Re: Running programs for non-previleged users on XP

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:10:47 -0700

It really depends on what the program was written to do.
For example, if in brain-dead fashion the application had been written to
access for Write specific areas, like c:\Windows or some key in HKLM,
as part of its initialization, then you would experience this scenario.

I really do not understand your question 2, and also whether you are
saying "demand" in the context that a .Net developer would use that term. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Sathyaish" <Sathyaish@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1116862782.530525.182880@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Scenario
> ===========
>
> (1) You write a program using some programming language, say, C#.
>
> (2) You make an assembly out of the program by compiling it. It is a
> single module assembly.
>
> (3) You create a setup program for this.
>
> (4) During the setup, the user, an administrator group user, selects
> the option, "Install this program for all the people who use this
> computer, and not just for me."
>
> (5) The administrator group user finishes installing the program. Then
> he goes on to use it. He is able to use it.
>
> (6) The administrator group user logs off.
>
> (7) Another user, let's call him by the name John, who's only a
> "regular user" who does not belong to the administrator group (not even
> a Power User), logs in and wants to use the program. He double-clicks
> on the program exe icon on the desktop. It doesn't work for him.
>
>
> Questions:
> ============
> (1) Is is even possible or a reasonable demand that the user who does
> not have administrative previliges be able to use the program. It must
> be noted that the intention is so, since the administrator who
> installed the program supplied the choice "Install for everyone" while
> installing it.
>
> (2) If it is possible and a reasonable demand, how can it be
> accomplished?
>
>
> * I present an oversimplified version of the problem only to focus on
> the bare essentials of the problem.
>

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