Setting Up XP for family use

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Help! We have a computer with XP on it. I'm the administrator and my kids have limited accounts. How can I set up my computer, so that they can play the games that I buy for them, without making them administrators? A lot of games require administrator to install (which I'm not opposed to), but these same games also require administrator login to play them. What good is that? I don't want to keep having to log my self into the computer, every time the kids want to play games. Isn't there a way to setup permissions, on a case-by-case basis

Thanks in advance.
 
Hi Vince,

To install them in their accounts, right-click the setup file and use "run
as", then enter the admin name and password. To run them under limited
accounts, see this article:

Some Programs Do Not Work If You Log On from Limited Account [Q307091]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307091

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



Vince Black said:
Help! We have a computer with XP on it. I'm the administrator and my
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kids have limited accounts. How can I set up my computer, so that they can
play the games that I buy for them, without making them administrators? A
lot of games require administrator to install (which I'm not opposed to),
but these same games also require administrator login to play them. What
good is that? I don't want to keep having to log my self into the computer,
every time the kids want to play games. Isn't there a way to setup
permissions, on a case-by-case basis?
 
Hi Vince,

Try to make them 'power users' and see if they can play the games
then. In Help and support, type 'power users' to get more info.

To change the accounts, go to Run and type 'control userpasswords2'
without quotation marks. Select the account and click 'properties'
once there go to the groups tab, tick 'others' and you will see a
selection of different groups, choose 'power users' there's some
explanation there of the properties of this group.

Good luck and hope this helps.
 
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