Limited accounts
From: John O'Callaghan (jocallag@bentonrea.com)
Date: 06/01/02
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From: "John O'Callaghan" <jocallag@bentonrea.com> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:09:22 -0700
This is a problem in general with XP I have noticed.
There are a variety of symptons exhibited depending on
the application you are attempting to run. I run into the
following similar situation wherein I want my family
members to have user (limited) or power user accounts,
but then many of the applications they want to run will
not work for them (especially games the kids want to
play). Said applications run fine under XP if the account
is changed to an Administrator account, but otherwise -
nada. Win2000 had this same problem to a lesser extent,
at least in my experience.
I have spent considerable time looking through various
aspects of the registry and I'm nearly certain that
typically the problem is a registry problem, i.e.
insufficient rights to some (often obscure) registry key.
And very occasionally I've been able to find or stumble
across the registry entry that needs to have its
permissions changed and then the problem application has
worked fine afterward. I've run applications like
SysInternal's Regmon to try and track down the offending
registry entry, but haven't had much luck usually in
finding the problem.
It seems the only solution is that all your users have to
be Administrators. Which is fine, but doesn't grant much
control over the machine and leaves the system open to
all sorts of chaos. I would be very interested in hearing
from someone more knowledgable than myself on this.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have XP Home, I want to know why limited accounts will
NOT work. I have
>two accounts on this computer both administrators at the
moment but I would
>really like to make the other limited but everytime I
try to do this the
>computer slows right down and we get a pop up saying
Ending Task all the
>time when we attempt to log off. Why is this and is
there any way to fix
>this?
>
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