Installing games for multipule users under xp

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Guest

I'm running XP pro, and have a user account for myself (with admin
privilages) and my son with (restricted access). I installed Age of Empires 2
from my login, and the game runs fine, but from my sons it won't, even though
it appeared on his menu's automatically during install.
 
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Josh D.

It could be that you installed the game while both users
were logged in... I dont know if that affects it but I
installed the Sims expansion pack.. one of them and the
other user it doesnt work... maybe if u uninstalled it
and reinstalled it with only admin logged in, if u were
logged on both at same time.
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi NZ Maarten,

Give your son's account Administrator rights, and then
run the game once. This should grant permissions to his
account to access the files and registry settings he needs.

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| Unfortunitley I wasn't logged in on both at the time of install...
| cheers
|
| "Josh D." wrote:
|
| > It could be that you installed the game while both users
| > were logged in... I dont know if that affects it but I
| > installed the Sims expansion pack.. one of them and the
| > other user it doesnt work... maybe if u uninstalled it
| > and reinstalled it with only admin logged in, if u were
| > logged on both at same time.
| >
| >
| > >-----Original Message-----
| > >I'm running XP pro, and have a user account for myself
| > (with admin
| > >privilages) and my son with (restricted access). I
| > installed Age of Empires 2
| > >from my login, and the game runs fine, but from my sons
| > it won't, even though
| > >it appeared on his menu's automatically during install.
| > >.
| > >
| >
 

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