limited user access

[L Williams @ Dempewolf Ford L/M]

How do you set up a limited user to view and run all
software on the system? I'm running XP home
Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Liz

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Applications are supposed to put user writable files in the user
profile, not in Program Files. Registry keys that are user writable
belong in HKCU not in HKLM. Program Files and HKLM are not writable by
limited accounts. You can change this to allow limited accounts to write
to these application subfolders and keys.

If your game or application works with admin accounts, but not with
limited accounts, you can fix it to allow limited users to access the
program files folder with "change" capability rather than "read" which
is the default.

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:c

where "appfolder" is the folder where the application is installed.

If you wish to undo these changes, then run

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:r

If you still have a problem with running the program or saving settings
on limited accounts, you may need to change permissions on the registry
keys. Run regedit.exe and go to HKLM\Software\vendor\app, where
"vendor\app" is the key that the software vendor used for your specific
program. Change the permissions on this key to allow Users full control.

In XP Pro, you can disable simple file sharing to see the security tabs
in the GUI and make changes there. In XP Home, you boot to safe mode to
see the security tab. The security tab and cacls.exe are roughly
equivalent (they change the same things).

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"L Williams @ Dempewolf Ford L/M" > wrote in message
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> How do you set up a limited user to view and run all
> software on the system? I'm running XP home
> Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Liz
>