Running Old Programs on XP Without Sysadmin Priv

[Rich Osedacz]

I am trying to install a series of older games on my
computer running WinXP-Home and some only work under the
Sysadmin account. I sent a question off to the computer
manufacturer and they pointed me to a MS KnowledgeBase
article. The article basically says to run the program
with sysadmin credentials. This would give users the
password of the sysadmin account thereby giving them free
reign of the computer (a bad thing with my kids).

Is there anything I can do other than the above? Is there
a retail or shareware product that will allow me to run
games under the user accounts without giving users the
sysadmin password?

 

[Jeff]

Try upgrading users to power users that need to run those
applications or upgrade user rights in the group policy
editor.