Re: Legacy Applications

From: Devin (dsmith_at_hospicenwo.org)
Date: 08/11/03 

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:00:47 -0700

I realize that no one is going to be familiar with the
programs, i was wondering if anyone had run into a
similar problem that XP would not let non-admins run
programs and if they had a solution for it. I have seen
it discussed in several Knowledge Base articles, but the
only solution they ever offer is to make the users admins
which really isn't an option since we can't allow all
users on our network to have free reign. So i will re-
phrase my question, does anyone know how to change the
groups settings and what they are able to do? My first
choice would be to 'upgrade' the power users group and
make them able to run these applications that currently
only users with admin rights can run.

>-----Original Message-----
>No one else uses software that is custom written by your
IT department, and
>no one else is familiar with the source code.
>
>Mike Mulligan
>
>"Devin" <dsmith@Hospicenwo.org> wrote in message
>news:080901c36013$1da2a7b0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello, i am currently encountering a problem that is
very
>> frustrating for me and the rest of our IT department.
We
>> are working on upgrading all of the computers on our
>> network from 98 to XP. The problem we are encountering
>> is that nearly all of the programs used by the agency
>> were written by members of the IT dept. using FoxPro
and
>> they were done for 98 originally. Everything runs
>> perfectly fine for a user logged in as an
administrator,
>> but any other user setting (User, Power User, etc...)
>> does not allow the program to run correctly. We
>> obviously do not want to give admin rights to all 300
>> employees that may be logging into the computers but no
>> other options seem to let the other users run the
>> programs correctly. ANY ideas would be so greatly
>> appreciated as we have tried everything we can think of
>> to get this working. Thanks ahead of time.
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