IE With XP User Accounts

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Gerard

My Internet Explorer works fine under the Administrator
account, but won't load under a Limited user account. If
I change any of the Limited accounts to Administrator it
works. I'm running IE 6 SP1 with XP SP1, with a shared
DSL internet connection. The other computer sharing the
connection is running Windows 2000, with the same user
acccount setup, and IE runs fine in both Administrator
and Limited accounts. Any sugestions??
 
Gerard said:
My Internet Explorer works fine under the Administrator
account, but won't load under a Limited user account. If
I change any of the Limited accounts to Administrator it
works. I'm running IE 6 SP1 with XP SP1, with a shared
DSL internet connection. The other computer sharing the
connection is running Windows 2000, with the same user
acccount setup, and IE runs fine in both Administrator
and Limited accounts. Any sugestions??
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One common reason for this is that you have adware installed
on the computer having the problem. The Administrator
has sufficient rights to run the adware but the limited
users do not. The remedy is to run Ad-aware or Spybot.

From Google:
Below are the original messages dealing with this problem
of a Runtime error when any Explorer program is executed
by a user with a Limited account in Windows XP.

-----Original Message-----
I have started getting a error when opening IE6 [Opening
any Explorer.exe causes runtime Error (see below) ] on
WinXP that says: "This application has requested the
runtime to terminate in an unusual way". The title of
the message box indicates the application is Microsoft
Visual C++ Runtime Library. This error only occurs on
users
accounts that are "Limited". Changing the user's
account to "Administrator" allows the browser to open as
normal. What change did I inadvertently make that caused
this.
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Hi,
Search for adware/spyware/BHOs:

Spybot - Search & Destroy : http://security.kolla.de/
Ad-aware 6- Lavasoft: http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
BHOCaptor: http://www.webattack.com/get/bho.shtml
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All:

I downloaded all three utilites as suggested and ran all
of them. The problem, identical as described, went away
after cleaning out these parasites. Apparently the
parasite was attempting to perform an operation that a
user who is not an administrator is not privaledged to
perform.
 
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