Your wife has to be a power user.
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From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Steve Polatas
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 6:45 AM
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Subject: [PCSOFT] Installing Software in Windows XP
I just bought a laptop with Windows XP Professional for use by my wife and
I. It came with Office XP preinstalled. I set up user accounts for each of
us; my wife as a "limited" user and myself as a "computer administrator".
Both users can access all preinstalled software just fine.
Last night I tried installing MS Money 2001. The program installed fine
while in my user account and I could run it without issue. Switching,
however, to my wife's account resulted in no obvious signs that Money was
installed on the machine. If I navigated to the executable and clicked on
it, nothing happened; no errors, no warnings, nothing. I next tried to
install it while logged in as my wife. When I did that, a dialog box came up
saying that a "computer administrator" is only allowed to install software.
My next step was to try the way you had to install software for everyone in
NT. I logged on as "administrator" and tried the install again. Again, as in
my user account, the software installed fine and ran fine in that account,
but noone else, including my account, could see or run the software. What
gives?
I've done some limited searching on some Microsoft user boards and found
several people asking the same question, but no answers.
Anybody have enough "eXPerience" yet with XP to know the answer to this?
Please cc me directly when responding to the list so I don't have to wait
for the next digest to get answers.
Thanks,
Steve Polatas
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