Propogating settings to users' profiles

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I have a piece of software that does not show up in any othe user profile
except for the account in which it was installed.

The problem is that we have users that cannot install software in their
accounts, so that I have to set up the software in an administrative account
and then somehow copy the settings to the low-level user accounts.
 
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abnewallo said:
I have a piece of software that does not show up in any othe user
profile except for the account in which it was installed.

The problem is that we have users that cannot install software in
their accounts, so that I have to set up the software in an
administrative account and then somehow copy the settings to the
low-level user accounts.
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What software? What settings? If these are just shortcuts to the program,
copy the program's shortcut folder from <username>\start menu\programs to
<all users>\start menu\programs.
 
abnewallo said:
I have a piece of software that does not show up in any othe user profile
except for the account in which it was installed.

The problem is that we have users that cannot install software in their
accounts, so that I have to set up the software in an administrative account
and then somehow copy the settings to the low-level user accounts.
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This happens because the person who wrote the installation
program was incompetent. To solve the problem you must
move the shortcut for this application from its current location
to the "All Users" profile (either the Desktop or the Start Menu
folder).
 
Yes. I thought the same of the application developer myself. Thanks for
such a promt reply.
 
Thanks. I will give it a try.

Lanwench said:
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What software? What settings? If these are just shortcuts to the program,
copy the program's shortcut folder from <username>\start menu\programs to
<all users>\start menu\programs.
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I had once ACDSee 4 installed in my W2K PC. For some grave reason (not the subject here), my profile got corrupt, and I had to accept the new one Windows had created, and to retrieve what I could from the copy Windows did of the corrupt one (In W2K and WXP, a "User Profile" is the folder with that user's name right under "Documents and Settings", so you lose a lot of data in such a case).

When I tried to launch ACDSee 4 from another user, of course I had to copy the shortcut into All Users' Start menu, but then ACDSee refused to launch, explicitly saying that the program had not been installed for that user. Only some features did launch from secondary paths, e.g. double-clicking an image launched just the image viewer; but the main window of ACDSee 4 remained unavailable.

FWIW

Paris, Tue 5 Sep 2006 13:23:40 +0200


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Yes. I thought the same of the application developer myself. Thanks for such a promt reply.


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This happens because the person who wrote the installation program was incompetent. To solve the problem you must move the shortcut for this application from its current location to the "All Users" profile (either the Desktop or the Start Menu folder).


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Subject: Propogating settings to users' profiles

I have a piece of software that does not show up in any othe user profile except for the account in which it was installed.

The problem is that we have users that cannot install software in their accounts, so that I have to set up the software in an administrative account and then somehow copy the settings to the low-level user accounts.
 
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