XP File Permissions - interesting problem

kathleenREM_OVE_at_herzeleid.net
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:11:10 -0800

Hi all, hope someone can help. I am working on this
computer that has the administrator account password-
protected. I have a couple games installed (Space Colony
and The Sims) that run under all the accounts but only
save when run under the admin account. I would like for
these games to be able to save w/o giving the users the
admin password, or log in for them every time. The game
saves when I "run as" administrator under the other
accounts. EA Games support and the makers of Space
Colony support webpages are horrible (why am I not
surprised?)

My guess is that the standard users don't have access
rights to the game folder, so I tried to change the
file/folder permissions (reference article 308418 Set,
View, or Remove File and Folder Permissions) - but here's
the catch - when I go into "Control Panel>Folder
Options>View>Advanced Settings", there's no option for
enabling/disabling "Use Simple File Sharing
(Recommended)"! I've done this on my computer at home
and it worked, so I know it can be done. Is this a virus
or something? So since I can't figure out how to disable
simple file sharing, I can't change around user access
rights to files and folders. I haven't been able to find
anything on the MS website about that option not being
there.

I've also tried running the games under "Windows 98/ME
compatibility mode" but that had no effect.

Any suggestions?

On a related note, does anybody know how to get the
game "Fallout" running under XP? I couldn't even get it
to install under W2K, and it least it installs under XP,
but then when I try to run it I get a "Game requires at
least 20MB hard disk space to run" error (I have GBs
free).

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