Games and user accounts

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Paul

Can anyone answer the following..I have an admin account,
an account with full permissions and an account with
limited permissions set up in XP home addition. I have
installed Call of Duty in the admin account, however it
cannot bot be accessed through the account with limited
permissions.

How can I change the permissions for the limited account?
I have searched most of the XP help files and can find no
info on this at all. I'm sure the solution is simple.

Paul
 
Hi Paul,

If you're asking how to move the limited user account
to the administrator accounts group, do the following:

Log on as Administrator
Click Start / Control Panel / User Accounts
Click Change an Account
Click on the limited account
Click Change account type
Click Computer Administrator
Click Change account type button

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| Can anyone answer the following..I have an admin account,
| an account with full permissions and an account with
| limited permissions set up in XP home addition. I have
| installed Call of Duty in the admin account, however it
| cannot bot be accessed through the account with limited
| permissions.
|
| How can I change the permissions for the limited account?
| I have searched most of the XP help files and can find no
| info on this at all. I'm sure the solution is simple.
|
| Paul
 
Has anyone found a solution to this issue that actually
works? I have a similar problem except I can't even play
affected games under tha Admin account...Civilization 3,
Rise of Nations & 1503 AD (I'm sure more in my library
will be affected as well) I've succefully gotten
Warcraft 3 and Dark Ages of Camelot running. All these
games worked fine on my Win98 OS. I have tried turning
off Simple File Sharing and Taking Control of these
folders and files but it has not fixed my problem.

Thanks for any help.
Rod Lamb
 
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