C&C 3 Will Not run under a user account

[John Harris]

The game installed and ran fine under my admin account, but when my son
tries to run it under his standard account it says he does not have
permissions. I have allowed the game in the Parental Control and have
checked as many permissions settings as I know but it says he does not have
permission to run the file. Anyone know what I am missing here?

TIA

 

[Conor]

The game installed and ran fine under my admin account, but when my son
tries to run it under his standard account it says he does not have
permissions. I have allowed the game in the Parental Control and have
checked as many permissions settings as I know but it says he does not have
permission to run the file. Anyone know what I am missing here?

Badly written software. Many games require admin privelidges to run
because they're badly written in respect to this. One option is to
modify the shortcut to "Run as Other User" and select your account but
it does mean he'll need your password.

 

[Paul Smith]

The game installed and ran fine under my admin account, but when my son
tries to run it under his standard account it says he does not have
permissions. I have allowed the game in the Parental Control and have
checked as many permissions settings as I know but it says he does not
have permission to run the file. Anyone know what I am missing here?

Hello John.

I've noticed Command and Conquer 3 has an issues with the patcher. On my
machine all the files the patcher touched lost read access for the users
group.

If you go to Program Files -> Electronic Arts -> and right click on Command
& Conquer 3 click properties, then click on the security tab.

Click Advanced down the bottom of the window and then click Edit on the next
screen you should have a box to check called 'Replace all existing
inheritable permissions on all descendents with inheritable permissions from
this object' (phew) check that OK your way back out, it'll go ahead and set
the normal permissions back on all those objects.

It should then work.

Other than this major oversight, the game runs as a standard user fine.
Hope that helps.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[JOHN HARRIS]

Thanks. I did not go that far into the permissions. I will try that tonight.

 

[Paul Smith]

If that makes no sense, here's a tidied up version with pictures.

http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/2007/04/03/command_and_conquer_3_problems_with_sta

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[JOHN HARRIS]

Outstanding. Thanks for going above and beyond. Much appreciated.