How to make a program run without being administrator ?

From: Hemanth Golla (hgolla_at_lehman.com)
Date: 05/02/03 

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:38:15 -0700

Try "REGMON, FILEMON" tools from "www.sysinternals.com".
They will clearly show you what access is missing in terms
of registry, file acess.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm using Windows XP Home Edition.
>How to make a program run without being administrator ?
>I learnt thanks to this newsgroup that, in most cases, a
program will not work
>if the user can't write in the directory where this
program has been installed.
>Providing access to this directory in read/write for the
users group generally
>allows to solve the problem.
>Sometimes, it is needed also to provide access rights to
the \TEMP directory.
>Sometimes also, you can cope with it by giving to the
user temporary
>administrator rights, installing the game with this user
account, running the
>game once, exiting and then going back to limited rights.
>Problem : with Age of Empire II, all that does not work
and limited users can't
>play (administrators can).
>(Also tried : various compatibility options, but this is
out of scope as
>administrators CAN play, where limited users CAN'T).
>
>1/ How can I cope with it ?
>2/ More generally, does anybody knows how I can capture
what a program is doing
>in terms of accesses, in order to be able to give the
appropriate access rights
>to the users on such or such directory ?
>
>Thanks by advance.
>
>--
>God be with ye
>
>
>.
>

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