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by alan.mckeown

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Hi all
I have windows xp installed with myself as administrator and 3 other limited accounts. My kids got some games for Xmas which I loaded. unfortuneately the games require you to be an administrator to run them. There must be a way for the administrator to set limited accounts to run the games as part of administration. Can anyone please help in this matter and guide me in the ways of administration

many thanks

Alan.

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by alan.mckeown

Hi
how do I create a power user?
do this have to be done from the administrator account or from the individual limited accounts?

thanks for the reply

by shauncharles

Just log in as the administrator got to the control panel choose users accounts pick the user you would like to change and click p roperties. Once you click on the properties for that user you will get a group dialog box that pops up and you have three choices, standard user, restricted user, and other. You will want to choose other and in the drop down box you want to choose "power users" this should allow them to play there games.

by jdclyde

The games I have had the same problem with REQUIRE ADMIN rights to the CD drive to verify that it really is there.

They spend millions for security to keep from losing millions. They do create a lot of bad will, so they are making something.

by esfd286

Not sure about XP, but I know in Win2k shortcuts have a checkbox for "Run as Different User" on the shortcut tab. You might want to take a look there.

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