Selective Starting of Program for Administrator Only.

[Richard A. King]

Windows XP Pro, SP2, IE7

I have a program, FWManager.exe which checks the Firmware version of my
Samsung DVD drive.
If any user of my pc, other than myself, logs in, they get an error message:-
"Please log in with Admin account
You don't have right to use this program"

I have contacted Samsung support without any response. The program seems to
be started from the following registry key:-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

"Name of App"="C:\\Program Files\\SAMSUNG\\FW LiveUpdate\\FWManager.exe r"

Is there anyway I can change this so FWManager.exe only starts when I log
in, to avoid the other users, who include my young grandchldren, having to
deal with this error message.

 

[jake]

alot of programs will check the hclm to see if the entry exist if not it will
rewrite it so deleting it will not make a difference.
So follow james long directions then go msconfig and disable the entry for
hclm from running at startup

 

[Richard A. King]

Thank you James,

That solved the problem perfectly. Pity Smasung cannot be as prompt in their
responses.
--
Regards, Richard

absolutely yes you can.
move the entry to HKCU at same offset
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

as well as every/anything else for you or for them respectively.
you just have to be logged into the destination user,
who will aways appear as hkcu.

hklm applies to all users.

James

Windows XP Pro, SP2, IE7

I have a program, FWManager.exe which checks the Firmware version of my
Samsung DVD drive.
If any user of my pc, other than myself, logs in, they get an error
message:-
"Please log in with Admin account
You don't have right to use this program"

I have contacted Samsung support without any response. The program seems
to
be started from the following registry key:-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

"Name of App"="C:\\Program Files\\SAMSUNG\\FW LiveUpdate\\FWManager.exe r"

Is there anyway I can change this so FWManager.exe only starts when I log
in, to avoid the other users, who include my young grandchldren, having to
deal with this error message.

 

[Richard A. King]

I exported the key from HKLM with REGEDIT and opened the .reg file with
notebook.
I used this to add the key to HKCU, again with REGEDIT then deleted the HKLM
key.
I restarted the pc and check with MSCONFIG. There was no sign of the entry
against HKLM in Startup, only against HKCU.
--
Regards, Richard

alot of programs will check the hclm to see if the entry exist if not it will
rewrite it so deleting it will not make a difference.
So follow james long directions then go msconfig and disable the entry for
hclm from running at startup

Windows XP Pro, SP2, IE7

I have a program, FWManager.exe which checks the Firmware version of my
Samsung DVD drive.
If any user of my pc, other than myself, logs in, they get an error message:-
"Please log in with Admin account
You don't have right to use this program"

I have contacted Samsung support without any response. The program seems to
be started from the following registry key:-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

"Name of App"="C:\\Program Files\\SAMSUNG\\FW LiveUpdate\\FWManager.exe r"

Is there anyway I can change this so FWManager.exe only starts when I log
in, to avoid the other users, who include my young grandchldren, having to
deal with this error message.