Program sharing

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Dr Barrie Bardsley

In XP Professional, I have set up a number of users, with
myself as administrator. I want to be able to allow my
grandchildren to play certain games but not have access to
other programs.

I've tried dragging shortcuts to "shared folders" and this
worked for one game but not for others, for some
unaccountable (to me at any rate) reason. How on earth do
I reliably do this, short of copying the whole program to
the other user's folder (ridiculously wasteful of space)?

I'd appreciate greatly any help that anyone can provide. I
suspect that this question is too basic to appear in any
of the FAQs or textbooks I've tried to find it in.

Barrie
 
Most applications weren't designed for this type of multi-user environment.
Such applications need to be installed in each specific user's account to
whom you wish to grant access.

First, be sure the account to which you wish to grant access is set to
administrator and not limited. Install the applications to the same folder
in which it was originally installed. This will look the same as one
install on your hard drive but create the pointers necessary for this user
to have access to the application.

Once the installation is complete, you can return the account to its limited
status if that is what you want and the user should still have access.
 
Also type folder permissions in Help. Games like to write to places where limited users are not allowed to write.
 
-----Original Message-----
Most applications weren't designed for this type of multi- user environment.
Such applications need to be installed in each specific user's account to
whom you wish to grant access.

First, be sure the account to which you wish to grant access is set to
administrator and not limited. Install the applications to the same folder
in which it was originally installed. This will look the same as one
install on your hard drive but create the pointers necessary for this user
to have access to the application.

Once the installation is complete, you can return the account to its limited
status if that is what you want and the user should still have access.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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Many thanks for this help. I really appreciate your taking
the trouble to reply.

Barrie
 
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