested, in a reply to a
different post, by MS-MVP Kent W. England:

"If your game or application works with admin accounts, but not with
limited accounts, you can fix it to allow limited users to access the
program files folder with "change" capability rather than "read" which
is the default.

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:c

where "appfolder" is the folder where the application is installed.

If you wish to undo these changes, then run

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:r

If you still have a problem with running the program or saving
settings on limited accounts, you may need to change permissions on
the registry keys. Run regedit.exe and go to HKLM\Software\vendor\app,
where "vendor\app" is the key that the software vendor used for your
specific program. Change the permissions on this key to allow Users
full control."

Palm software, in particular, is especially poorly designed. It needs
to be installed into each separate user account that will need to use it.


--

Bruce Chambers

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Logon as an administrator and look in the user's profile that has the
program shortcuts that you want and copy it the user's profile that does
not have it. Look under documents and settings\username\start menu folder
and subfolders. You also could put the shortcuts in the all users profile
but then every user that logs onto the computer will see the shortcut though
not necessarily be able to run. --- Steve
 
I did some more investigating....for instance, MS Money 2001 is another
program that I installed using one admin user. I logged in as the other admin
user, and not only does it not show up in the start menu, but when I click on
the .exe file under Program Files, the program won't start (it does under the
other user). How can this be?? Both are admins! thx for any add'l comments....
 
Check the permissions for the folder to see if administrators has full
control or not. Also if the user is a member of a group that has deny
permissions to the folder/file then the user may not be able to access or
run the program even if the user is administrator. See the link below on how
to check and manage folder NTFS permissions while logged on as an
administrator. Offhand I am not familiar with XP MCE but see if any of it
helps. XP Home for instance requires that you boot into Safe Mode as an
administrator in order to see the security tab on a folder's properties
while XP Pro requires that you disable simple file sharing.. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418
 
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