A problem or an opportunity? Please help.

[David]

I have a kid who is set up as a User on an XP (home) machine. He is not
Admin to avoid download and install of games/spyware/RATs etc. He does not
know the Admin password.

One game requires him to be Admin to run. Won't work as a User.

One way is to use RunAs, but an Admin has to run it for him in the first
place (remember he doesn't know the password).

How do I create an icon with the Admin and password embedded in a command
line to avoid having to run this program for him using RunAs???? Or anything
else? Any other way????

How does the /savecred switch work (too bad its disabled anyway on a XP Home
machine).

Any ideas welcome.

David

 

[Jerry]

I would complain to the game people about the situation.

 

[Steve N.]

I have a kid who is set up as a User on an XP (home) machine. He is not
Admin to avoid download and install of games/spyware/RATs etc. He does not
know the Admin password.

One game requires him to be Admin to run. Won't work as a User.

One way is to use RunAs, but an Admin has to run it for him in the first
place (remember he doesn't know the password).

How do I create an icon with the Admin and password embedded in a command
line to avoid having to run this program for him using RunAs???? Or anything
else? Any other way????

How does the /savecred switch work (too bad its disabled anyway on a XP Home
machine).

Any ideas welcome.

David

Pain in the butt in XP Home but it can be done for most programs I've
run into this with. Make note of the files/folders mentioned in error
message when trying to run the game as normal user. Start in Safe Mode,
login as Administrator (password is blank by default in Home), locate
the folders/files you noted, right click each, go to security tab and
give Users full permissions to them. Start normal, login as normal user,
run the game, if more errors occur repeat the above process. Repeat all
of the above until game works.

Steve

 

[Amanda Wang [MSFT]]

Hi David,

Thanks for your post. I have give you the answer in another thread
27759820--User running just one program as Admin? Can it be done?as
followingf:

I understand that you want to create an icon with the Admin and password
embedded in a command line to avoid having to run this program for him
using RunAs. If I have misunderstood your concern, please feel free to let
me know.

Based on my experience, you can fulfill the function by writing a cmd file.
Please perform the following steps:

1. Open a notepad.exe
2. Write the RunAs command in the notepad
3. Save it as *.cmd file

Then the kid can run this file whenever he wants to play the game.

Hope that helps.

Thanks & Regards

Amanda Wang [MSFT]

Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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