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

From: Juergen Heinzl (sigsegv_at_web.de)
Date: 08/10/04

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    "Shaun @ http://twinworld.ca/" <Shaunhttptwinworldca@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
    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).
    [-]
    A common problem with software not designed for Windows 2000 at least.

    > 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.
    [-]
    See http://www.sysinternals.com/ and regmon may help to find out which registry
    entries an application tries to read / write and, at least with XP Pro, it is possible
    to change the permissions of registry entries, too.

    It's surely a bit of a pain, yet you'd add a group "Games" for instance, add the
    people who play games to that group and then set the relevant permissions such
    "Games" can read or write or both the relevant entries or subtree of the registry.

    Hope it helps,
    Juergen

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