Re: Running programs as administrator

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 06/03/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:41:58 -0700

If it is only access to the registry that is the problem and if the keys
that need to be written are in HKLM under the Software branch for that
application, I suggest you might want to give "change" permission to
Users for that CorelDraw key. They won't be able to write to other keys
in HKLM so this is pretty safe.

CorelDraw might have a XP patch to fix this problem. Worth a look. Also
search the windowsxp groups on Google Advanced Groups search for
CorelDraw issues and see what other folks are saying.

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=coreldraw&as_ugroup=microsoft.publi
c.windowsxp*&lr=lang_en&num=50&hl=en 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Micah <starbuckmnospam@valwest.com> wrote:
> I having problems with my users needing programs that
> access the registry.  I don't want my users to be able to
> access the registry in any situation, but inorder for
> these programs to run (CorelDRAW 9) they have to have
> access.
>
> I know I can do a "run as" but I can't be making all my
> users administrators just so they can use some programs.
> How do I setup my network to allow specific programs to
> access the system files when my users normally can't?

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