Will anyone PLEASE answer this 7+ day old query???

[John Castle]

When I set my wife and kids up with Limited user
accounts, programms like Outlook and IE don't work. If I
create Administrator accounts for them everything is
fine, but that defeats the object of having separate
accounts ie ref security of my files. How do I get
Limited accounst to work properly? Surely this is a basic
selling point XP to home users.

 

[Anthony Ewell]

When I set my wife and kids up with Limited user
accounts, programms like Outlook and IE don't work. If I
create Administrator accounts for them everything is
fine, but that defeats the object of having separate
accounts ie ref security of my files. How do I get
Limited accounst to work properly? Surely this is a basic
selling point XP to home users.

John,

This has been a constant frustration for many of my
users. They must have administrator privileges to run
various programs, such as Word Perfect, yada, yada.
Basically, you are stuck with it.

If it drives you too crazy, you can look at Linux,
which doesn't have this issue. Mozilla Firefox browser
and Mozilla Thunder eMail client work very, very nicely
in Linux (they work well in Windows too). Problem with Linux
is that it only has about 1/10,000th of the programs
that Windows does -- even less than Apple. Linux also has
a steeper learning curve.

I just "hold my nose" and live with it.

--Tony

 

[Roger Abell]

Something must be goofed on your Home edition,
as IE and OE should not be showing this behavior.
Third-party and older MS apps will show this, but
those should not.
When apps show this it is most often due to lack of
permissions on the directory where the application
was installed. At a start / run cmd prompt, use of
cacls "c:\program files\app dir" /e /t /g users:c
will grant limited users ability to write throughout
the folders of the application that installed at "app dir"
When this is not sufficient, then one next most often
needs to grant Users group ability to modify the apps
entries in the registry.

In all cases, one should tell the application vendor of
one's lack of satisfaction that the app did not run out-of-
the-box, as the application if written to the Windows
certified spec would not require this run-around.
Just keep in mind that MS is not in a position to require
vendors to write apps that behave well, but consumers
are able to influence this with purchase power.

Now, the issue is, why are you having problems with
IE and OE ??