Re: Users vs. Power Users

From: Chuck (arcpublic@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: "Chuck" <arcpublic@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:33:12 -0800

Turns out problem was in registry as you mentioned. App
was trying to write to keys under HKLM/Software/Classes.
But the interesting thing was that we were using auditing
to watch what was going on, but no failure events were
ever written for that hive.. Regmon didn't pick anything
up either. :-/

>
>I had an app that didn't work properly unless the user
was an admin. First I
>changed the permissions on the folders used by the
program but that didn't
>solve it. I then modified the permissions on the register
keys associated
>with the program through regedt32, and that did the trick
for me.
>
>--
>Dennis B.
>
>
>.
>

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