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Hello, i am currently encountering a problem that is very
frustrating for me and the rest of our IT department. We
are working on upgrading all of the computers on our
network from 98 to XP. The problem we are encountering
is that nearly all of the programs used by the agency
were written by members of the IT dept. using FoxPro and
they were done for 98 originally. Everything runs
perfectly fine for a user logged in as an administrator,
but any other user setting (User, Power User, etc...)
does not allow the program to run correctly. We
obviously do not want to give admin rights to all 300
employees that may be logging into the computers but no
other options seem to let the other users run the
programs correctly. ANY ideas would be so greatly
appreciated as we have tried everything we can think of
to get this working. Thanks ahead of time.
 
No one else uses software that is custom written by your IT department, and
no one else is familiar with the source code.

Mike Mulligan
 
Devin said:
Hello, i am currently encountering a problem that is very
frustrating for me and the rest of our IT department. We
are working on upgrading all of the computers on our
network from 98 to XP. The problem we are encountering
is that nearly all of the programs used by the agency
were written by members of the IT dept. using FoxPro and
they were done for 98 originally. Everything runs
perfectly fine for a user logged in as an administrator,
but any other user setting (User, Power User, etc...)
does not allow the program to run correctly. We
obviously do not want to give admin rights to all 300
employees that may be logging into the computers but no
other options seem to let the other users run the
programs correctly. ANY ideas would be so greatly
appreciated as we have tried everything we can think of
to get this working. Thanks ahead of time.
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One thing you could try is to use Run As...

Shift-right-click the .exe file or the shortcut and choose Run As. Enter
a user account to run the program, such as an Administrator account.
Now, you don't want to have to be there to put in the username/password
every time. So, when the Run As dialog box opens, select "The following
user", enter an Administrator's account name and password and click OK.
From then on, the user will have Administrator rights - for only that
application.

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Have you edited the registry to give them admin
permissions for just the appropriate folders? What sort
of message was XP giving you? An access denied or
something else?

Jeremy Button
 
I have not tried editing the registry at all, all the
programs are on the desktop that the users will need to
get to, any idea on what setting i would need to change
to make it so that any user opening a shortcut from the
desktop would open it as admin? The error messages we
have been getting are when the programs try to open and
write a temp file to the local hard drive. Everytime it
tries to write to the Hard Drive it gets an error message
and then closes out.

Any other ideas would be great, we tried out the Run
As... but it doesn't seem to make any difference when we
do run as /administrator, it still has the same error
message if it is a user or power user logged in. Thanks
again for all the helpful ideas/suggestions.
 
The last thing I could say is make sure that wherever it
is writing to on the hard drive has permissions set
for 'everyone'. This would allow every user to be able to
write to it.
 
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