Need Help with Windows XP Home Edition option

[Guest]

Hi,

Does any one know how do I enable the option in Windows XP Home Edition so
that I can add users so an application may be used by multiple accounts?

Much Help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Egan

 

[Bob I]

Copy or move the application shortcut to the All Users, Start Menu

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Try placing a shortcut to the program in the All Users account
[C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs].
This should make the programs available to all users.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Hi,
|
| Does any one know how do I enable the option in Windows XP Home Edition so
| that I can add users so an application may be used by multiple accounts?
|
| Much Help is appreciated.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Sincerely,
| Egan

 

[Malke]

Hi,

Does any one know how do I enable the option in Windows XP Home
Edition so that I can add users so an application may be used by
multiple accounts?

To add users go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel. Make your
new accounts. As for making applications available to those accounts,
it depends on the application. Many programs written to be used on
multi-user operating systems like XP will ask you during the
installation if they are to be available to all users or just to the
user installing them. If you chose the former, you don't need to do
anything. If you chose the latter, uninstall the program and reinstall
it again with desired option.

If you are talking about shortcuts to programs appearing on users' Start
Menus, right-click on the Start button and choose "Explore All Users".
This will give you a two-paned Explorer window showing all the Start
Menus for all users on the system. Right-click-drag-copy shortcuts to
Start Menus as desired.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,

Does any one know how do I enable the option in Windows XP Home Edition so
that I can add users so an application may be used by multiple accounts?

Much Help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Egan

You may experience some problems if the software was designed for
Win9x/Me, or if it was intended for WinNT/2K/XP, but was improperly
designed. Quite simply, the application doesn't "know" how to handle
individual user profiles with differing security permissions levels, or
the application is designed to make to make changes to "off-limits"
sections of the Windows registry or protected Windows system folders.

For example, saved data are often stored in a sub-folder under the
application's folder within C:\Program Files - a place where no
inexperienced or limited user should ever have write permissions.

It may even be that the software requires "write" access to parts
of the registry or protected systems folders/files that are not normally
accessible to regular users. (This *won't* occur if the application is
properly written.) If this does prove to be the case, however, you're
often left with three options: Either grant the necessary users
appropriate higher access privileges (either as Power Users or local
administrators), explicitly grant normal users elevated privileges to
the affected folders and/or part(s) or the registry, or replace the
application with one that was properly designed specifically for
WinNT/2K/XP.

Some Programs Do Not Work If You Log On from Limited Account
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307091

Additionally, here are a couple of tips suggested, in a reply to a
different post, by MS-MVP Kent W. England:

"If your game or application works with admin accounts, but not with
limited accounts, you can fix it to allow limited users to access the
program files folder with "change" capability rather than "read" which
is the default.

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:c

where "appfolder" is the folder where the application is installed.

If you wish to undo these changes, then run

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p users:r

If you still have a problem with running the program or saving
settings on limited accounts, you may need to change permissions on
the registry keys. Run regedit.exe and go to HKLM\Software\vendor\app,
where "vendor\app" is the key that the software vendor used for your
specific program. Change the permissions on this key to allow Users
full control."




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Bruce Chambers

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