Can't use programs in other profiles?

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Ok, I know I could go on forever here, my heart is beating so fast. But I know I have to take it easy. I want nothing more than to talk to a Microsoft person, but I cant afford 250 bucks

I need to know what the recommended way is to set up an XP machine. I work at a company and we have about 100 xps which I ghosted. But those work fine. Now when it comes to doing them individually for the rest of our users I am having NOTHING but problems

For example, what I do is I log in as a local account named installer. Installer belongs to the Admin group. I install everything this person needs. Now, I used to log off and log back in as admin, and then I'd copy the profile to the default profile so that she gets this profile and anyone else who logs in will get it too. Has worked great for me until now. Some programs won't work right, because it's like it is not having access to all the same DLLS. I wont be able to register a whole slew of dlls under any other account besides "installer". The thing is, any user that goes in is either local to the PC (just as a test) but most are on our domain, and everyone on our PCs is an admin (we have domain users in admin - not a good idea I know). And half the program's won't work correctly! But as soon as I go back in as installer, voila, everything works just fine. I talked to a support guy for one of the programs I was using and he said I will probably have to install the program as the person who will use the PC and that is the only way it will work, due to differnet system files being used. I mean how stupid! And I will get "Unexpected error" constantly with a lot of my programs and they wont even load. Can't register any dlls ocx etc...what am I supposed to do? I don't understand what I am doing wrong!??!?!!

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Pure and simple, most applications weren't designed to run in a multi-user
environment. In the home, I'd just suggest installing the applications
separately in each user account. I can see in your case, that would be
quite a task.

You might be able to resolve this using the Group Policy Editor. Please see
the following Knowledge Base Article for information about GPE and how to
use it. NOTE: Group Policy Editor is not available on XP Home Edition, only
XP Pro.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307882

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Windows Shell/User
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Ok, I know I could go on forever here, my heart is beating so fast. But I

know I have to take it easy. I want nothing more than to talk to a
Microsoft person, but I cant afford 250 bucks.

I need to know what the recommended way is to set up an XP machine. I

work at a company and we have about 100 xps which I ghosted. But those work
fine. Now when it comes to doing them individually for the rest of our
users I am having NOTHING but problems.

For example, what I do is I log in as a local account named installer.

Installer belongs to the Admin group. I install everything this person
needs. Now, I used to log off and log back in as admin, and then I'd copy
the profile to the default profile so that she gets this profile and anyone
else who logs in will get it too. Has worked great for me until now. Some
programs won't work right, because it's like it is not having access to all
the same DLLS. I wont be able to register a whole slew of dlls under any
other account besides "installer". The thing is, any user that goes in is
either local to the PC (just as a test) but most are on our domain, and
everyone on our PCs is an admin (we have domain users in admin - not a good
idea I know). And half the program's won't work correctly! But as soon as
I go back in as installer, voila, everything works just fine. I talked to a
support guy for one of the programs I was using and he said I will probably
have to install the program as the person who will use the PC and that is
the only way it will work, due to differnet system files being used. I mean
how stupid! And I will get "Unexpected error" constantly with a lot of my
programs and they wont even load. Can't register any dlls ocx etc...what am
I supposed to do? I don't understand what I am doing wrong!??!?!!