Couldn't the OP use the runas option to run the games from the limited user's
account? There was a way to set it up using that option and encrypt the password
with a script so the limited user wouldn't know the admin's password.
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Regards,
Durand
| The Bad |
| Depending on how well-written the game is, you may have to make the other
| users Administrators too. Many applications make the (IMHO bogus) assumption
| that every user is an administrator. This has the effect of cutting the
| knees out from under security of the system. Games are particularly bad
| about this, but they aren't the only ones.
|
| Depending on how much work you want to do, you could turn on auditing of
| failed object accesses, then run the game as a non-admin and see what
| objects denied the user access, then tweak the files and registry keys to
| grant that access to those users, but it's often a big headache and you're
| often taking a hit in Security (because usually there's a good reason
| non-Admins aren't allowed into those registry keys...).
|
| Your best bet is probably to contact the manufacturer of the game (or the
| gamer community associated with it) and see if there's a patch.
|
| The Good News is that Microsoft is working with developers to keep them from
| doing this in new applications. Unfortunately, that won't help you with AoE2
| :-(
|
| Good Luck!
| -Dave
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|
| | > How can I share games like "Age of Empires II" so other
| > users can save games and play. I am the administrator.
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