hi.
i am having problems in a limited account playing a game in xp home edition.
the account has been set for a child to prevent changes to os. however, there
is one game that does not work in limited account, but works fine in admin
account. The game requires the cd during use. i have changed the account to
admin, tried installing the game and changing back to limited without success.

I have looked at an ms article that warns that some programmes won't work
and advise to temporarily or permanently change to admin but this is not
really an option.

is there a way round this?

TIA

alex01 wrote:
> hi.
> i am having problems in a limited account playing a game in xp home edition.
> the account has been set for a child to prevent changes to os. however, there
> is one game that does not work in limited account, but works fine in admin
> account. The game requires the cd during use. i have changed the account to
> admin, tried installing the game and changing back to limited without success.
>
> I have looked at an ms article that warns that some programmes won't work
> and advise to temporarily or permanently change to admin but this is not
> really an option.
>
> is there a way round this?
>
> TIA
>
What error messages do you get when you try to run the game in the
Limited account? What happens?

Normally the problem involves permissions. If the game is old and is
trying to write to an area of the hard drive forbidden to a Limited
account, you can get around this by determining exactly where this is.
The free Sysinternals utilities filemon and regmon can help. Run the
game and the utilities in an administrative account and make a note of
the locations. Then change the permissions to Everyone Full on just
those specific locations. Since you have XP Home, you'll need to go into
Safe Mode to see the security tab.

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/default.mspx

An alternative (if the game is a current version) is to contact the game
mftr.'s tech support for workarounds, patches, and/or the information
about where the game is trying to write.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

hi malke,

i failed to mention that the machine is not mine and am looking for
instructions to pass on to the owners. i doubt if they will be able or
willing to try your first suggestion. it looks like i'll have to take the
advice of your latter suggestion and see where that leads. but thanks for
your prompt reply.

"Malke" wrote:

> alex01 wrote:
> > hi.
> > i am having problems in a limited account playing a game in xp home edition.
> > the account has been set for a child to prevent changes to os. however, there
> > is one game that does not work in limited account, but works fine in admin
> > account. The game requires the cd during use. i have changed the account to
> > admin, tried installing the game and changing back to limited without success.
> >
> > I have looked at an ms article that warns that some programmes won't work
> > and advise to temporarily or permanently change to admin but this is not
> > really an option.
> >
> > is there a way round this?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> What error messages do you get when you try to run the game in the
> Limited account? What happens?
>
> Normally the problem involves permissions. If the game is old and is
> trying to write to an area of the hard drive forbidden to a Limited
> account, you can get around this by determining exactly where this is.
> The free Sysinternals utilities filemon and regmon can help. Run the
> game and the utilities in an administrative account and make a note of
> the locations. Then change the permissions to Everyone Full on just
> those specific locations. Since you have XP Home, you'll need to go into
> Safe Mode to see the security tab.
>
> How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/default.mspx
>
> An alternative (if the game is a current version) is to contact the game
> mftr.'s tech support for workarounds, patches, and/or the information
> about where the game is trying to write.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>