My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin account.
Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the program work?
Thanks in advance

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<Todd> wrote in message news:c4i63v0sl65iu04c0vtqp3kf9
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> My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
> Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
> under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
> and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
> program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin account.
> Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the program work?
> Thanks in advance

Add you wife's normal user account to the local administrator's group using
the Users icon in Control Panel.

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Andy Barkl <abarkl@NOSPAM.wetrainit.com> wrote:
> <Todd> wrote in message
> news:c4i63v0sl65iu04c0vtqp3kf9
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>> My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
>> Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
>> under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
>> and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
>> program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin
>> account. Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the
>> program work? Thanks in advance
>
> Add you wife's normal user account to the local administrator's group
> using the Users icon in Control Panel.

Wouldn't that be bad, security wise?

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Tony Sivori

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Going by "Best Practices" yes, putting someone in the Administrator group
just to run a program is bad. I am not familiar with the program you
mention but you might try putting her in the "Power Users" group instead.
They can run many applications that normal users can't. If doing that
doesn't fix the problem, the other thing I can suggest is to install the
program again (without removing it first) while she is still a member of
Power users. Also you might check the vendors web site to see if they have
any compatibility updates for Win 2000.

Sierrahtl



"Tony Sivori" <TonySivori@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Andy Barkl <abarkl@NOSPAM.wetrainit.com> wrote:
> > <Todd> wrote in message
> > news:c4i63v0sl65iu04c0vtqp3kf9
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> >> My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
> >> Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
> >> under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
> >> and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
> >> program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin
> >> account. Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the
> >> program work? Thanks in advance
> >
> > Add you wife's normal user account to the local administrator's group
> > using the Users icon in Control Panel.
>
> Wouldn't that be bad, security wise?
>
> --
> Tony Sivori
>
>

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The scenario here is that it is their personal computer. She already
has administraror access but probably wants to use her regular user account
because her profile is set up the way she wants it under that account. ---
Steve

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> Andy Barkl <abarkl@NOSPAM.wetrainit.com> wrote:
> > <Todd> wrote in message
> > news:c4i63v0sl65iu04c0vtqp3kf9
313tgs21u@4ax.com...
> >> My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
> >> Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
> >> under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
> >> and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
> >> program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin
> >> account. Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the
> >> program work? Thanks in advance
> >
> > Add you wife's normal user account to the local administrator's group
> > using the Users icon in Control Panel.
>
> Wouldn't that be bad, security wise?
>
> --
> Tony Sivori
>
>

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Steven L Umbach <n9rou@attbi.com> wrote:
> The scenario here is that it is their personal computer. She
> already has administraror access but probably wants to use her
> regular user account because her profile is set up the way she wants
> it under that account. --- Steve

Right. But the concern is that as she browses the web, she may run into some
malware that tries to install itself. I am no expert, but I thought browsing
the web, opening email and the like logged in as admin was a classic
security mistake.

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Tony Sivori

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When convenient it makes sense to not use a local machine administrator
account. Problem is sometimes a user can not do what they need to do with a
user/power user account. Protecting against physical access, having a hard
to crack password, doing critical windows updates, firewall protection, and
virus protection are more important issues for a workstation. Viruses/worms
do not usually need to have an administrator logged on to do their thing -
they expolit weaknesses in the operating system or obtain system access .
The big issue is when you are talking about a DOMAIN administrator account.
A user with domain administrator priviliges should only use that account
when necessary to do domain administration and use their regular user
account for other activities. --- Steve


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> Steven L Umbach <n9rou@attbi.com> wrote:
> > The scenario here is that it is their personal computer. She
> > already has administraror access but probably wants to use her
> > regular user account because her profile is set up the way she wants
> > it under that account. --- Steve
>
> Right. But the concern is that as she browses the web, she may run into
some
> malware that tries to install itself. I am no expert, but I thought
browsing
> the web, opening email and the like logged in as admin was a classic
> security mistake.
>
> --
> Tony Sivori
>
>
>

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Thanks for all of your suggestions so far, I have tried some of these
suggestions but they fail to work. I have been to the manufacturers
website with no luck so far. I will keep searching the web. Again
thanks for your help.
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:40:46 -0800, Todd <Todd> wrote:

>My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
>Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
>under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
>and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
>program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin account.
>Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the program work?
>Thanks in advance

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It's a possibility that it could have something to do with resgistry entries
for particular users. I've seen it under Win2k before where certain
registry keys need to be exported from one account to another.
This will depend on the application. An alternative way, would be to add
your wifes normal account to the administrators group. Log on under the
normal account, and re-install the app. After this, test it thoroughly, and
if it works move the account back to the original group.

Worth a try!
<Todd> wrote in message news:klf93vkidjgt1qfvcv44g1fq9
r1hpvr5bm@4ax.com...
> Thanks for all of your suggestions so far, I have tried some of these
> suggestions but they fail to work. I have been to the manufacturers
> website with no luck so far. I will keep searching the web. Again
> thanks for your help.
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:40:46 -0800, Todd <Todd> wrote:
>
> >My wife's pc has W2K on it. And she installed an audio program(Fruity
> >Loops 3) under her Administrator account and then when she logs on
> >under her normal user account the program appears on the Start Menu
> >and when she attempts to run it, it gives a error message that the
> >program has not been registered, it runs fine under her admin account.
> >Could someone tell me what needs to be done to make the program work?
> >Thanks in advance
>

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