Re: Help install programs foe one user
From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 07/31/02
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From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:33:32 -0700
"Jon" <jstinebaugh@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I have three users on my XP Home. Me (Admiitrator
> privalages) The wife (User) and the kid (User) What is
> the best way to install programs for one of them but not
> have them show up in all the start]\programs menus. If I
> install a kids game and choose the path for his user
> folder the game sometimes doesn't work at all or there is
> a crash after it starts running.
>
> Thanks Jon
Hi Jon,
You actually have a couple questions there, or at least
the answers are best handled with some separation.
To get something installed for just one user:
This depends on how the application installs, since some
will only install for the current user if that user is not an
administrator, some will only install for an administrator
and when doing so some of these will automatically be
set up for all users and some of them will ask what is to
be done.
The most common is an app that must be installed by an
administrator and that will automatically set itself up to
be visible to, if not successfully runnable by, all accounts.
Such an app will place shortcuts into the Doc&Settings
subdirectory for All Users, usually within Programs\Start
Menu. You can drag these over to the parallel location in
the profile of the account that should see the startup items.
When doing this, use a right-click drag and drop and then
select to copy; then delete the originals from All Users.
Next, to make sure that other users do not run these, find
the application install directory, usually within Program Files,
and set the permissions so that only the desired accounts
have access, rather than the default that probably will have
grants to the Users group.
Now, the app might not run unless the account is an admin.
This is a failure of the application to follow the Windows logo
guidelines. Most often it is because the account needs to write
something, like a temp file, into some location within the install
area. This can be corrected by changing the Read/Execute grant
to Users (or in your first part, the specific accounts) to Change
so that Write will be allowed.
This last issue is most often why apps behave in the way you
have mentioned you have seen when the Kid account tries to
run them. Sometimes, it is not just the program install location
on disk, but also its registry keys that need to have their grants
adjusted to allow the running account to change their values.
In Home, you can adjust the filesystem permissions with the
cacls command. A search of earlier posts here will yield some
detailed instructions on this, particularly posted by Kent England.
-- Roger Abell MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
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