Here at the Barre SU we have had some success installing legacy apps to the 
"Shared Documents" folder and/or changing permissions on folders where the 
app expects to be able to write and/or making use of the "Compatibility" 
tab in the properties of a shortcut. We have almost no users running in an 
admin account.

However, we do still have a bunch of Win98 systems around!

Software is only supposed to be installed by tech people even if it is 
free/open source.
This happens most of the time. We used to have a lot more computer issues 
caused by users installing (trying to install) software, probably because 
they cannot with a plain old Windows user account!

Diane




At 11:52 AM 5/26/2006 -0400, you wrote:

> >(You mention not writing to the registry, but it's my
> >experience that Power Users can write to the registry.  In fact, Users
> >can write to the registry, but only to the volatile "HKEY_CURRENT_USER"
> >section.)
>
>I meant as a power user people can install most software, except for things
>that need to modify the registry, perhaps what I should have said is as a
>PU people can't install software that needs to modify CERTAIN parts of the
>registry. (not sure which they would be)
>
>Changing folder access permissions is a way I have got thinsg to run, and
>companies often do have pathes to allow their stuff to run for regular user
>in XP.
>
>Local admins have access to all the files on the machine, specifically in
>docs&sett? I will have to check but I am assuming that PowUsers don't. So
>really more of difference (between LA & PU) as a privacy issue than a
>security one.
>
>R.

Diane Stacy, Network Administrator
Barre Supervisory Union #61
155 Ayers Street
Barre, VT 05641

(802)476-4811 ext 169 (Voice mail)
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