Re: Administrator Help
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 12/01/04
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:55:41 -0500
Bowesleeming wrote:
> I am set up as an administartor on the computer at home, so is one of
> the kids (because they don't seem to able to play the games without
> this !)
> I have tried to restrict access for loading games onto the computer
> through Access manager by disabling adding and removing programmes
> etc.
> But this doesn't seem to work and they still have the facility to
> load and play.
> Please - How do I stop this ? and retain control without changing
> their profile from administrator to limited user ?
>
> Thanks
I think a lot of games developers are just plain lazy or don't understand or
care about security. See if RegMon and FileMon from www.sysinternals.com can
help you identify what files/folders/regkeys the game expects to have write
access to, so you can manually modify them.
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