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I'm having a problem running an application in Windows 2000 Pro on my son's machine. I have a Kids user set up as a restricted user and the Administrator setup. No other users are setup (other that guests). I've installed a game for my son but it won't launch, I get an Error: Failed to create registry key for Descent 3. All other programs (Microsoft Office 2K, Kodak camera software, etc.) work fine. When I launch the game (Descent 3) logged on as Administrator it works fine. Any ideas?
I've tried to uninstall/reinstall but no luck. This is a fresh install of Windows 2000 Pro and I'm not that familiar with it. I've been running Win98, WinXP Home, & Mandrake 9.1 on my machine.
Mike
Last edited by Xeroid; 7th July 2003 at 04:59.
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OK, I can go back and change the Kids user from a restricted user to a standard user and the game launches fine while logged on as kids. I was hoping to keep my children from hosing things by setting them up with a kids user name with restricted user rights.
Locate the game folder. Then right-click and open properties. Click the security tab and you should see the kids account listed with very restricted access. Click on "modify" and apply the changes. Changes will only take effect on that one folder.
If their account isn't listed in security, add it then make the above changes.
Depending on exactly what the game tries to do, that may fix them up so they can run it. If not, post back. And you will need to be logged on as an administrator to make the changes to folder security.
The kids account was not listed in the properties for the folder in which this game was installed so I added their account and then gave them all rights and ownership of the folder. I still get the "failure to create registry key" error when trying to launch the game if logged in as kids when they are a restricted user. As before, if I go back and change the kids account ot a standard user user all is fine.
To set, view, change, or remove file and folder permissions
Open Windows Explorer, and then locate the file or folder for which you want to set permissions.
Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.
Do one of the following:
To set up permissions for a new group or user, click Add. Type the name of the group or user you want to set permissions for using the format domainname\name, and then click OK to close the dialog box.
To change or remove permissions from an existing group or user, click the name of the group or user.
In Permissions, click Allow or Deny for each permission you want to allow or deny, if necessary. Or, to remove the group or user from the permissions list, click Remove.
Notes
To open Windows Explorer, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
You can set file and folder permissions only on drives formatted to use NTFS.
To change permissions, you must be the owner or have been granted permission to do so by the owner.
Groups or users granted Full Control for a folder can delete files and subfolders within that folder regardless of the permissions protecting the files and subfolders.
If the check boxes under Permissions are shaded, or if the Remove button is unavailable, then the file or folder has inherited permissions from the parent folder. For more information on how inheritance affects files and folders, see Related Topics.
One other thing you could do that will work unless the kid(s) are sharp enough to figure out all the pieces.
- Create a new user account. Give it the same name as the game and enough rights to run the game. Give it a password and again, use the same as the name of the game.
- DO NOT tell the kid(s) that this is a user account they could log on with.
- Create them a shortcut to the game. Right-click on the shortcut, select properties and then advanced. There is an option there for "Run as different user". Check that then OK and apply and OK.
- Any time that shortcut is clicked, it will open a window giving the option to run as a different user (runas) and lines to enter the user name and password. They would pick from the dropdown the one with computername\username, put in the proper password, and the game would be running as if that user had started it rather than the Kids user that is logged on.
By using the game's name for username and password, they probably won't twig to the fact they now know a normal username and password to log on to the computer with but will think you just did something fancy to allow them to run the game. Probably.
And BTW - this works with 2K and XP. The original idea of runas was so an administrator could log on with a normal user account (less dangerous since you couldn't destroy the system by accident) but be able to do any adminstration that was needed by starting whatever utility/application with the admin account and admin rights.
Create them a shortcut to the game. Right-click on the shortcut, select properties and then advanced. There is an option there for "Run as different user".
There are a couple of ways to automate runas so the user does not need to enter a password (or even see what is happening) but they all either require you buy some software or do some script programming. Possible but not worth the effort unless you find your younger users have figured out how to abuse the system.
