Brad,

"OOPS" is right! Do you think this is a mixup within Microsoft or is it just
another ploy to get you to buy the latest MS Money 2002 Deluxe!?

Thanks for pointing out the article.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Loomis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list"
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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: [PCSOFT] Installing Software in Windows XP


> Hi Steve,
> I just came across this subject this morning.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22008.html Apparently Money
> 2001 doesn't work with XP. OOPS!!!!
> Brad Loomis
> Los Angeles, CA
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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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