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by schmoinpueblo

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I am running Windows 2000. After installing certain software it becomes unavailable for non-administrative profiles. After giving permissions to the program folders the program can be loaded. But, it will not remember any changes made to preferences, i. e. tips window always pops up. Need help to configure so that program will save preferences.

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by stillatit

Sounds like trying to install Office 97 on W2K. Here is how we are working around this problem:

On the WS, from the administrator account, right-click My Computer and select Manage. Open Users and Groups, and select Groups. Select the local Administrators group. Click Add. In the domain, select the account of the user who will use the workstation. Add this user (the domain user, not the local user) to the Administrators group. Log off, log in as the domain user, and install the software. When done, take the domain user out of the local administrators group.

If there will be multiple users on the workstation it may be necessary to re-install the software as each user in order to get all of the registry entries correct.

Good luck.

by mike (from canada)

try scanning your disk for errors. you might have some. If you have bad sectors, make sure scandisk repairs them. now u should be able to save your settings. and also, are you trying to save to a write protected file or drive? if so, remove write protection. maybe you are missing DLL files as well.

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