Security too tight to allow certain games to run?

From: Shaun _at_ http://twinworld.ca/ (_at_)
Date: 08/09/04

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    I'm sure someone has figured this out, as this is a common issue for alot of
    people. Right now I have to run everybody's profiles on xp with administrator
    access that wants to play games on the machine, because alot of the games
    will not be recognized as being installed when using any other profile (such
    as Power User, etc).

    If I try to install a game using Power User, the game installs itself, but
    then when I re-run the cd, the game wants to re-install itself again. If I
    say no to re-install it... change my profile to an admin profile, and
    re-launch the cd... the cd now detects the game as being installed and gives
    me the option to play it (which then loads the game and everything works).

    Anyone aware what registry entries, etc might need to be modified to be read
    / written to by power users? I have the games installed onto a FAT32
    partition, so NTFS settings arn't an issue on that partition. I do have my
    C:\ setup for NTFS though. Any help on this would be great so I can lower the
    other profiles down to Powerusers to help secure the pc against threats
    through an admin account.

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