Guest and Limited Accounts Can't Access Programs

[Guest]

I have set up a computer administrator and also a limited account and a guest account. However, the limited and guest accounts cannot open any programs that I have installed under the admin account. I have tried going into the properties for the program and checked allow to be run by other users, but this does not help. If I upgrade the users account to computer administrator they can then access the programs. Is there a fix out for this yet?

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

I have set up a computer administrator and also a limited account and
a guest account. However, the limited and guest accounts cannot open
any programs that I have installed under the admin account. I have
tried going into the properties for the program and checked allow to
be run by other users, but this does not help. If I upgrade the
users account to computer administrator they can then access the
programs. Is there a fix out for this yet?

The proper fix is for the vendor programmers who write the installer to
understand and follow the XP rules.

These problems are usually due to installers that require users to write
to files in Program Files and registry keys in LOCAL_MACHINE. These
locations are restricted for members of the Users group (limited
accounts) in XP. You might call these Windows 9x based installers.

Give users permission to write to the Program Files folder where the
application was installed. If it still won't work, give users permission
to write to the application registry keys in HKLM.

Sometimes if you run the program from the account as an admin and then
downgrade the account to a limited account, the application will still run.

 

[Roger Abell]

Whether there is a fix depends on the supplier of the application.
As a first attempt, set permissions on the application's install
folder so that limited accounts can write there.
Say the app installed to c:\program files\vendor\application
Start / Run cmd and in the cmd prompt enter
cacls "c:\program files\vendor\applicationcac" /e /t /g users:c
(do not forget the /e !)
This will cover both limited and guest accounts, since for local
login guest accounts are limited accounts, and membership in
Users is what defines limited accounts.
If this does not solve the problem then it will next most likely
be a permissions issue on the registry settings area of the application
in HKLM\Software where one could try granting Users modigy rights.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA

I have set up a computer administrator and also a limited account and a

guest account. However, the limited and guest accounts cannot open any
programs that I have installed under the admin account. I have tried going
into the properties for the program and checked allow to be run by other
users, but this does not help. If I upgrade the users account to computer
administrator they can then access the programs. Is there a fix out for
this yet?