Software Installations

[Patrick Velardi]

In our small office using Win2000 I install a software application logged in
to the local machine as an administrator. However when the user of the
machine logs in to use the software she is not allowed to. The application
does not appear in her start menu.

Can anyone help out with how to install an application so that a user
without admin rights on the machine can also use it? Thanks.

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Patrick A. Velardi
Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.rossarts.org

 

[Jerold Schulman]

In our small office using Win2000 I install a software application logged in
to the local machine as an administrator. However when the user of the
machine logs in to use the software she is not allowed to. The application
does not appear in her start menu.

Can anyone help out with how to install an application so that a user
without admin rights on the machine can also use it? Thanks.

How an application installs is up to the developer.

After you install:
1. Copy the start menu shortcuts to the All Users start menu.
2. If the application installed any registry keys in the Administrators HKCU
hive, copy those entries to each user.
3. If the application installed any registry keys in HKLM, grant Users the
permissions required on those keys.
4. If the application requires read/write access to file system objects, grant
the users the required access.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com