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by kahunanui

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We're trying to install our Expedia Streets 98 program locally into a Win2k Pro workstation on a Domain. The application will not install without Admin privileges. I've tried a number of ways to enable the user to be able to use the program. I've tried to give the user temporary admin rights, install and then remove the rights. Nothing seems to work. I run across this problem alot but have always been able to get the program installed and running for the user by this method. But in this case,no matter what, the program keeps insisting that it needs to be installed. If I knew where the registry keys and which keys need to be modified, I could change the security on those keys. I am wondering if a full-on network install would be better, but I can't think how it would be different. I don't see the user being able to run that either. Of course MS will no longer support this older app. Does anyone have any ideas that would work? We can find nothing on the CD or anywhere else that would help to solve this problem.

Can anyone offer any ideas to solve this problem?

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by joe.hutchinson1

i had the same problem while letting a user use a program "quickbooks 2002" I had to give them a local admin account. I know this should not work on a domain but it did

by kahunanui

Sorry this has taken so long. A local Admin account is unacceptable with the owners. Also, the Net must be available while the program is running (network printing etc...) so this wouldn't work. Thank you for the response.

by joseph moore

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\STREETS98 is where I would look in the Registry.
I would use REGEDT32, check that Registry branch, and change the Security permissions to include the user who needs this program; give them Full Control rights to the whole branch and all sub-branches.

Hope this helps

by kahunanui

Gave this a shot...the actual key is "Microsoft Expedia Streets 98". In fact we ended up giving permissions to the entire "Software" key etc... no go. The errors did change but it was impossible to run the program. We've never ran into a situationlike this before. We've always been able to get the program/app to run by manipulating the Registry. This one is really stubborn.

by tony

Try giving the user "Full Control" directory permission on the application directory and subs after the user installaiton with Administrative privledge.

by kahunanui

We did this along with the Registry key security changes (please see above). Nothing worked on this program. Guess it just doesn't like Domains.

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