user and group troubles

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Windows 2000 domain. After I load an application such as
Auotcoad as local Administrator on either a win 2000 pro
or win xp pro workstation then log on to the domain as a
general user I cannot get the application to run without
giving the user local Admin rights on the said workstation.
I try the local power user group and that works for the
most part but some features of the software don't work
such as translators etc.. Autodesk says the user has to
have local Admin rights but that can't happen due to our
company policy. This happens with many software packages
including UG CATIA etc... Someone please help stop the
insanity I have alot of users that switch PC's and it's
bad when they can't use a PC because I haven't added them
to the user and groups of the local machine. Anyone know
why this would be happening?
 
Apps that are not written to the Windows specification cause
no end of headaches. Complain to the vendor so that they will
eventually get the message.
Many time all that one needs to do is to grant the Users group
change on the applications installation directory. Sometimes
applications expect some temp file location to which Users do
not have permissions, sometimes the app has a .ini file in the
system directory, and sometimes applications want to write
into areas of the registry where a Users member is not allowed.
You can use regmon and filemon from www.sysinternals.com
to trace execution failure and discover where the app is throwing
access violations.
 
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