Missing Users folder under management

[Guest]

I am still having some issues regarding XP Home SP2 and trying to run
Microsoft Flight Simulator Century of Flight or FS9/FS2004. I'm getting a
dialog box that reads, "Please log on with Administrator Privileges and try
again." The sim does not start, after clicking the icon, there is a pause
and then the above dialog box shows up on my screen.

One of the troubleshooting links I found the other day stated that I should
check my user settings for certain rights. Some thing you may need to know
first: There is only one account on this computer it is, as far as I know
the default administrator's account. This single account has administrative
privleges. I can add and delete other accounts, though doing so doesn't
seem to help matters any.

Any how getting back to the recommended solution from the tech site said to
right click on "My Computer", click on "Management", then open the "Users"
folder on the tree. So I click to the Computer Management window and there
is no "Users" folder listed in my tree! What gives? Where is my "Users"
folder on that tree? Can that folder be restored?, inserted?, added?

If so How do I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Ted Hadden

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

The local users and group snapin, lusrmgr.msc, does not exist in a WinXP
Home installation, therefore it will not show in the computer management
screen. What you have is a permissions problem. Open a command prompt (click
start/run, type cmd and click ok), then run this:

cacls <program_folder_path>\*.* /g <username>:F

Make sure there are spaces after cacls, *.*, and the /g

<Program_folder_path> refers to the installation location of the program
files, usually C:\Program files\some_directory

That last piece (username) is the account name, followed by a colon, then F.
If your account has administrator privileges, then this should allow your
account to execute the files needed to run the simulator.

So for example, if it is installed to C:\Program files\Flight Sim, and your
user account name is Ted, then it'd be:

cacls C:\Program files\Flight Sim\*.* /g Ted:F

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Rick,

Thanks for the reply. However I must inform you that after serveral
attempts at doing this, including, using the /p option in the command line I
still get no joy from this.

Just so that you know, I also have a thread going with Jimmy S. a little
further down in these these forums and can be found
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...ames&mid=3fbf3010-16a9-407a-8697-ef3f630db996

I do not want to trouble both of you by having the same suggestion thrown
out twice.

My intent with this thread was to find out if I indeed needed the "Users"
folder under the Computer Mangement window, and you verified that I did not.
So that's settled.

I have also contacted customer support for XP since I had 2 available free
support contacts ... and was told by the support person there that I needed
to contact the games group and not the O.S. group.

I don't feel that's the case. Both O.S. and game were working in perfect
harmony in XP Home and XP Home SP1 ... something that changed in the settings
with SP2 has caused this problem. I'll be hanged if I can find it.

I can uninstall SP2 and FS9 works just fine!?? What's up with that?

I appreciate your help.

Ted Hadden

 

[Guest]

Rick,

I think I know the problem as to why you suggestion did not apply. Both my
drives are FAT32 and not NTFS.

Ted

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Yes, that would be correct, as permissions do not apply in FAT32. Have you
tried reinstalling the program while logged on as that user?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org