Rights Issue?

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Aaron Todd

I have a program that I installed while logged in as the administrator user.
The program runs fine and it works great. When I login as a different user
it isnt so good. My other user belongs to the USERS group so it has many
restrictions. One of the errors I get is that it can not write to a INI
file that resides in the C:\WINDOWS directory.

Is there a tool I can use to allow this user to get read/write access to
this file?

I hope someone can help.

Thanks,

Aaron
 
This is an all too common situation with software that
is not designed to meet the Windows certification criteria.

There is a cmd prompt utility named cacls that can be used
to adjust permissions of files and folders.
Start \ Rum cmd and into the cmd window enter
cacls /?
for full info on the options of cacls

If the ini file is named (in full path form)
C:\Windows\My Application.ini
then to grant Users group members the ability to change this
one file you could use
cacls "C:\Windows\My Application.ini" /e /g Users:C

You may also adjust NTFS permissions using the Security
tab within the properties of the file when in a safe mode boot.
 
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