When you say they do not run, do you get any error messages? If so, what do
the error messages say?
If, on the other hand, the programs don't appear at all in the start menu,
it's because the setup program installed the shortcuts into the
administrators profile rather than the "all users" profile.
Log in as your administrator account and right-click the start button.
Choose "open". Navigate to the folder containing the shortcuts.
Now right-click the start button again and this time choose "Open all
users". Navigate to where you want the shortcut or folder to go.
The important bit now is to copy the shortcuts to the new location and then
to delete them from the old location. If you simply move them by dragging,
the permissions on the files do not get reset so that other users can use
the programs. By copying, the appropriate permissions are set on the
shortcut files.
You may find is that the setup routine placed data in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER
hive of the registry and the program wasn't written in such a way that it
would automatically create any missing data. If this is the case, use
regedit to locate the missing data, export it to a .reg file and then import
while logged in as your other user account.
Similarly, you may find that the software wrote data files to the
%userprofile% folder and didn't anticipate that the data might not be there
in the future.
If you're really stuck trying to work out which registry keys and files a
program is attempting to access, use FileMon and RegMon from
www.sysinternals.com to work out what the program is trying to access.
Hope that helps
Oli
