Re: Security too tight to allow certain games to run?

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:06:01 -0400

Right click on game icon. Go to "run as". Chose an account with
administrator privileges. 

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Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Shaun @ http://twinworld.ca/" 
<Shaunhttptwinworldca@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:BCE99C71-5AE5-4F70-B69B-0563FEE8C531@microsoft.com...
> 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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