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Is there a way to always run a program as an Administrator without having to
select "run as" and enter the username and password every time?

Many thanks for any help.
 
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Mary M said:
Is there a way to always run a program as an Administrator without
having to select "run as" and enter the username and password every
time?
Many thanks for any help.
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Not natively. There are third party Run As solutions, tho - google for them
and I expect you'll find a lot of hits.

That said, I have to ask why you find you need to do this - as there may be
a better way.
 
Tried everything possible to run a program, but it won't run properly unless
you are at least a power user. I don't want to make this user a power user.
I tried permissions for the program directory, registry ect.. Still won't
work

Thanks,




"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
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Mary M said:
Tried everything possible to run a program, but it won't run properly
unless you are at least a power user. I don't want to make this user
a power user. I tried permissions for the program directory, registry
ect.. Still won't work
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Did you try RegMon and FileMon from www.sysinternals.com (free)

Also, make sure you yell at the application developers for their sheer
laziness. There is no reason any application should need more than limited
user rights to run....
Thanks,




"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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Not natively. There are third party Run As solutions, tho - google
for them and I expect you'll find a lot of hits.

That said, I have to ask why you find you need to do this - as there
may be a better way.
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Lanwench said:
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Not natively. There are third party Run As solutions, tho - google for them
and I expect you'll find a lot of hits.

That said, I have to ask why you find you need to do this - as there may be
a better way.
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Log on as Administrator? If that user is hidden(Administrator gets
hidden when other users are created) double ctrl-alt-del at welcome
screen or just simply type Administrator in user if you have the classic
logon form like me and "professionals" do :):D
 
If the application will run when the user is a power user then you
positively can make it run for a regular user. You just need to give the
users the same permissions that power users have for the folders and
possibly registry keys that the application uses. The main places to check
are the application folder in program files folder, the application
subfolder in the program files\common files folder, the application
subfolder in the documents and settings\all users\application data folder
and the application registry key you find with regedit under HKLM\software.
If you still can not get it to work then use Lanwench's suggestion to use
regmon and filemon to see what folders and registry keys are used by the
application particularly for write/create/delete. --- Steve


Mary M said:
Tried everything possible to run a program, but it won't run properly
unless you are at least a power user. I don't want to make this user a
power user. I tried permissions for the program directory, registry ect..
Still won't work

Thanks,




"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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Not natively. There are third party Run As solutions, tho - google for
them and I expect you'll find a lot of hits.

That said, I have to ask why you find you need to do this - as there may
be a better way.
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