Steve,

Not sure if this will help or not, but I noticed on the Windows Update site
a download to add compatibility to XP for several programs, including
Money.  You might want to check it out.

Jerry

When I opened my mail I noticed that you wrote:
>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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