User Privileges in XP Home

[Mark H]

I think I may be fighting the inevitable but here goes!

I need to install some Oracle software on a new laptop
that has XP Home as the OS. The software I need to put
on there requires certain User Privileges to be set to
allow it to operate. This is easily done in XP Pro, NT
etc but I've never tried installing this software on an
XP Home machine before.

I need to know if there is anyway of setting user
privileges in XP Home as I can't find a way anywhere so
far. I am almost certain this has been restricted or is
not available for XP Home but maybe there is a way round
this? FYI the three extra privileges I need to grant to
the Administrator user are 'Act as part of the operating
system' - 'Increase quotas' - 'Replace a process level
token'.

As I said, I am almost certain this can't be done with XP
Home. XP Pro is no problem but I really need to set up
this software on a machine that is running XP Home. Any
help at all will be very gratefully received.

Thanks!

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

What type of Oracle software, client, enterprise manager, database,
etc. Also, what does Larry's website say (www.oracle.com)?

 

[Mark]

Its Oracle Express Server, their BI Analysis database
software. I've used it for ages now and installed it on
all flavours of OS apart from XP Home. One of my clients
wants to try and get it on his laptop so he can run a
small database and analysis system standalone. Where it
XP Pro, NT or anything else it would be no problems as
its not a monster application and often gets used for
stand-alone stuff. The issue is that part of the
installation and set up of Express Server is you need to
assign those advanced privileges before it will spring
into life.

Uncle Larry's tech support website, Metalink, says the
software is certified with XP but then I knew that
already as I've got it up and running on XP Pro before
now. I'm guessing that the certification should actually
say XP Pro only though. I've dropped them a mail but I'm
not holding my breath as its hardly an urgent matter.

Not that any of that matters I guess, as it looks like
you can't tinker with user privileges in XP Home. Which
is, I guess, why its cheaper than XP Pro ;-).