Admin User Vs. Power User Vs. User

From: kk7gw (kk7gw@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/01/02 

From: "kk7gw" <kk7gw@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:41:25 -0700

Generally when applications require Admin access it means
they're trying to write to the HKEY_Local_Machine
registry hive, or a directory like Program Files etc that
by default only allows write access to Administrators.
They may also be trying to use special 'rights' that
allow them to do certain things (check out User Rights
Assignment in the Group Policy editor).

You can use things like FileMon and RegMon from
http://www.sysinternals.com to see what these apps are
trying to do, and then change NTFS permissions or
registry key permissions to allow regular users write
access to those areas.

You may also want to contact the vendor of the app and
see if they have any methods to allow their apps to run
as regular users.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am running XP in a NT Domain environment and I have
>noticed that with XP and Win2000 when I setup users in
>either operating system, some applications will not run
>unless I give the user Admin rights in the OS, not a
>Domain Admin right. Why is this? I hate this feature
of
>both OS's, it makes it very frustrating, because I want
>the user to be able to run all the apps, but don't want
>them to have the ability to install software and make
>changes to system without asking me first. Is there a
>way around this?
>
>
>Thanks!
>.
>

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