Re: Installing software- why can't other users execute the program?

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 02/28/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:48:55 -0700

If you look into Documents and Settings you will see
some directories with the names that accounts had when
they first logged in, and also directories named Default
and All Users.

If you look into the Start Menu Programs in the profile
for your account you will likely see the launchers for the
applications that only your account has available. If you
look into the similar places in All Users you will see those
for applications that show in all accounts. What you need
to do is to copy these from your profile to the similar spot
in the All Users profile and then delete the ones that were
copied. Do not move these, copy them so that the NTFS
permissions will be correctly set in the copying.

Locations within the profiles you may want to check
desktop
start menu
start menu\programs
start menu\programs\startup 

-- 
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Neal" <nealhundt@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:0d2e01c2ded2$fd49dd10$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04...
> I have admin priv's.  Following install of an XP 
> compatible program per vendor's instructions, other users 
> (also with admin priv) don't see the prog on their start 
> menu; only I do.
> 
> I installed Acrobat Reader the same way, yet that prog is 
> on everyone's start menu.
> 
> Why is one prog specific to me while the other (eg 
> Acrobat) is shared?  How can I allow other users to access 
> the program?

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