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by aakash shah 1 view

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I am running XP Pro and I have some games installed on my home PC. However, regular users with standard User permissions are unable to play these games. I must log in as an administrator to play these games. I do not want to give out the admin password, but would like these users to be able to play these games. What can I do to allow this?

Thanks.

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by jose_12650

Type gpedit.exe from run command. Go to Computer Cofiguration/Administrative Templates/Windows Component/Windows Installer, then on the right pane enable Always Install With Elevated Privileges. Perform the same steps on the the User Configuration,then reinstall your game software.

by aakash shah

Thanks for responding Jose. Unfortunately this does not work. I still had to use the admin account to start the software. But thanks for trying!

by aakash shah

Thanks for responding Jose. Unfortunately this does not work. I still had to use the admin account to start the software. But thanks for trying!

by aakash shah

Jose:

Can you post a comment so that I may award the points to you. I incorrectly applied your advice and so it didn't work. But, it is working now.

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