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CD Burner / Administrator Rights

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by gustavo_betancourt

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I installed a CD Burner in a Windows 2000 workstation for one of my users. It is a Sony External ilink CD Burner. If I try to use the CD Burner under a user with "Power User" rights, the software will not work. It will say that there are no DVD or CD drives in the machine. If I log in with an administrator account or give that user administrator rights, then it will work. I do not want to give that user administrator rights. Is there a way around this? Please help.

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by ebob

This depends on the software. Roxio Easy CD Creator (as a not so random example) says that their application MUST be run by the Administrator. According to them, it cannot (or at least, should not) be run by an account that simply HAS Administrativerights.

Is there a way around that? I don't know, quite honestly. I have tried on my W2K with 3 scenarios:
- Adminstrator runs OK
- user with Admin rights ran OK for a while, but when I started having problems, the only way out (including a FULL clean reload of W2K and Roxio!!!) was to have my Administrator account operate the S/W (sheesh!)
- "regular user" did not run from the start (and required another reload of the app.

Is this right? No. FWIW, I believ it is INSANE, and bordering on IRRESPONSIBLE for any application developer to require such things. I consider it a MAJOR FLAW in the application. But of course, Roxio just says: that's the way it is. They have posted a paper somewhere on their website explaining how this is somehow required by a combination of their design and the WinNT/2K file system. If you're interested.

by computerrepairs

Try right clicking on the shout cut on the desktop, in there you should be able to run the application as a different user. Be careful though. You might look in help for something like "run as" or "run as a different user"

Good luck

by mcarswell

If this Is EZ CD Creator 4.* there is a Admin Patch that you will need to install After that patch is install You will need to login one time as the admin and Start the application then you should be able to login as a regular user account and have access to the CD Burner. Let me know if you can not find this patch on their Site and I will see if I have a copy of it, say for 200 points :-)(joke)

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