Hi David,
Try it with Age of Mythology.
Cheers,
Jimmy.
| Jimmy.........................sorry but it does work !! TRY IT !!
|
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| Use if for MOH, SOF, CAD, Max Payne America Army plus all the Lego
games,
| in fact you name it it works..
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|
| David
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| Jimmy S. wrote:
| > David,
| >
| > If it was only that easy.
| >
| > Games require more than access rights to the game's folder.
| > Games require access to the registry keys as well.
| >
| > Your advice, is well intended, but won't resolve the issue.
| >
| >
| > | >> No.................to involved...
| >>
| >>
| >> On the games folder.right click sharing and security........add your
| >> child as
| >> as admin account... You can limit it even further by just giving
| >> user access to dividual files within the game folder.
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >> Jimmy S. wrote:
| >>> Hi Carl,
| >>> | >>>> I am setup on XP as a superuser and my children each have
| >>>> their own restricted user accounts. Why, when I install a
| >>>> game under my user are they unable to play it under
| >>>> theirs?, How can i give them permission to play it
| >>>> without changing their user account to superuser.
| >>>>
| >>>>
| >>>
| >>> Some games will work with limited accounts after they have been
| >>> installed and
| >>> run once either using an administrator account, or by temporarily
| >>> changing the
| >>> limited user account(s) to an admin account in Control Panel / User
| >>> Accounts,
| >>> just for the purpose of running the game the first time in order to
| >>> be able to
| >>> install the necessary files and create the keys in the registry that
| >>> it needs to
| >>> function, but may not be able to due to the restrictive nature of
| >>> limited accounts.
| >>>
| >>> If that mouthful doesn't resolve the issue, use the "Run As.."
| >>> command instead:
| >>>
| >>> 1. Click Start / Control Panel / User Accounts / Create a New
| >>> Account / Name the Account: "able2play" (without quotes) / Next
| >>> Pick: "Computer- Administrator" & Click "Create Account";
| >>>
| >>> 2. Click on your new able2play account and Create a Password for
| >>> it;
| >>>
| >>> 3. When your limited user wants to play a game that requires
| >>> Administrator privileges they can Right-Click the shortcut to
| >>> that game / Click Run As... / "The Following User": able2play
| >>> and enter the password. Simple as that!
| >>>
| >>> I know what you're thinking: That defeats the purpose of the
| >>> limited user account.
| >>> To secure the "able2play" account so that it can't be used to logon
| >>> to the computer:
| >>>
| >>> First you can hide the account so that it won't show up on the
| >>> Welcome Screen:
| >>>
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_hide_users.htm (thanks
| >>> Doug!)
| >>>
| >>> Next add a shortcut to the windows logoff routine into the RUN key
| >>> of the
| >>> able2play registry. I made a reg patch to simplify this process if
| >>> you wish to use it:
| >>>
| >>> 4. Logon to the "able2play" account,
| >>>
| >>> 5. <ONLY RUN THIS PATCH USING THE "ABLE2PLAY" ACCOUNT>
| >>> Save this patch to your drive and then doubleclick it to install
| >>> it to your registry.
| >>>
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/OnlyRunUsingAble2PlayAccount.reg
| >>>
| >>> or
| >>>
| >>> *Instead of using the reg patch, click Start / Run / regedt32 /
| >>> browse to: [HKCU\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
| >>> and Click Edit / New / String value / ValueName: logoff / Value
| >>> data: logoff
| >>>
| >>> From now on, if anyone logs on with the "able2play" account, the
| >>> computer will log
| >>> them off immediately. They will not gain access to an
| >>> administrators desktop!
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